Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One area of driving research which has produced some serendipitous results bearing on drivers ’ memory in normal situations results from attempts to investigate drivers ’ perception of traffic signs ( e.g. Johansson & Backlund , 1970 ; Johansson & Rumar , 1966 ; Luoma , 1988 , 1991 ; MacDonald & Hoffmann , 1991 ; Milosevic & Gajic , 1986 ) .
2 MMT Computing Plc reduced its stake in Total Systems Plc to under 3% .
3 The family keeps warm in striking sweaters hand-knitted in Rowan yarns .
4 The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual .
5 In rural areas ownership of cattle was also a barometer of status .
6 The STV system , it is argued , could threaten the essential link between an elector and his MP given that it would necessitate in rural areas constituencies of massive size .
7 In enclosed basins water-loading by lakes may further contribute to subsidence , though their effect will be far more ephemeral than sediment loading as they are likely to undergo repeated phases of growth and desiccation due to changes in climate .
8 The matter came before the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Associated Newspapers plc v Wilson [ 1992 ] 455 , Industrial Relations Legal Intelligence Bulletin 7 .
9 Yet it is clear in references to natural justice that our conception of law is bound up with ideas of notice , fair hearing , representation and open judgment , aspects of which have been denied in the admission of children to the care of the state , and particularly in parental rights resolutions by local authorities .
10 In being ambitious in specific spheres men in the external world have only limited pleasures whereas if one embraces the whole of nature more can be enjoyed .
11 European volunteer workers were recruited by the British government from amongst the large refugee population in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Austria at the end of the Second World war .
12 The imbalance of supply and demand in popular fields results in Chairs setting guideline conditions to be met — for example , in order to get a favourable decision the student must not merely pass the field 's compulsory modules but should achieve grades of say , B , B , and B+ .
13 He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan .
14 If Stockton , Langbaurgh and Hartlepool follow suit , the need to train and register bouncers could be incorporated in public entertainments licences by April next year .
15 Seventeen people died in armed clashes in Palestinian-controlled areas east of Sidon on Feb. 15 , when members of Fatah suppressed a rebellion by other Fatah regulars who were refusing to hand over their positions to the Lebanese army .
16 Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ .
17 If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night .
18 But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification .
19 Intraluminal gall bladder pressure was recorded in anaesthetised guines pigs in response to cholecystokinin or bethanechol before and after treatment with specific NO synthase inhibitors ( N G -nitro-L-arginine , N G -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester , or N G -monomethyl-L-arginine ) , or with a NO donor ( sodium nitroprusside ) .
20 In Lindgren 's 1978 survey on user education in liberal arts colleges in the USA half the respondents had tried to evaluate the outcome of their instruction .
21 The C t 's are an increasing positive sequence converging to so in early periods players of all types imitate z = 0 by setting low values for , thus building a reputation .
22 In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together .
23 The Warnock Report ( Department of Education and Science , 1978 ) stresses that there are already in ordinary classes children with special educational needs whose difficulties are not evident as severe physical or sensory handicaps .
24 The technology is hierarchical , with the manufacturer producing his output using labour alone ( c m per unit ) and the retailer — the second stage — using in fixed proportions purchases from the manufacturing sector and labour ( c r per unit ) .
25 Similarly , where in different strata of the same excavation or in separate sites discontinuities in the styles of artefacts occur , these indicate that different manufacturing communities are involved .
26 In individual constituencies grievances with the established political parties have to be very deeply felt , and very widely shared , to upset the normal national electoral swings .
27 The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform .
28 In official publications types of manual job are usually distinguished according to levels of skill , with separate categories being used for the unskilled , semi-skilled and skilled manual worker .
29 ( 2B ) For the purposes of this Act , the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following ( among others ) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods — ( a ) fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied , ( b ) appearance and finish , ( c ) freedom from minor defects , ( d ) safety , and ( e ) durability .
30 The primary visual cortex is surrounded by many secondary visual regions that seem to deal with special qualities of the image such as colour and movement , and in theory much could be achieved by assembling in appropriate ways information about the occurrence of different trigger features .
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