Example sentences of "in [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was blood everywhere and in minutes the whole scene looked like Custer 's Last Stand . |
| 2 | In minutes the last remnants of life on the planet were gone . |
| 3 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 4 | The phrase comes from Dryden 's The Conquest of Granada , Part One , I. i : ‘ When wild in woods the noble savage ran ’ ( CS 14 ) . |
| 5 | The brand name of this factory was sold and is now being manufactured abroad , but an unsuspecting public still buys that brand , after having paid in taxes the outstanding debt . |
| 6 | Birds , like mammals , produce sound by blowing air from their lungs over vibratory vocal chords in the trachea , although in birds the vocal cords are situated slightly closer to the lungs than in mammals . |
| 7 | In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers ' union branches . |
| 8 | Dudley , is maths today taught in schools the same way as it used to be ? |
| 9 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 10 | Unlike O. ostertagi in calves the arrested stages of the common sheep nematodes are susceptible to thiabendazole and levamisole . |
| 11 | The refugees , small wiry people dressed in rags the same colour as the desert , huddle in the shelters , crouch in the shade behind the buildings , or in groups around the places where relief teams distribute what little food there is . |
| 12 | In hens the dominant birds are usually larger in size . |
| 13 | In telecommunications the twin-track development of satellite and fibre-optic capacity — not least across the north Atlantic and north Pacific — suggests major over-capacity for the 1990S . |
| 14 | In rats the equivalent adhesion interaction is between MRC OX-45 antigen ( rat BCM1 ) and CD2 ( P.A. van der Merwe et al. , manuscript submitted ) . |
| 15 | In trusts the interpretative problem was different . |
| 16 | Lexical edges are labelled with the orthographic form , and in brackets the syntactic label associated with the hypothesized word . |
| 17 | For those interested in comparisons the four sector clocks offered varied in price : £1,600 and £1,200 ( Christie 's ) ’ £820 and £650 ( Sotheby 's ) . |
| 18 | In places the accumulated plaster of years , too heavy to bear its own weight , had cracked and crumbled , and fallen to the ground before her brush like broken china . |
| 19 | But in places the bare rock is showing and the joints have been enlarged by chemical solution . |
| 20 | After all , in places the main reef is 100 kilometres or more offshore . |
| 21 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 22 | Women factory inspectors agreed that the less work women did in factories the better it would be for their home life and children 's welfare , but they were also forced to admit that working women usually needed their earnings . |
| 23 | In AMS the charged particles are subjected to large voltage differences so that they travel at very high speeds . |
| 24 | In monkeys the lateral geniculate nucleus projects almost exclusively to the primary visual cortex , with only a few axons straying into the surrounding secondary cortical visual areas . |
| 25 | In monkeys the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus projects exclusively to the prefrontal catex so it seems reasonable that the dorsomedial nucleus projection zone would correspond to prefrontal cortex in rats . |
| 26 | Dogs in REM sleep sometimes move their legs as if running , and in monkeys the whole face may writhe and twitch . |
| 27 | Only sometimes in dreams the terrible days of the siege , which were like the dark foundation of the civilized life they had returned to , would return years later to visit them : then they would awake , terrified and sweating , to find themselves in white starched linen , in a comfortable bed , in peaceful England . |
| 28 | In males the general size , especially in the lumbar region , is greater . |
| 29 | In Europeans the overall mortality was not increased , the standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) was 71.8 ( 95% confidence interval ( CI ) 49 to 101 ) . |
| 30 | In Europeans the expected mortality for each patient was found by summating the risk each year according to current age from standardised mortality statistics from the East Midlands obtained from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |