Example sentences of "[noun sg] found in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A defeatist , appeasement-like attitude often was at the heart of federalist thinking found in some parts of the City of London but is repudiated by those such as Professor Tim Congdon in the Sunday Telegraph on 20 October 1991 — ‘ City 's Silly Euro-scare ’ .
2 The two basic forms of irony found in these tales are verbal irony and dramatic irony .
3 This rather formal term found in Scottish English is often used in academic writing in Scotland , and would seem to be a clear case of dialectal variation between different standard academic registers .
4 The next terrane to arrive , some 90 million years ago , was a mish-mash of rocks referred to by the Indian name ‘ Yolla Bolly ’ , a collection of coarse grained sandstone rock found in various parts of Northern and central California .
5 That people delight in and desire the excitement and sensual pleasure found in sexual contact , food , bathing and money is an essential and straightforward assumption made in the fabliaux .
6 If we decide what behaviour we want and how we will assess it , and then reward that behaviour when it occurs ( a practice found in any family ) , then we have a chance of pleasing both individual and organization .
7 It asks how far the jobless attempt to maintain traditional roles , whether by legal or illegal means , and looks at the different sources of pressure and aid found in this village .
8 Ignorance is not a credible excuse and any practitioner found in serious breach of regulations — which have been with us now for more than four years — can expect the Joint Monitoring Unit to be less than sympathetic .
9 Pore-canals are absent from the rubber-like cuticle found in some insects .
10 From the polytechnic , the court was told , Bedworth had been able to hack into computer systems all around the world using his microcomputer — a type found in many schools — as a master terminal .
11 ‘ Organic ’ does not , in chemical jargon , mean biological ; it means of the type found in living creatures .
12 Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 .
13 But no Romanized townships sprang up ; there were no farmstead villas of the type found in southern Britain ; and the sheer cost in fortification , roadworks and supplies required to maintain a presence in such bleak and unrewarding country finally defeated even the most assiduous empire-builders .
14 A benign human papillomavirus ( type 6 or 11 ) was the only virus type found in one patient and was found in conjunction with oncogenic virus types in another three patients .
15 Less work has been carried out on copper , but the little that has ( e.g. Manser 1977 , pp. 22–3 ) indicates a very wide range of composition , matched by the range found in Roman copper alloys which may suggest extensive use of scrap such as that found in bags accompanying skeletons ( Myres 1978 ) .
16 In the present chapter , a brief account of the historical background to contemporary consumption will be followed by a resumé of some of the approaches to this issue found in various disciplines , one of which , the tradition stemming from Veblen 's work on goods as the expression of social differentiation , will be discussed in more detail .
17 Apart from the obvious literary currency of descriptions of this sort , it is significant that a garden , palace , or type of paradise is always associated with the sleeping king or emperor , for this is the ancient motif found in classical mythology of the Titan Cronos , ruling in the Golden Age .
18 Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise .
19 Unless this attention is given , practitioners will be unwittingly reinforcing the widespread depressed level of desire found in elderly clients .
20 They informed to curry favour and to build up credit against being informed on themselves , but also out of ambition , spite , jealousy and almost every other nasty motive found in human nature .
21 Pale forms usually lack breast band found in other skuas and have dark body .
22 The hydroxyl radical can attack and damage almost every molecule found in living cells , including proteins , carbohydrates , lipids , and DNA .
23 The Mayor could also sit as coroner upon any body found in these waters .
24 The changes in n3 and n6 polyunsaturated fatty acid profile found in inflammatory bowel disease may be of relevance in the pathogenesis of the disease because they influence either tissue eicosanoid synthesis and the membrane lipid composition of the immunocompetent cells .
25 The Chemistry courses in Edinburgh reflect the breadth of the subject and over the four years the topics covered range from the molecules of nature found in biological systems through a wide range of organic , inorganic and physical chemistry to fundamental properties of atoms and molecules .
26 Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , " The four wishes of St Martin " , a fabliau found in four manuscripts , one copy being an Anglo-Norman version in an English manuscript , represents a distinctive subset of fabliaux with a supernatural and religious setting .
27 For example , if your first number is five , move to circle five and follow any instruction found in that circle .
28 These are not the expensive-looking , beautifully crafted works of art found in old school laboratories .
29 Before a distinguished audience Dr Robert Koch , the eminent Berlin bacteriologist , who in 1882 had described the tubercle bacillus , lecturing on the subject of the disease , stated positively that the bacillus found in infected animals could not be transferred to human beings .
30 Moreover , other sulphydryl compounds have been implicated in colonic disease since Roediger et al have shown that mercaptoacetate and mercaptobutyrate affect fatty acid metabolism in colonocytes in a manner that is characteristic of the defect found in ulcerative colitis .
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