Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 2 | It is noticeable , however , that the shift came nowhere near eradicating disparities in regional employment opportunities which were heavily influenced by the high degree of concentration of the old staple industries : thus , at the extremes , unemployment in London and the South-East was 56% of the UK rate in 1973 and in the North 174% . |
| 3 | The frequency of ‘ pouchitis ’ in ulcerative colitis patients who have colectomy and pouch construction contrasts with the apparent rarity of pouchitis in patients who have the same operation for familial polyposis . |
| 4 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 5 | Thus these issue networks provide a kind of intellectual community in specific policy fields which to some extent transcends traditional political boundaries between Congress and the executive and between the layers of government in the American federal system ( this is examined in more detail in chapter 16 ) . |
| 6 | Third , high social service expenditure has resulted in high taxation rates which , in turn , have undermined both work incentives and business initiative and fuelled inflation . |
| 7 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 8 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 9 | But the 15 per cent fall in Allied 's pre-tax profits , mostly a result of disastrous dabbling in foreign exchange markets which lost £150 million , leaves the company vulnerable . |
| 10 | If a country faces a current account deficit due to a sudden rise in the value of its imports , there will be an increased supply of the domestic currency in foreign exchange markets which should depreciate the exchange rate . |
| 11 | Martin always starts by working out the elements in detailed pencil drawings which become works in their own rights , before lightly sketching in the compositions for his paintings |
| 12 | Eckersley himself for a time worked for Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , joining the New Party and involving himself subsequently in commercial broadcasting schemes which interested Mosley also . |
| 13 | Table 8.1 summarises some research on grammatical features in different sign languages which are also found in BSL and which have been discussed in this book . |
| 14 | But we do not know , for example , the density of farms necessary in different hill areas which have to be retained to achieve the commitment to mutual support , the retention of service industries and the social cohesion which will ensure survival of rural communities . |
| 15 | Women and men respond to material pressures on their speech , and these pressures are different because — outside a tiny elite anyhow — women and men participate in different status hierarchies which are not readily comparable . |
| 16 | In this population women who had had hysterectomy were more constipated than women with an intact uterus assessed by several criteria : more infrequency of defecation and slower transit time ( in older women ) , more straining at stool by both report and record , and a greater tendency to regard themselves as constipated . |
| 17 | The University has invested heavily in networked microcomputer laboratories which include PCs , Mac and Unix workstations which are now established across most of the campus . |
| 18 | In contrast there is a much smaller number of people in selling jobs ( cars , real estate ) and in some service professions who will respond over and over again , year-on-year , to performance-related payments of money . |
| 19 | Well no if you tried to then you , you 'd be in some difficulty rules which , you know |
| 20 | Although in some subject areas there were complaints that proposals from the colleges were too ‘ traditional ’ ( and a belief by some colleges that this was the best way to ensure success with the ‘ traditional ’ members of subject boards ) , there were developments unrelated to specific subjects that were new and — in validation terms — difficult . |
| 21 | But , the critic may sense , in some subject areas it is simply not appropriate to expect students to form a view of their own . |
| 22 | Solicitors regularly appear as advocates in the lower courts and , by special hat of the Lord Chancellor , in some Crown Courts which are geographically remote from barristers ' chambers . |
| 23 | In some language schools it is possible to give the camera a different function : it is handed over to student groups to be used as a tool in project work . |
| 24 | In some point groups there are symmetry species which are associated with neither IR nor Raman activity . |
| 25 | Multi-form Index Pages In some LIFESPAN options which require a large range of information to be entered , a number of pages may be necessary to obtain the input data . |
| 26 | This renewed hopes of an early cut in German interest rates which would provide us with scope to follow them down . |
| 27 | THE stock market received a lift today on news of a cut in German interest rates which raised hopes of a similar reduction in this country over the next few weeks by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke . |
| 28 | Oh I 've not thought about , I tell you I looked in British Home Stores they had these |
| 29 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 30 | Less work has been carried out on copper , but the little that has ( e.g. Manser 1977 , pp. 22–3 ) indicates a very wide range of composition , matched by the range found in Roman copper alloys which may suggest extensive use of scrap such as that found in bags accompanying skeletons ( Myres 1978 ) . |