Example sentences of "in [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is profitable to consider another pavement ( the Great Witcombe mosaic ) in regard to the two Leicester mosaics , but the evidence for further , unitary , affinity here appears to be less convincing . |
| 2 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 3 | Four monologues begin at once , with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant , rushing rows of dots . |
| 4 | John Richards , a top City retail analyst , explains : ‘ The most important development in retailing in the 1980s was the deep-discount warehouse format . |
| 5 | The limitations of summary statistics are well known , but less attention has been paid to the changes in ranking between the two distributions . |
| 6 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 7 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 8 | For the Aplysia group , the first neurochemical task was to identify the transmitter involved in signalling between the two cells , which turned out to be the ubiquitous substance serotonin ( sometimes called 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT ) . |
| 9 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 10 | Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability . |
| 11 | Valtr Komarek and Jan Carnogursky were demoted from First Deputy Premier to Deputy Premier ( because there was no point in differentiating between the two levels of post , according to Marian Calfa , the Federal Premier ) . |
| 12 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 13 | In comparing of the two liberal democratic party systems of Great Britain and the United States , let us first outline what it is that parties in liberal democracies are said to do . |
| 14 | There was some discussion on the difference in grading between the two posts . |
| 15 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |
| 16 | Indeed , most grammarians claim that there is absolutely no difference in meaning between the two constructions , the only contrast being that the bare infinitive is more colloquial , or more American ( cf. |
| 17 | Such uses suggest very strongly that there is in fact a difference in meaning between the two constructions . |
| 18 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |
| 19 | The difference in meaning between the two coincides therefore with the distinction already made between to infinitives evoking their event as a " subsequent potentiality " and those evoking it as a " subsequent actualization " . |
| 20 | A number of scholars up to the present have held that Mozart intended no difference in meaning between the two symbols . |
| 21 | There would have been no pleasure or satisfaction in shooting in the 80s . ’ |
| 22 | Details of these , and other documents , can be found in Shopping in the 80s : a Guide to Sources and Information , by D A Kirby ( British Library Science Reference and Information Service : London , Feb 1988. 58pp ) . |