Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nivelle 's campaign in Champagne opened on 19 April and met with the same fate as most earlier attacks : some 120,000 Frenchmen fell before the German machine-guns and by the day 's end an advance of only 550m/600yds had been made , in tragic contrast to Nivelle 's expected g.6km/6mls . |
2 | Is not that because many Tory Members are up to their necks in money received for commercial lobbying of one sort or another ? |
3 | While the increase in both these benefits is substantial , it is dwarfed by the increase in money spent on means-tested benefits such as supplementary benefit and housing benefit . |
4 | At a ceremony in Moscow attended by several thousand people , the Memorial organization on Oct. 30 unveiled a monument to the victims of the Stalinist purges . |
5 | The Rive Gauche fascinated me , with its bookstalls ready to yield a treasure-trove to the discerning , sharp-eyed bibliophile ; and I was amused by the artists , painting in attitudes varying from complete absorption to self-conscious posturing bravura . |
6 | But as there must always be some kind of observer-effect in patterns revealed in this analytic way , the position of the observer , and the preconceptions that he or she brings to the act of observing , must be accounted for at every phase of the research . |
7 | In Caithness there are many upright monoliths from the Bronze Age , some standing alone , others in patterns suffused with some ancient significance . |
8 | The club is also responsible for marathon winkle-eating competitions , and its elderly members sometimes appear in suits made of thousands of shells . |
9 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
10 | In a letter to Environment Minister Lord Strathclyde , Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith accepted that sulphur dioxide emissions have been reduced by 45 per cent since 1970 , but pointed out that progress has been haphazard , with reductions in emissions coinciding with economic recession . |
11 | A board of trustees and some parents are involved in decision making at all levels , as well as the full-time management and teaching staff . |
12 | They cite the UGC 's decision on how to make cuts in university spending in 1981 . |
13 | The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds . |
14 | In fact some of our more ancient cities and boroughs have Charters still in existence granted in Saxon times giving to local areas powers which were in effect autonomous government . |
15 | I remembered that Charlie had always wanted to know how prices in Chelsea compared with those in Whitechapel , so I decided to find out for him . |
16 | Workers are not able to choose to trade small adjustments in hours worked against take-home pay . |
17 | Changes in provision arising from strategic plans ; |
18 | The worst of the lodgings in Rhyll consisted of one dirty room with decaying plaster and a leaking roof , over a coal merchant 's in the narrow part of the town . |
19 | The brandy market in Germany accounts for one quarter of spirits sales in that country . |
20 | So while unit labour costs in Germany increased by 3 per cent. , in Britain they increased by 11 per cent . |
21 | The price of developed building land in Germany rose by more than one-third between 1970 and 1972 . |
22 | Repeated involvement in meetings leads to progressive erosion of the personality traits of the disease . |
23 | Removing Southcom headquarters from Quarry Heights , a hill with a commanding view over Panama City and the canal , will still leave 13,000 American troops in Panama dispersed among nine bases . |
24 | Before snow , the area below Bardney Bridge was fishing well for roach to 14 oz in midweek hauls to 13 lb . |
25 | That , that is the , the change in exceptionals compared with nineteen ninety . |
26 | Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex survives from this period ( 482 ) , as does the later moated house of Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk ( 1482 ) . |
27 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
28 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
29 | Yes , we are in close contact with non-governmental organisations , lawyers and Brazilian authorities involved in cases relating to rural violence . |
30 | In cases relating to sexual offences against other persons , consent by the person involved is , of course , a defence provided that person is legally able to give consent . |