Example sentences of "of [noun] in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the polling organisations , like our own private polling , demonstrate a very great firmness of support in those who say thus far that they are going to be voting Labour , and softness in Conservative support . ’ |
| 2 | Finally , with Nick Cave 's misogynist agonies , the Jesus and Mary Chain 's candyskin classicism , and The Smiths ' eternally unrequited gaze , came the return of romanticism in all its purity and privacy . |
| 3 | 22 per cent of the overall decline in mortality from 1848 to 1971 have been attributed to the decline of TB in all its forms ( McKeown 1976 ) , and 45 per cent to 1900 . |
| 4 | The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed . |
| 5 | It differs from the rest of Newham in that it is less typically an inner-city area and rather more middle class with few tower blocks and a higher proportion of owner-occupied housing . |
| 6 | While mayor of Hull in 1795 he presented in person the congratulatory addresses from the Hull Corporation and Trinity House to George III , following the king 's escape from an attack by the London mob protesting against the French wars and the price of bread . |
| 7 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 8 | For much of the 1970s investment in manufacturing had remained fairly constant , but with the onset of recession in 1979 it declined sharply , making the largest single contribution to the overall fall in GDFCF . |
| 9 | Global warming may have been a contributory factor in the outbreak of a malaria epidemic in the highlands of Madagascar in 1988 which killed 25,000 people . |
| 10 | Mosca uses the term ‘ ruling class ’ to denote the permanent group of organised rulers in society , but his use of the term ‘ class ’ introduces an element of confusion in that his ‘ ruling class ’ is very different in its functions and internal characteristics from those of the Marxist usage . |
| 11 | Oh it 's got lot 's of animals in this one |
| 12 | Similarly , the proportion of school-leavers in 1985–86 who had obtained at least one ‘ A ’ Level stood at 23.5 per cent for the South East compared with barely 16 per cent for the Northern Region . |
| 13 | In the terms established earlier this , like the Monadology itself , seems an unsatisfactory account of consciousness in that it ignores the unity principle , for what that is worth . |
| 14 | It would indeed have defined a biological category of criminals , but as an explanation of crime in general it would have been virtually irrelevant . |
| 15 | ‘ The mindless violence , the personal attacks and injury , ’ asserted Philip Knights , President of the Association of Chief Police Officers , ‘ and above all the use of violence in all its forms to further political creeds , are relatively new to the streets of this country . ’ |
| 16 | An editorial committee has been formed to continue this project , and it has appointed Dr Malcolm editor of the next volumes in the series : an edition of Leviathan in both its original texts ( English and Latin ) , and what will be the first collected edition of Hobbes ' correspondence . |
| 17 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 18 | The boy , aged between seven and ten years , is wanted to play the part of Bert in All My Sons , which opens on October 7 for a three week run . |
| 19 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 20 | Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information . |
| 21 | San Gimignano is slightly apart from the other cities of Tuscany in that it seems to have had a relatively small element of hereditary feudal warriors among its citizens or in its contado . |
| 22 | Henry III was also ‘ lavish in grants of liberties scarcely to be distinguished from complete disafforestments ’ , such as the grant of right of chase in all his lands , within and without the forest , to the Bishop of Winchester . |
| 23 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 25 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of bottles in that one prefer the Christmas one they 're the most bottles , I won a bottle of sherry I did n't thing last year everybody wine |
| 27 | M&A work is different to many other more traditional types of work in that it normally concludes in a completion meeting . |
| 28 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 29 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |
| 30 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |