Example sentences of "in [noun pl] adjacent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close inspection reveals that mean smoothing creates relatively large residuals in months adjacent to the strikingly atypical months , where perhaps common sense would suggest otherwise ; if the percentage in February 1985 represents some kind of error , for example , then the less resistant mean has spread this error over into the adjacent months . |
| 2 | It was only when cash crops reduced the importance of subsistence agriculture and the amount of forest land declined in districts adjacent to the areas where the new markets had been created that the market economy began to work against the crime . |
| 3 | In 1992 , considerable exploration activity was focussed in both the Ghadames and Illizi Basins , where there have been a series of exciting new oil discoveries in blocks adjacent to our acreage . |
| 4 | As Fig. 7.1 illustrates , the greatest risk of desertification is in areas adjacent to the world 's hot hyper-arid zones , and include rain-fed croplands , irrigated lands and rangelands . |
| 5 | Literature distributed in areas adjacent to large Asian populations warned that : ‘ Labour is set to relax rules … |
| 6 | Support personnel worked in areas adjacent to the production floor , so that they could be contacted instantly when required , and through constant contact keep up to date with the processes which they served . |
| 7 | It is also active in areas adjacent to nearly enclosed seas in hot deserts , for example the Red Sea , where both humidity and salinity are high . |
| 8 | That story is now presented by Historic Scotland in a permanent exhibition — ‘ The Honours of the Kingdom ’ — in rooms adjacent to the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 9 | Anderson , shaken by what he has seen , returns to the hotel where he finds out the result of the match — a heavy defeat for England — from two English sports journalists ( Grayson and Chamberlain ) in rooms adjacent to his ( scene seven ) . |
| 10 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) the incidence of this disease increased significantly in the immediate post-1970 period in villages adjacent to Lake Nasser , the lake dammed by the Aswan Dam , though subsequent public health measures have brought the disease under control . |
| 11 | They 've also applied for a licence to hold all-nighters in premises adjacent to Quadrant Park which could hold 4,000 people . |
| 12 | Babies have been kept in cells adjacent to their parents and denied milk to pressurise the parents into making statements . |