Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lovely landscaped terraces rise in tiers above the swimming pool from where the views are quite superb .
2 In the early second century women continued to be portrayed with their hair piled in tiers above the brow , but the tightly restrained locks were deeply unflattering in comparison with the coiffures of Flavian portraits .
3 The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . )
4 During the Saturday morning rehearsal , with Beecham conducting the Vancouver Symphony , the players arranged in tiers from the podium to the back of the stage , a disquieting incident occurred : in the midst of a quiet passage in a Mozart divertimento the tympany player , one George W. Ball , accidentally dropped the cymbal , which rolled down with clanging crashes to rest at the conductor 's feet .
5 In Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls , Dr Schonfield offers a detailed explanation of how precisely the Atbash Cipher works .
6 The Germanic mind is highly amenable to the belief in correspondences between the Universe and Man — between microcosm and macrocosm .
7 LAST month 's improvement in Britain 's huge current account deficit was achieved despite a reduction in projections about the size of the country 's invisible earnings .
8 [ Obituary notice in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , vol. lxxviii , 1884 , pp. 414–16 ; Simon Adamson , Seaside Piers , 1977 ; private information . ]
9 But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it .
10 However , if there are adverse exogenous shocks to the established unionized sector ( such as a worsening of outside opportunities , an adverse demand shock , or increasing polarization in attitudes to the trade union movement ) , then equilibrium wages and membership may fall below the critical level , and the union vanish from the sector .
11 The campaigners say the decision could mark a watershed in attitudes to the environment , but the local MP says the traffic problems wo n't go away .
12 There are thus significant differences between places in voting patterns generally , and in attitudes to the debate about growth and the environment , because social and demographic groups are not evenly distributed across the country .
13 The struggle of working class women against scarce resources and ill health continued throughout the period , while progress in terms of the reform of property laws relating to married women , of the divorce laws , and the change in attitudes towards the expression of female sexuality within marriage primarily benefited middle class women .
14 Part of the answer is provided by variations in attitudes towards the advantages of a welfare state system and specifically towards the major beneficiaries of that system in their context , blacks , especially black , female-headed families .
15 The most significant development in this period was the profound shift in attitudes towards the State : against the exercise of public control and more sympathetic towards the operation of the free market .
16 Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents .
17 This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources .
18 Others draw back from legislation and look to a change in attitudes on the part of professionals and employers .
19 The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations .
20 This has the merit of allowing researchers to identify changes in attitudes among a population in a more reliable way than random sampling where variations might simply be due to variations between samples .
21 These changing attitudes in part reflect changes in attitudes in the world at large but they also stem from the evolution of our concepts of ‘ mind ’ and its possible physical bases .
22 In patterns through the pear tree on the fence .
23 The cloisters ( 1172–89 ) of the abbey church are beautiful ; they are enclosed on four sides by coupled columns of stone and marble , inlaid with brilliantly coloured glass mosaic in patterns on the shafts and have richly varied carved capitals .
24 Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ .
25 Mr Fennell did not believe the change would lead to people being represented in courts by a solicitor only .
26 A lovely memory of our weekend at Trouville in June … scene almost unchanged ! ! apart from Japanese businessmen in suits on the sand !
27 Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis , but he 'd never carried the vendetta to them .
28 Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 .
29 in crowds along the shore ,
30 The Sports Illustrated report confirmed scientists ' suspicions that as many as 600 porpoises each year were dying in entanglements in the Gulf , out of a total population for the East Coast of the US and Canada of perhaps only 8000 .
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