Example sentences of "in [noun pl] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This contributed towards the shift in policies of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 2 | Part B noted " with regret " the participation of South Africa in meetings of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties . |
| 3 | By the year 1914 , Freud and Jung , having worked together , through correspondence and in meetings of the Psychoanalytic Association , began to diverge . |
| 4 | There is no evidence that a rise in cases of the fatal brain illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( CJD ) over the past two years is linked to eating meat infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) , according to the UK Department of Health . |
| 5 | The Ganges river dolphin and other endangered species of Nepal feature in Defenders of the Wild on the 26th . |
| 6 | In discussions of the recent Italian novel , however , most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future , but of the past . |
| 7 | This is not just because of the increasing domination of the visual over other media , as reiterated ad nauseam in discussions of the postmodern world , but is , more importantly , due to the specific characteristics of film . |
| 8 | The writing is straightforward and generally very accessible , although it is sometimes prone to metaphorical entanglements in discussions of the big picture , Spider lovers will enjoy an amazing abundance of spidery puns ; the title is only the beginning . |
| 9 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 10 | Finally , one must look for some representation in accounts of the personal style deemed appropriate in an encounter in a given type of situation . |
| 11 | A second major area of functionalist thinking is in accounts of the legal system which are based on Marx 's base — superstructure metaphor ( Cohen , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most significant figures in the survey are those indicating the characteristics that men and women see in drivers of the opposite sex . |
| 14 | These conferences were then followed by a Green Paper which contained a diagnosis of curricular problems in schools , namely , the lack of attention to basic skills and the lack of awareness in schools of the economic needs of the country . |
| 15 | The daughter of Bustino appeared to have no chance at halfway on that first outing , since she was well in arrears of the front-running hot-pot Hawker Hunter . |
| 16 | These things grind exceeding slow , but in Denver , Colorado , charges have finally been brought against Q T Wiles , the former chairman of MiniScribe Corp , accusing him of a scheme to inflate the figures in books of the disk-drive maker : the US District Court indictment alleges that Wiles reaped $1.7m in profits from the sale of MiniScribe stock using inside information about the now-defunct disk company . |
| 17 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) considered that O. clavigera is possibly distinct from Ophiomitrella cordifera , pointing out that the difference in shapes of the oral shield and disk spinelets could warrant specific distinction . |
| 18 | But another set of presidential advisers , based not in the Kremlin but in offices of the Russian government , are engaged in daily trench warfare with the conservative apparatchiks who still run the bureaucracy . |
| 19 | In order to offer the benefits outlined above , however , they will have to be in sectors of the local economy that are growing . |
| 20 | In the blowfly Phormia this system helps to regulate feeding : a group of 4–8 neurons are located in branches of the median abdominal nerve and respond to changes in the volume of the crop ( Gelperin , 1971a , b ) . |
| 21 | His output was immense : bibliographies in his Festschrift , Remember the Days ( 1966 ) , and in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society , vol. xxv ( 1977 ) list 779 items by him , including translations of his works . |
| 22 | [ J. C. Whitebrook in Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society , vol. xiii , 1937–9 ; A. B. Beaven , The Alderman of London , 1908 ; Valerie Pearl , London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution , 1961 . ] |
| 23 | We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics ; the general provisions are typical of what is available in countries of the Western world . |
| 24 | As a legal category , ‘ international judicial assistance ’ is perhaps better known in countries of the civil law tradition than those of the common law . |
| 25 | If childbearing were restricted to ages 20–34 , the consequent five per cent reduction in child mortality would have little aggregate effect in countries of the Caribbean region and some in East Asia , where mortality is comparatively low , but at rates of 250 and more child deaths per 1,000 population aged 0–4 years , as in several countries of the Africa and Indean Ocean regions , this could represent a considerable number of deaths averted . |
| 26 | Tropical diseases are encountered not only in countries of the developing world , but on an increasing scale also in the more affluent parts of the world due to an exponential increase in travel during the past decades . |
| 27 | Tropical diseases are encountered not only in countries of the developing world , but on an increasing scale also in the more affluent parts of the world due to an exponential increase in travel during the past decades . |
| 28 | Once you can sail round a triangle ( level 2 ) you learn best with lots of practice on the water in winds of the right strength . |
| 29 | Geophysical work covered 16 separate areas , and details of the results , where appropriate , are included in descriptions of the relevant projects . |
| 30 | Bile acid malabsorption may be involved in the development of chronic diarrhoea in disorders of the terminal ileum , ileal resected patients , and in several clinical conditions including postcholecystectomy , post vagotomy , and functional and idiopathic diarrhoea . |