Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels his purpose in life is to spread the Christian religion in unexplored places where the people have never heard the word of God . |
| 2 | Apart from a few nouns which allow a choice of singular or plural concord ( e.g. The committee is/are considering the question ) , the choice of singular in English rules out the possibility of plural reference by default , and vice versa . |
| 3 | This is only of benefit in big events where the skill and fitness of the top sailors are all very similar and it is the state of mind that matters . |
| 4 | Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election . |
| 5 | A contrast may be drawn in this respect between the highly fragmented union movements in Anglo-Saxon countries where the historical and ideological connection between socialism and trade unionism was much weaker , and the formation of broad , comprehensive interest organisations on the part of the working class by way of the existence of large industrial unions in those European countries such as Sweden , Austria and Germany with a strong socialist tradition ( Streeck , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | This bargaining process is likely to take place in secluded agencies where the state and societal elites can work out deals , sheltered from any formalized and universally applicable legislation which might make bargains too difficult to achieve . |
| 8 | The church of course continued its opposition to artificial restrictions of birth and this was reaffirmed in 1908 , though by 1914 a pamphlet circulated to clergy and churchworkers , The Misuse of Marriage , advocated the safe period in certain cases where the health of the wife was unequal to the burden , or the home conditions were bad . |
| 9 | The establishment of this network proved to be a critical factor in African nationalism during this brief period in Kenyan history when the press played a role similar to that of the nationalist press in British West Africa . |
| 10 | Editor , — Like Michelle Jacobs , I have seen several instances of accidental overdose of prescribed medication in young children where the container provided no obstacle to the child . |
| 11 | But one fine day in early summer when the sky was blue and there was not a cloud in the sky , Maxine found herself cancelling an arrangement to meet a friend in town . |
| 12 | The Roberts ' garden reaches a peak of colour in early May when the yellow flowers of the laburnum contrast with the violet-blue flowers of the Clematis alpina , tumbling through its branches . |
| 13 | Another part of the strategy was an attempt to change community leadership in local areas where the government was having problems . |
| 14 | If these economies are also those with existing substantial disparities in regional prosperity then the transition to monetary union might well serve to aggravate the relative position of the latter , in that any reduction in national income arising from the processes outlined above is itself likely to have a disproportionately large effect on the disadvantaged regions of those countries . |
| 15 | Why are the farmers in eastern England almost the only ones who choose to grow sugarbeet ? |
| 16 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 17 | The aim is to attempt to neutralise the employers ' advantage in multi-plant companies where the workers of each plant are represented by different ( and otherwise uncoordinated ) trade unions . |
| 18 | Even now drivers leave windows and sun rooves open and park in darkened cornors where the thieves feel safest |
| 19 | This new ability to comprehend the manual point seems to coincide with a change in cognitive ability whereby the baby identifies the location of the target by extrapolating a straight line from the adult to the designated object . |
| 20 | Moreover , if the centre parties succeed in breaking through into parliament in large numbers then the prospect of coalition government would be increased and this would give the Crown a role in the making of governments since it would no longer be a simple and automatic matter of sending for the leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 21 | Similarly there seem to be many cultures in tropical countries where the women get on with the necessary work while the men sit around discussing matters . |
| 22 | New methods of irrigation , the planting of fruit trees in large areas where the vines had been stricken , the division of the land into small fields broken with tall cypress hedges as windbreaks against the scourging mistral , the ever-increasing demand in Paris and the big towns of the north for early vegetables , and the tremendous industry of these Provençal cultivators have done the rest . |
| 23 | This is the same principle employed by ripeners in large warehouses where the bananas are subjected to ethylene , pressure and warmth to compress the normally five week process to around five days . |
| 24 | ‘ La Gruyère is one of the most beautiful unspoiled regions in Western Switzerland where the people still follow the age old traditions . |
| 25 | Would she encourage an increase in the twenty per cent who actually employ specialists for particular subjects er to do so as a priority in religious education where the teacher has no such sympathy . |
| 26 | This interpretation is supported by the different solution given by the same jurist in other cases where the debts newly contracted are not dependent on the existence of an old debt but are entirely new . |
| 27 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 28 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |
| 29 | These were put down to provide underground information in critical areas where the succession of rocks was poorly known . |
| 30 | Another example is the breeding of new varieties specifically for certain environmental conditions , eg , for better performance under dry land farming conditions , for quicker growth in northern areas where the growing season is limited or for more efficient photosynthesis . |