Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For example differences in the languages different humans speak , are probably entirely caused by a non-genetic factor ; in this case the language spoken by those around us when we are young .
2 Purity campaigns not only registered a shift in modalities of control , but a change in the personnel responsible for sexual regulation and in the sites from which power was exercised .
3 He ended his inscription : " When I had established peace in the lands subject to me , I came to Adulis and sacrificed to Zeus , Ares and Poseidon , on behalf of those who voyage on the sea . "
4 A selection is being made of these authorities which are revealed to have diverged upwards or downwards by a statistically significant amount from the others in their class and a detailed investigation made in the authorities concerned to discover the causes .
5 It was , I think , common cause among all of us who were involved in the talks last year , and who , I hope , will be involved in the talks in the future , that they are not peace talks per se ; they are talks about a political settlement , not only in terms of Northern Ireland but in terms of the relations between Northern Ireland and the republic and between Great Britain and the republic .
6 Solicitors willing to offer either of these services are indicated in the Solicitors Regional Directory .
7 Panel lists can be found at Citizens Advice Bureaux , at Magistrates Courts and also in the Solicitors regional Directory .
8 I do not suppose they are worried that the frogs and toads hatched in the ponds previous years , all returned to lay and spawn and found no water into which to produce the next generation .
9 The reduction of wages council protection will affect women 's earnings since 75 per cent of the labour force in the industries concerned are women .
10 Since the US firms were usually the largest , their slower growth of sales led to a reduced concentration in the industries concerned — measured by the sales of the top three firms as a proportion of the top 20 .
11 It is I believe a result of that situation that reference to the correct , that is to say the continuation of washing-over , was not known in the documents first submitted by way of representation to various planning .
12 If the child has the capacity to understand what is in the documents this must be explained to him .
13 In the cities all protein would eat itself and ooze in a tide into the underbelly , rot eating rot , till the firegas detonated , leaving the cities like mounds of dead , blasted coral .
14 That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past .
15 In the courts political questions may come before the judges because the matter is already in public controversy , like race or industrial relations ; or because it is claimed that a public authority has exceeded its powers ; or because the matter concerns the activities of the police ; or because the matter impinges on the individual rights of citizens , affecting their freedom or their property .
16 Its effect is to expose to restraining action in the courts any local authority activity not backed by statutory authority .
17 The greatest treat for the overworked book-sorter is a preview of the Davidson Room , where the Wood family , the Hepburns , and all the others in the THINGS PAST & PRESENT team make such an artistic and witty display of their stock .
18 If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer .
19 SCOTLAND 'S 17-year-old former world junior snooker champion John Higgins notched a 5–1 win over England 's Tony Rampello in the Pounds 25,000 Benson & Hedges championship in Glasgow last night .
20 This figure also illustrates that other interest , in problems which scarcely seem to have presented themselves to sculptors in the rest of Greece : alike in the patterns discoverable in the pull and hang of clothes , and in the relation of clothes to the body beneath .
21 The distinctive patterns formed by leaf scars are visible on fossils of the bark , which is often found in coal and in the deposits overlying ones containing roots .
22 Some of those who answer such questions incorrectly may do so because of slips or lack of recent practice in the topics concerned .
23 It appears implicit in the contrasts observable in a small county like Buckinghamshire .
24 This can be seen in the Graphs 1 and 2 .
25 These debates are outside the scope of this volume , although some aspects of the perceived burden of supporting older people will be raised in the chapters concerned with the health status of the older age groups and issues relating to the supply and consumption of formal and informal care .
26 Examples of appellate tribunals are the Social Security Commissioners and the Employment Appeal Tribunal , which were considered in the chapters 12 and 13 .
27 In the kouros this development takes the form of ever more accurate rendering of observed natural forms , always controlled by a strong feeling for pattern ; but the idea is hardly yet present in these first efforts .
28 Wilhelm Reich observed that life began on earth from its action — thus echoing the Hindu insight — and in the Heavens vast streams of ‘ orgone ’ , or ether , flow , pulsating in spiral form and creating , through super-imposition .
29 The astronomer , who can predict the exact position of a planet in the heavens one thousand years hence , knows not what may be his own state of health tomorrow … ’
30 It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned .
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