Example sentences of "in the [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists . |
| 2 | Do you ever have many , get them ones in the that little house ? |
| 3 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 4 | To be an effective business correspondent one should have a sound knowledge of English , which includes correct spelling , grammar and punctuation , and also be able to construct sentences so that the exact meaning is conveyed in the fewest possible words . |
| 5 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 6 | In the latter two countries there are markedly decentralised union-management structures and a large proportion of collective agreements are made at the enterprise or workplace levels . |
| 7 | ( In the latter two cases ‘ man ’ and ‘ men ’ are generic terms . ) |
| 8 | A voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive girls ' school adopted an admission policy in which the categories for admission were , in order of priority , baptised Roman Catholics , children of baptised Roman Catholics , practising Christians and other Christians , in the latter two cases giving priority to those with sisters at the school . |
| 9 | By the time that the present case had reached the Court of Appeal , as many as 100 injunctions had been granted by judges of the Chancery Division , following the approach of Mervyn Davies J. By that time , too , the decision of the European Court of Justice in the Torfaen case had been followed by its decisions in the Conforama and Marchandise cases ; and it was the contention of the council that the approach of the court in the former case , upon which Wickes relied , had been tacitly abandoned by the court in the latter two cases . |
| 10 | In the latter two cases the objects concerned can be given spatial co-ordinates and thereby unequivocally distinguished from any other particulars of the similar sort . |
| 11 | According to the NRA 's figures , 200,000 tons of nitrogen , 32,000 tons of orthophosphates , 3,000 tons of zinc , 500 tons of copper ( in the latter two cases half of the total ) , 340 tons of lead ( nearly three quarters of the total ) and five tons of mercury flowed into the sea in 1990 . |
| 12 | In the latter two cases the probe distances should be interpreted just as dissimilarities since the probes can not be considered as points in comparison with the clones . |
| 13 | Notice that light is symbolic in the latter two endings of each section , darkness is seen as a kind of death , light , as a sign of hope . |
| 14 | There are however differences between short-distance and long-distance migration , because in the latter economic motives are more likely to be important ( House and Knight 1965 ) . |
| 15 | In the latter local people did not perceive themselves to be involved in assessing need and planning strategies . |
| 16 | The Museum is housed in the former Cambrian mills , built in 1902 , one of the largest factories in the area . |
| 17 | At Penrhyn Castle , in the former stable yard , is an industrial railway museum . |
| 18 | ‘ Like all countries in the former Eastern Bloc , they need advice now that old links with the Soviet system have collapsed . |
| 19 | County councillor John Herbert said : ‘ The visit highlighted the lack of modern technical equipment which is available to fire services in the former Eastern Bloc countries and even the provision of out-dated equipment from this country is an extremely worthwhile and valuable improvement . ’ |
| 20 | In 1966 a broadcast from a neighbouring country reported the killing of Hausas in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria . |
| 21 | The collapse of communism in the former Eastern block and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union represent a major new challenge the governments have had to face . |
| 22 | County Coun John Herbert , Conservative fire brigade spokesman said : ‘ The visit led by the County Fire Officer to St Petersburg highlighted the lack of modern technical equipment which is available to fire services in the former Eastern block countries and even the provision of outdated equipment from this country is an extremely worthwhile and valuable improvement . |
| 23 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 24 | A determined search finally yielded an old lady in the former Grand Hotel , now a residential and nursing home on the front . |
| 25 | May 1986 The Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opens in the former General Hospital of Madrid and Atocha , a Neo-classical building designed by the Italian architect Francesco Sabatini to be even larger than the Escorial , but which never grew beyond pavilions surrounding a large courtyard . |
| 26 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 27 | Even as early as 1887 , however , in the former Dutch East Indies ( at present Indonesia ) , VandeBurg advised a straight fruit diet . |
| 28 | Two-thirds of all members of ethnic minority groups live in the former metropolitan counties of Greater London , West Midlands , West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester ( compared with a quarter of the population as a whole ) . |
| 29 | Since 1964 , however , a number of changes , including the creation of new police liaison committees , the reorganisation of police authorities in the former Metropolitan Counties , and an enhanced role for the National Reporting Centre during the miners ' strike , have transformed the context of decision-making about policing . |
| 30 | In London responsibility for around two-thirds of GLC spending , and in the former metropolitan county areas about half , was transferred to non-departmental bodies or central departments ( Dunleavy and Rhodes , 1987 , p. 23 ) . |