Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual details are vague , but John claims that whereas every other pickup in existence suffers from a muddy , limited response , his design ( available fitted to any guitar , single-coil or humbucking , at a cost of £150 ) gives the first genuinely ‘ full range ’ sound . |
| 2 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 3 | How effective any given synapse is at influencing the postsynaptic neuron in firing depends on a number of factors — how close it is to the cell body , whether it is on the shaft of a dendrite or on one of the many spines , and so forth . |
| 4 | Confusion over whether some sentences like the following are tenseless or " eternal " in part stems from a deep equivocation over the term tense . |
| 5 | A further problem of ageing , which in part follows from a greater life expectancy , relates to retirement . |
| 6 | It is suggested that the way women and black citizens are treated in society and in schools provides for a unity among female students on the one hand and black students on the other . |
| 7 | given that those that are employed today can not be guaranteed to be em to be employed tomorrow and that the three thousand in essence comprises of a constantly changing group of people , I do n't see how anyone can argue that future employment provision is geared towards anybody . |
| 8 | Brazil 's faith in debt/equity swaps as a means of easing the burden has been shared by many . |
| 9 | The dividing line between foregrounding and unmotivated prominence must be drawn in principle : where it is drawn in practice depends on a coherent literary interpretation of style . |
| 10 | Sometimes life in Detroit seems like a grotesque farce . |
| 11 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the change in speed occurs within a couple of trials of changing the magnitude of reward , which is too fast for conventional learning mechanisms . |
| 13 | Redness , on the other hand , which is associated both with the ( destructive ) shedding of blood and with the primordial ties of kinship in blood signifies at a more abstract level discontinuity , disharmony , and might acquired by , and displayed in , breaking the rules of order and harmony . |
| 14 | Police harassment and brutality towards the Black community in Tottenham continues at a shameful level . |
| 15 | Thus there is no evidence over the period from 1963 onwards that the excess found in Seascale extends to a wider area around Sellafield , though for the most recent period there was a slight increase in the incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria , particularly among children aged 0–4 years . |
| 16 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 17 | Indeed the Court of Appeal in Phekoo expressed the opinion that it only applied to rape but I hope that one might interpret that to mean ‘ rape-like offences ’ , that is all offences where the mistake in question relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea . |
| 18 | Apart from the peats which were formed by the anaerobic decomposition of plant life in waterlogged conditions , organic matter in soils consists of a wide variety of living animals and plants , including earthworms , insects , bacteria , plant roots , and fungi , as well as decaying animals and vegetable fibres and wastes . |
| 19 | The D in brackets refers to a wo , a work organiser section of my daytimer which is my marketing section . |
| 20 | There is some authority that , although under English law the assignment of a bankrupt 's property to the trustee in bankruptcy operates as a worldwide assignment of all his property wherever situated ( sections 283 , 306 and 436 ) , the relation back principle applies only to property situated in England : Galbraith v. Grimshaw [ 1910 ] A.C. 508 , especially per Lord Dunedin , at p. 513 . |
| 21 | Growth in nature starts from a seed and flowers into a variety of forms . |
| 22 | It has long been known that phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency exhibits a wide and continuous range of clinical and biochemical severity , varying from a symptomless disorder with phenylalanine accumulation only just greater than in obligate heterozygotes to a severely handicapping condition with plasma phenylalanine concentrations over 20 times normal . |
| 23 | For instance , most of the press was more interested in video nasties as a cause of rape than in deeper structural explanations . |
| 24 | Second , what is the molecular genetic mechanism that in monkeys leads to a near 1:1 ratio but in man to a strong bias in favour of long-wave cones ? |
| 25 | What Mr Eggar really meant to say was that there has recently been a high level of success in finding new oil and gas fields in UK waters during a worldwide downturn in exploration . |
| 26 | The polling factor in cattle arises as a spontaneous mutation once in every 50,000 births anyway , so that there are always likely to be a few naturally polled cattle in any population . |
| 27 | BGS work in Colombia consists of a large mineral exploration project , the Pacific Coast Precious Metals Project , which was completed during the year . |
| 28 | The tour to Chiemsee Castle in Bavaria starts with a picturesque journey via the romantic village of Reit im Winkl to Lake Chiem . |
| 29 | Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR . |
| 30 | She saw an old French dresser with faded photographs in gilt frames under a bed of cobweb . |