Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun sg] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collective mind in action is clearly an important topic but it seems to be a challenge which psychologists have not yet taken up . |
| 2 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 3 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 4 | Extra weight in knitting is often a help , as are edge claws and pushing down wheels . |
| 5 | But its boom in popularity was still a selective one — probably due to the fact that it was not until 1830 that the transport of Champagne in bottles became legally permitted . |
| 6 | ( This tale has a special popularity in the UK , where the vehicle in question is always a Mini , though versions have cropped up in Australia and the USA . ) |
| 7 | The fall in activity was partly the result of a US naval blockade in the Strait of Tiran , although many ships had abandoned Aqaba earlier in the month for purely commercial reasons ( i.e. an increase in shipping insurance rates ) . |
| 8 | I struggled back into equilibrium and tried to ride the pulverising waves of misery and found to my desperate dismay that the finger of arrow in front was almost an inch longer . |
| 9 | Continuing reliance might be placed upon the " civilizing influence of literature but teachers were also aware that for many students a degree in English was simply a necessary preliminary to a career in business , commerce , the civil service , teaching broadcasting , or journalism . |
| 10 | Humming noises in pipework are often the result of the pump speed being set too high . |
| 11 | If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency . |
| 12 | Reductions in taxation are therefore a two-edged sword , when used as a device to create jobs . |
| 13 | That point in time was also the time of the appropriation . |
| 14 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |
| 15 | The topic of sexism in language is probably the best known of all feminist linguistic concerns . |
| 16 | Failure in communication is often the base from which many problems arise . |
| 17 | It may be no coincidence that the occasion of this shift in distribution was also the time when the devaluation of the gold had become serious . |
| 18 | The field of action granted to the Community in culture is thus a wide one . |
| 19 | Who knows whether the first Americans who came across the Bering Strait in pre-history were indeed the first . |
| 20 | Wide variations in practice are partly the result of ignorance about the efficacy of many medical interventions ( Black 1986 , Fuchs 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The modernist revolution in art is largely a formalist revolution , or a revolution in which art becomes judged not as much by its content as by its form . |
| 22 | The reason why judges and barristers ( less than ten per cent of the profession ) wear wigs and gowns in court is exactly the same as the reason why professional aircrew wear stripes on sleeves and epaulettes copied from the ‘ eighteenth century fancy dress ’ of naval officers : in order to be quickly , easily and accurately identified in a crowd . |
| 23 | Overall , getting computer records submitted as evidence in court is only the first aspect of the evidential requirements companies need to address when implementing an electronic documentation system ; getting the court to accept the contents as adequate proof , or a good record , is an even more important consideration . |
| 24 | The writer who imagines that the novel is the most effective way of taking part in politics is usually a bad novelist , a bad journalist , and a bad politician . |
| 25 | Whilst the , the London Region speakers come into the rostra I 'll just make the point , Peggy in fact is only the third women that 's spoken this morning . |
| 26 | It could be that it is reducible to the other needs ; that our belief in convention is purely a function of the degree to which it satisfies our needs for affection , status , and so on . |
| 27 | The game in hand is always the most important and the euphoria that surrounded the result on 6 February is now a thing of the past . |
| 28 | Efficiency in competition is thus a prime source of selection and occurs in many aspects of social life . |
| 29 | Sometimes differences in terminology are merely the use of different words for the same or similar groups ( such a ‘ West Indian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ ) ; at other times , different sets of terms refer to different classifications and different ways of classifying . |
| 30 | It is unclear though whether cross-cultural differences in outcome are mainly the result of different family structures or of a more complicated cluster of culturally related variables . |