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

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1 In many groups of companies , financial , banking , legal , computer and other services are provided centrally to the whole group .
2 Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds .
3 Transduction of genetic information by bacteriophages occurs in many groups of bacteria .
4 In many stories of contests such as these , each contestant struggles to learn the identity of the other .
5 In many contests between insects and their fungal parasites the insects do not fare well .
6 The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films .
7 Aberdeen has been nick-named the ‘ Granite City ’ , since the local granite rock is quarried and shipped for buildings , bridges and harbour works in many towns of Britain .
8 Until recently , similar bull-running was an annual festivity in many towns in Britain and prohibited by Parliament only early in 1835 .
9 In 1968 it became clear that the stone wall had been preceded , as in many towns in Britain , by an earthwork , with a date of construction in the late second or early third century .
10 In 1858 one of a missionary deputation to the North wrote of Portadown : ‘ Here Methodism is stronger in proportion to the population than in any other town in Ireland , or indeed that in many towns in England .
11 It interests me not a little that Sheridan Le Fanu should have found in Dublin sufficient inspiration to write the story of a horrendous shark-like sorceress : Carmilla 's real name was , with appropriate euphony , Countess Karnstein , and when her grave was excavated , her body was found to float in many inches of blood .
12 Copper mineralisation occurs in many areas of Britain .
13 Lead and zinc mineralisation occurs in many areas of Britain .
14 It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain .
15 Avoidance is a grey area at the boundaries of legality and illegality , and though it is an approach employed in many areas of law , it is nowhere more clearly institutionalised than in tax law .
16 Memoirs , biographies , letters didactic works , newspapers , fiction , ephemera and relics of the changing life-style will be explored to identify the new concerns and responses in many areas of life , intra-family and intra-personal relationships , perceptions of the individual 's obligations to society and state , religions and cultural sensibilities and the image of the good life .
17 The rapid introduction of microelectronics-based technologies has been widely predicted to bring about profound changes in many areas of life .
18 Unfortunately , in present-day India , despite its openness in many areas of government and its generally good record on human rights , the state of the prisons remains a rather shameful secret , surfacing now and then , but basically an issue in which neither the politicians , nor the vocal pressure groups , nor the public , have an abiding interest or concern .
19 This means that multi-dimensional scaling has applications in many areas of work , as we can see from the following examples .
20 Despite the widespread use of computers in many areas of work , there is unfortunately a significant degree of misunderstanding concerning them .
21 Farmers are under pressure from tough legislation in many areas of agriculture , but nowhere more so than in slurry disposal .
22 The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service .
23 Then there is the common bracken , a fern which covers the hillsides in many areas of Europe .
24 Commentators such as Brockway ( 1932 ) found appalling rural housing conditions in many areas of England between the wars : dwellings were in physically poor condition and insanitary , lacking water , electricity , ventilation or light .
25 His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’
26 They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated to this area .
27 They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated .
28 In this section we present ( essentially ) two number-theoretic results of which much use is made in many areas of mathematics .
29 The equipment can be useful in many areas of research and industry — from equipping robots with ‘ eyes ’ to analysing the human body .
30 These will give the effect of the dense reeds which grow in many areas of East Asia .
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