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

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1 We can see part of the answer by looking at how modern DNA molecules cooperate in the chemical factories that are living cells .
2 For Canguilhem the history of a concept will have its own specific temporality , demonstrating less a process of epistemological self-correction as in the pure sciences than the persistence of the problem within all the contradictory solutions and ideological values that have been given to it and which make up its history .
3 In the 1970s Abrams and colleagues carried out the ‘ Street studies ’ of neighbouring and subsequently reviewed neighbourhood care schemes .
4 The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers .
5 Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing .
6 These include the reduction in the legal immunities and rights of trade unions , rejection of formal incomes policy , and the tripartite style of decisionmaking , according priority to the abatement of inflation , even with unemployment at over three million , privatization of state industries and services , changes in the framework in which many public services are carried out , interventions in local government structure and imposition of far-reaching controls over its finance , changes in the welfare state , and open hostility to the civil service and large parts of the public sector .
7 Solicitors are frequently appointed not only in the legal departments but in the secretarial departments of large concerns ; but a person who intends to go for a secretarial department would be better advised to obtain a secretarial rather than a legal qualification ( to have both would , of course , be best of all ) .
8 She was just putting in the final sutures when Joanna returned , looking triumphant .
9 She would have especially wanted to know more of her own mother , whose story is told in the final chapters and who died in 1903 of peritonitis when the author was 10 days old .
10 In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender …
11 It was in the final seconds that Morris hurried a clearing kick to touch which fell tantalisingly short .
12 He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he span off the rain-soaked track on the last lap .
13 He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he slid off the track on the last lap .
14 In the final days before they met , Mother 's face began to harden when she sat and watched Boy and O , as if she was trying to push them together by sheer force of will power .
15 The 16-point plan presented by the rebels at this meeting had been rejected by the government , but on Oct. 15 Chissano announced that MNR rebels would be allowed to stand in the 1991 elections if they renounced violence and laid down their arms .
16 The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged .
17 The garden is on sandy soil ( those monks did not like damp chasubles ) , and in the accumulated rocks and rubble of the old buildings water simply disappears .
18 The race was won by an Aston Martin DB4 and the Guisborough duo came sixth in the overall concours and fourth in their class of 1,000–1,300cc grand touring sports cars .
19 If one has not got a keen interest in the overall aims and objects of a particular body , then it is unlikely that its A.G.M. will be a terrific draw .
20 what is happening in the immediate surroundings when the word is produced .
21 The charms of Lochinver are not found in the village , however , but in the immediate environs and in the hinterland .
22 One very influential form of the belief in the equal rights or worth of each person was found in utilitarianism , which in its democratic version attached equal weight to the happiness and suffering of each individual .
23 From the start and in the course of its development , industrial development was distinctive , not least because its rapid phase from 1870 onwards coincided with a prolonged agricultural depression in the eastern counties and a collapse of staple industries in East London .
24 Whether this comes from the apparent tolerance in the Eastern religions or from the Western dismissal of absolutes , the relativism of modern truth has a strongly corrosive effect on historic Christian conviction .
25 Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy .
26 The Industrial Revolution brought about educational awareness in the working classes and the government started to give small amounts of funding to the schools run by charitable religious societies in 1833 .
27 For example , two colossal standing figures that are among the museum 's Nubian treasures will remain in the Egyptian galleries until a system can be devised to shore up the structure .
28 In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry .
29 In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity .
30 Schoolchildren may be maypole dancing or in the procession in fancy dress , local groups and societies enter floats , others may be involved in the fund-raising events that take place throughout the year or senior citizens may be invited to the ‘ old folks tea and treat ’ ( which takes place on the Monday ) , organised by the maypole committee and an important part of the May weekend .
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