Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main parties also agreed on constitutional changes to stem the influx of immigrants , one of the main reasons for the rise in attacks on foreigners . |
| 2 | Two external factors suggest possible reasons for the increase in numbers . |
| 3 | Two external factors suggest possible reasons for the increase in numbers . |
| 4 | There were , suggested David Rees , three reasons for the growth in numbers : |
| 5 | The deep reasons for the difference in numbers of species are unknown — assuming , that is , that there are deep reasons . |
| 6 | It is relatively easy to identify the immediate or ‘ proximate ’ reasons for the decline in births ( Bongaarts and Potter 1983 , see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 7 | Understanding the reasons for the decline in women 's employment after age 45 is important for community care policy , labour supply and pensions policy : older women are a major source of informal care for elderly people , yet are also a potential source of extra employees as the supply of school leavers declines during the 1990s . |
| 8 | ( ClO is the product of reactions between the chlorine in compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) and other atmospheric gases . ) |
| 9 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 10 | Wishing to be faithful to the whole biblical tradition ( unlike many moderns ) , the church fathers insisted that Satan was a rebel but that he was also somehow connected to God 's purposes and plans for the world in terms of both judgment and deliverance . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State is aware that had the Government not broken the link between the rise in pensions and the rise in earnings , the single pensioner would be receiving £14 more a week and a couple £24 more a week . |
| 12 | Any enquiries relating to centrally developed courses may be directed to the NDOs with responsibility for the area in questions , who will be pleased to keep colleges informed on progress . |
| 13 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 14 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 15 | The challenge , specifically , is to raise funds for the Association in adventures , novel and unusual ways . |
| 16 | As an example , Toshiba says it will ask $1,330 for the PC , $1,610 for SC and $1,932 for the MC in quantities of a thousand during the first half of 1993 . |
| 17 | In essence , then , the scope of a harmonizing measure is determined by the nature and extent of the problem to be tackled , the function of the particular body undertaking the measure , and the feasibility of the project in terms of ability to reach agreement within a reasonable time-frame . |
| 18 | Whenever a preliminary selection has been made the student should be encouraged to consider the feasibility of the topic in terms of the resource implications and other constraints . |
| 19 | The factor which accounts for the bulk of the variance in responses ( 27 per cent ) is composed of attitudes towards the process of SSE , with its product , the bringing about of changes in schools , being only weakly correlated , suggesting that teachers simply do not see evaluation as necessarily linked to subsequent action . |
| 20 | Does not the court indicate that it is necessary to inquire into the adequacy of the consideration in cases of this type ? |
| 21 | The previous criticisms revolve around the adequacy of the programme in terms of the ability to meet the timetable for the legislative programme , and of the effective scope and implementation of legislation . |
| 22 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 23 | In 1988 , though , the price index is 120 and this means that part of the increase in national income is a result of the rise in prices rather than the rise in physical output . |
| 24 | If we assume , instead , that the poorest in the locality benefits ( though not fully ) from the cuts in central tax , a higher output will be chosen as a result of the cut in taxes , though this will be less than output OX 2 , the output that would be chosen if an equivalent lump-sum grant had been received . |
| 25 | It all begins with the stagnation of the blood in capillaries ( tiny blood vessels ) , and this leads to a flow of blood fluids ( plasma ) through the capillary walls which separate fat-storing cells known as adipose cells . |
| 26 | Marx looked confidently forward to a world in which the Industrial Revolution had triumphed completely , bringing in its train a thorough mechanization of life and the concentration of the population in cities . |
| 27 | It 's part of a realistic demonstration of the cost in casualties and cash of road accidents , 95 percent of which are caused by human error . |
| 28 | the growing uncertainty of the environment in terms of reductions in the amount of capital and revenue money available ; |
| 29 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 30 | At first Addington had linked the coming of peace in 1802 to the repeal of the hated tax which " should not be left to rest on the shoulders of the public in times of peace , because it should be reserved for the more important occasions , which he trusted , would not soon recur " . |