Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria Wine director of marketing Ann Tonks , who reports a drop in nablab sales of 20 per cent over the Christmas period ( compared with growth in total lager sales of four per cent ) , says that people respond strongly to price promotion in the sector . |
| 2 | Extra sail stretchers either in the form of rigid stand-offs made of carbon fibre rod , or flexible glass fibre rods forced by compression into a curve which push the sail upwards and backwards , have become regular features.These serve to dampen the flutter , and to hold the sail form during the critical launch stage in low wind speeds.Trailing edge stiffening with mylar film or mesh overlay is used on some designs . |
| 3 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 4 | Doctors also advised their patients to drink less tea and coffee , go on a diet , practise pelvic floor exercises ( in each case 9% , 26 ) . |
| 5 | In each case £20 million to £30 million of government money was spent reclaiming a site for flowers and later development . |
| 6 | Leastways , he was a distant connection of Councillor Harris , and he had made an enormous success as Cousin Syd in that comedy series on the Light Programme , quite apart from his role in Charlie 's Aunt on Saturday Night Theatre . |
| 7 | In that way people were bidden to the funeral . |
| 8 | In ulcerative colitis 17% of patients continue to take antidiarrhoeal agents and some dietary restriction is reported in 25% . |
| 9 | This was followed by pamidronate in 500 mL 5% dextrose infused at a rate of 15 mg/h . |
| 10 | A 1.3% decline in European car sales worsened a slip in Renault 's market share from 10.4% to 9.9% . |
| 11 | Fiat , whose market share in Italy has slid from around 60% to 44% in the past four years , said on May 25th that it will ask the Italian government for more financial help with temporary lay-offs , because of the slump in European car sales . |
| 12 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
| 13 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 14 | The TRAFFIC investigators reported that Greece was one of the world 's biggest markets for trade in endangered cat species . |
| 15 | A micropropagation unit is being set up , partly to assist research in endangered plant species , and other cultural facilities are used for cryptogams and higher plants . |
| 16 | These forces and effects are most apparent in high performance aircraft . |
| 17 | City : CBI reports fall in high street sales |
| 18 | A SURGE in high street sales last month was hailed as good news by Chancellor Norman Lamont yesterday , who said it showed that Britain was on track for economic recovery . |
| 19 | An increase in high street sales has given some unexpected good news on the strength of the economy . |
| 20 | Average family size at age 36 among the 1946 birth cohort of women was 2.0 among women in social class I increasing to 2.7 among women in social class V. During the declining fertility of the 1970s , social classes I and V moved even closer together , as fertility of the latter fell faster ( Pearce and Britton 1977 , Werner 1985 ) . |
| 21 | The award was to finance the fees and accomodation of 8 students on the ESRC Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis |
| 22 | In 1993/94 £100,000 of capital under a deed of appointment is paid for the benefit of Mr X. The relevant income in 1992/93 was £20,000 , in 1993/94 £50,000 and in 1994/95 £70,000. £70,000 of the £100,000 will be treated as Mr X 's income for 1993/94 and £30,000 will be treated as Mr X 's income for 1994/95 . |
| 23 | Many victims are also having to come to terms with the trauma while looking after children and the elderly in overcrowded refugee camps.Whether rape has been singled out by military commanders as a weapon of war remains open to question , but victims ' testimony suggests the abuse is part of a wider pattern of warfare and ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ . |
| 24 | In accompanying school staff to the warehouses she was in a position to offer some advice , and in processing actual orders she did appear to exercise a tempering influence . |
| 25 | As the summer wore on and Dubah 's name kept cropping up in raw intelligence data from DEA/NARCOG informants , Coleman eventually reported to Donleavy that , without ever leaving the country , the Syrian spymaster seemed to have his hand in the pockets of everybody engaged in the Bekaa 's drug traffic , from Damascus to Dearborn . |
| 26 | Human egg collectors , too , have been fooled by the uncanny resemblance of cuckoo eggs to , say , meadow-pipit eggs or reed-warbler eggs ( different races of female cuckoos specialize in different host species ) . |
| 27 | I lived in different parts duck . |
| 28 | All these matters were basically concerned with the maintenance of acceptable standards of safety and it is only fair to acknowledge the fact that the high standard of safety in public transport aircraft today results to a large extent from work done by ICAO . |
| 29 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 30 | Although maybe not too daunting in light observation aircraft such as Piper L–4s , as these could already operate with ease from small fields and open spaces , there would be no advantage in using a large and unwieldy centrifugal launcher . |