Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to look at Innocent 's expansionist views towards the Eastern Church and Palestine , but they were grounded in age-old desires to re-unite Christendom and secure the Holy Places from the infidel . |
| 2 | ‘ Two hundred and fifty pounds in used notes looks very like blackmail but , for these days , it 's a modest demand from a comparatively wealthy man . ’ |
| 3 | The most important have been the Dolgellau area of North Wales , where auriferous quartz veins in Cambrian shales have yielded a total of about 4 tonnes of gold , and the Pumpsaint area of Central Wales where auriferous quartz veins cut pyritic Silurian shales . |
| 4 | It is a mineralised breccia pipe in Cambrian sediments consisting of angular fragments veined and cemented by chalcopyrite , pyrite and quartz ( Allen and Easterbrook , 1978 ; MRP 29 ) . |
| 5 | We can only surmise that a few basic signalling systems emerged early in evolution and were then modified in subtle ways to meet the unique signalling requirements of different cells . |
| 6 | His first appearance in surviving records appears to be late in 1249 , when he was appointed the abbot of Westminster 's attorney for litigation in the Common Bench . |
| 7 | As detailed on May 2 , the measures gave the government the technical right to dismiss strikers in these sectors and laid down that strikes in non-essential services had to be approved by an assembly of at least one-third of union members concerned , while in essential services strikes had to be announced 48 hours in advance and a minimum level of service ensured . |
| 8 | His more intimate followers met secretly in small closed groups , probably in the large villas of the wealthy landowners , and indulged in orgiastic rituals enhanced by drugs and alcohol . |
| 9 | Not all the incidents in Iranian waters involved tankers . |
| 10 | Mr Bensley felt it was too early to link the incidents — but pointed out the disturbing pattern of attempts by youths in stolen cars to lure police patrol cars into ambushes . |
| 11 | Jim and Fred Rodgers maintained that the RUC 's presence in loyalist areas had doubled since SDLP and Alliance Party delegations met the Security Minister , Sir John Wheeler , earlier this week . |
| 12 | In a direct reference to the West Belfast MP , the spokesman added : ‘ Dr Hendron may well recall that in recent months the RUC presence in loyalist areas has produced complaints of police harassment . ’ |
| 13 | Presumptions of legislative intent , which draw their strength from judicial perceptions of widely held notions of justice and fairness , can not in normal circumstances override the explicit terms of an Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | In further discussion , it was suggested that , even though opinion was divided on the merits and on the question whether the abolition of the death penalty would in normal circumstances give rise to an increase in the number of murders , the Cabinet might be able to agree that this was not an appropriate moment at which to take the risk of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 15 | They have the final authority , through the Chamber of Republics and provinces , over all economic and financial policies , and it would be difficult in normal circumstances to get their agreement to substantial federal surpluses or deficits . |
| 16 | The percentage improvement in spinal bone mineral density is similar to that reported in normal women receiving this dose of oestrogen . |
| 17 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 18 | Twelve hours as an average in normal times seems a fair measure . |
| 19 | This is compatible with experiments in normal subjects ingesting increasing doses of lactulose , where an inverse relation between carbohydrate malabsorption and MCTT has been shown . |
| 20 | Time spent outside this range for longer than the 90th percentile in normal subjects implies an abnormal pH exposure . |
| 21 | Since the tone of the internal anal sphincter is normally modulated by its sympathetic nerve supply , the observation that the minimum basal pressure is no lower in spinal patients than in normal subjects suggests persistance of a tonic sympathetic influence on the intenral anal sphincter , supporting previous studies , and probably mediated via autonomous activity of the inferior mesenteric ganglion . |
| 22 | They pointed out that motility patterns in normal subjects needed to be described in more detail , that the relation between pressure and transit needed to be further investigated , and that the analysis and classification of pressure waves had to be standardised and quantified . |
| 23 | All the methods in current use for investigating hemispheric asymmetry of function in normal subjects have now been described . |
| 24 | X-rays generally come from regions of superhot gas ( 10 million degrees and above ) ; the strongest sources in normal galaxies occur where gas streamers from one star fall towards a companion neutron star or black hole ; powerful extragalactic sources include the centres of quasars , and gas dispersed through clusters of galaxies . |
| 25 | Hours spent waiting for instructions , wet time , and working on unbonussed operations would be included in total hours worked , but not set against the target hours . |
| 26 | In total women make up less than 20 per cent of the labour force in large private sector firms and the majority are young and unmarried who leave before they have accumulated more than 10 years service . |
| 27 | TSL filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers last month ( CI No 2,123 ) with more than $108m in total liabilities reported as of September 1992 . |
| 28 | The UCS won the judicial capital , Sucre , and easily defeated the AP in the Andean cities of Oruro and Potosí and in total votes emerged as the country 's third political force . |
| 29 | The lower productivity of peripheral units and the low proportion of wage costs in total costs means that the relatively cheap labour does not give the periphery a significant price advantage over more advanced units . |
| 30 | Those participating in conversational encounters have to have a care for the preservation of good relations by promoting the other 's positive self-image , by avoiding offence , encouraging comity , and so on . |