Example sentences of "in [art] [det] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 2 | How avoid lending multinationals a green gloss in the few areas where they are performing well , while they otherwise continue in their evil ways ? |
| 3 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 4 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 5 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 6 | The statements with which respondents were invited to entirely agree , agree with qualification , or disagree , were : ( 12 ) Dreams only occur in the few moments before you wake up . |
| 7 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 8 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 9 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 10 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 11 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 12 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 13 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |
| 14 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 15 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 16 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 18 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 19 | Could it be that ? she wondered , in the few seconds before he spoke . |
| 20 | She felt a flood of heat as he stared down at her , felt the deepening intensity of his gaze on her in the few seconds before his mouth descended slowly to take possession of her lips . |
| 21 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 22 | If , for example , the intervention is to run for six weeks , the parents should stop after that time and then repeat the baseline measurements in the same conditions as before . |
| 23 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 24 | After two days which give them time to gain maximum strength they are taken back and released in the same areas as the eggs were collected . |
| 25 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 26 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 27 | Section 239 , concerned with preferences , applies in the same circumstances as section 238 . |
| 28 | With one exception , the right of stoppage in transit is lost in the same circumstances as is the seller 's lien . |
| 29 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |
| 30 | To perform these pieces in the same circumstances as Byrd would have done round a table with friends is to take the quest for authenticity to its logical conclusion . |