Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lovely landscaped terraces rise in tiers above the swimming pool from where the views are quite superb . |
| 2 | In the early second century women continued to be portrayed with their hair piled in tiers above the brow , but the tightly restrained locks were deeply unflattering in comparison with the coiffures of Flavian portraits . |
| 3 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 4 | During the Saturday morning rehearsal , with Beecham conducting the Vancouver Symphony , the players arranged in tiers from the podium to the back of the stage , a disquieting incident occurred : in the midst of a quiet passage in a Mozart divertimento the tympany player , one George W. Ball , accidentally dropped the cymbal , which rolled down with clanging crashes to rest at the conductor 's feet . |
| 5 | The Germanic mind is highly amenable to the belief in correspondences between the Universe and Man — between microcosm and macrocosm . |
| 6 | LAST month 's improvement in Britain 's huge current account deficit was achieved despite a reduction in projections about the size of the country 's invisible earnings . |
| 7 | However , if there are adverse exogenous shocks to the established unionized sector ( such as a worsening of outside opportunities , an adverse demand shock , or increasing polarization in attitudes to the trade union movement ) , then equilibrium wages and membership may fall below the critical level , and the union vanish from the sector . |
| 8 | The campaigners say the decision could mark a watershed in attitudes to the environment , but the local MP says the traffic problems wo n't go away . |
| 9 | There are thus significant differences between places in voting patterns generally , and in attitudes to the debate about growth and the environment , because social and demographic groups are not evenly distributed across the country . |
| 10 | The struggle of working class women against scarce resources and ill health continued throughout the period , while progress in terms of the reform of property laws relating to married women , of the divorce laws , and the change in attitudes towards the expression of female sexuality within marriage primarily benefited middle class women . |
| 11 | The most significant development in this period was the profound shift in attitudes towards the State : against the exercise of public control and more sympathetic towards the operation of the free market . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents . |
| 13 | This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources . |
| 14 | Others draw back from legislation and look to a change in attitudes on the part of professionals and employers . |
| 15 | These changing attitudes in part reflect changes in attitudes in the world at large but they also stem from the evolution of our concepts of ‘ mind ’ and its possible physical bases . |
| 16 | In patterns through the pear tree on the fence . |
| 17 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |
| 18 | A lovely memory of our weekend at Trouville in June … scene almost unchanged ! ! apart from Japanese businessmen in suits on the sand ! |
| 19 | Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis , but he 'd never carried the vendetta to them . |
| 20 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 21 | in crowds along the shore , |
| 22 | Whether the world 's nations can work together to minimize the adverse consequences of the future rise in global sea level , let alone achieve significant reductions in emissions of the greenhouse gases causing global warming and the associated rising seas , remains to be seen ( refer to chapter 12 ) . |
| 23 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 24 | Urinary α2 -globulin is also involved in hyaline droplet nephropathy , an important toxicological syndrome in male rats resulting from exposure to a number of industrial chemicals and characterized by the accumulation of liganded urinary α2- globulin in lysosomes in the kidney , followed by the induction of renal cancer . |
| 25 | Flora was only a nuisance , stopping after seconds of weeding to write her name in pebbles on the lawn ( all ready for the tender teeth of the mower blades ) or float daisy heads in a puddle , and Peter was never so galvanized by holy necessity calling from the far side of the parish as when the garden was mentioned . |
| 26 | By the end of the eleventh century , the Cluniacs really had begun to reform the consciousness of Europe in institutions like the pilgrimage and the West was ready to embark on its Age of Faith . |
| 27 | Thus it seems likely that examination questions in chemical engineering at degree level will bear certain similarities of form and content , and share certain presuppositions , in institutions throughout the world . |
| 28 | In recent years many British public libraries have increased the proportion of their resources committed to satisfying unexpressed need , by taking staff away from the library base to work in institutions in the community , and by changing the nature of collections to appeal to groups who had not previously seen public libraries as providing a service useful to them . |
| 29 | To keep up with demand , teams of carriers worked in shifts throughout the day . |
| 30 | The relationship between the orientation of alignment of the two sides is normally expressed in hours of the clock . |