Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are certain exceptions to the general rule in virtue of the provisions of s.138(1) , namely trafficking in liquor in services ' canteens , theatres erected before January 1 , 1904 , or with passengers on vessels , aircraft , or railway passenger vehicles . |
| 2 | These parents were initially delighted last year when the local council announced that , in response to parents ' campaigning for a nursery class , all four-year-olds would be offered a school place . |
| 3 | They also belong to an enjoying retirement group run by Network , a local community organisation , which arranges outings , debates , and lectures in response to members ' ideas . |
| 4 | The campaign started a fortnight ago in response to residents ' complaints of nuisances caused by large scale cockling operations . |
| 5 | Did nudes in the tabloid press proliferate in the 1970s in response to readers ' demands , or were readers ' expectations aroused by the supply , as a marketing device ? |
| 6 | Mr Welsh said that in response to reporters ' questions he had refused to rule out any tactic because the party had not decided what its strategy on civil disobedience might be . |
| 7 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 8 | For example , in the FRN market there have been perpetual ( i.e. non-redeemable ) FRNs , and variable rate notes — stimulated in part by banks ' capital needs following the Basle agreement on capital adequacy . |
| 9 | In contrast to historians ' accounts of international events , or indeed the actors ' views of their own contribution as recorded in their autobiographies , International Relations theories have usually put most emphasis on impersonal units and forces . |
| 10 | From the results obtained , it is clear that , in addition to visitors ' general interest in the exhibitions and their content ( either because they dealt with topics already of concern to the viewers , or because of their Scottish , or , indeed , local connexions ) , there were a number of features with particularly appealed , including the informative nature of the exhibitions , the layout and presentation of the exhibits , the presentation of original documents , and the presence of photographs and artefacts . |
| 11 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 12 | Two other case-control studies have not found evidence of an increased risk of leukaemia in association with fathers ' preconceptual exposure to external ionising radiation . |
| 13 | The balance in excess of £5m would be raised in proportion to members ' subscriptions . |
| 14 | There were 5 18 seats in all , shared out in proportion to members ' population size . |
| 15 | A solicitor in receipt of directors ' fees from his family company , however , would be under no duty to account to his co-partners in the absence of express agreement to that effect . |
| 16 | Banks must rearrange their assets to restore the original equilibrium by drawing notes and coin from the Bank of England , in exchange for bankers ' deposits . |
| 17 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 18 | Trace through the effects of a squeeze on the monetary base from an initial reduction in cash to banks ' liquidity being restored by the rediscounting of bills . |
| 19 | Co-ordination between subjects was lacking and the whole overloaded and exceptionally ambitious in scope requiring , moreover , a scale of expenditure well in excess of schools ' ability to pay for it . |
| 20 | The limit in respect of visitors ' personal effects is increased from £100 to £250 . |
| 21 | Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ? |
| 22 | the financial statements comply with Sch 6 of the Companies Act 1985 in respect of directors ' emoluments and other transactions involving directors ; |
| 23 | While the uncovered debts of the banks in respect of residents ' foreign exchange deposits are known more or less precisely , the amount of the banks ' other uncovered foreign liabilities is a matter of guesswork . |
| 24 | Payments may also be made by companies in respect of expatriates ' properties in the home country . |
| 25 | However , my master plan is invariably dropped in favour of readers ' questions . |
| 26 | We may agree with Cole 's conclusion that the resolution of the debate in favour of Consumers ' control was right at the time , but on ground of practical necessity . |
| 27 | The largest had been Gorky ( renamed in 1932 after the writer Maxim Gorky ) , which had reverted to the name Nizhny Novgorod by decree of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Oct. 23 , 1990 , in compliance with residents ' demands . |
| 28 | The NSF 's earlier decision to abolish the death penalty had been confirmed by Iliescu in his New Year 's broadcast to the Romanian people on Jan. 1 , " in order to stress the profoundly popular and humanist character of the new regime " and in compliance with students ' proposals that " the two dictators [ i.e. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ] were the last persons who deserved this fate " . |
| 29 | All work processed at the Company is tracked by computer , and all parts are accompanied by work control documents , in compliance with customers ' requirements . |
| 30 | Despite an agreement reached in late August that files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would remain in East Germany after unification [ see p. 37661 ] , the question in particular of MPs ' and ministers ' alleged Stasi involvement remained a major issue . |