Example sentences of "[adj] in the [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regrettably I have rarely seen this in the practices of arts teachers , even those who have expressed this as a crucial attribute of their work . |
| 2 | Nor is the connection between improvements in health and feminism clear in the lives of individuals ; large numbers of active middle class feminists were also chronic invalids . |
| 3 | Other welcome guests are Brittle Stars , which often turn up in zoanthid colonies or tangled in the branches of gorgonians . |
| 4 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 5 | She had met people of this genre before — intense , smart , well-connected , impulsive , communicative , insatiably interested in the affairs of others — and she would , she supposed , upon interrogation , have classed herself , at least in aspiration , as one of the genre . |
| 6 | I have with me Eric Huton , who is particularly interested in the problems of children with special educational needs . |
| 7 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 8 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 9 | Jonadab had already hired a new third lad , or ‘ thoddy ’ as they were known , and there was little more for them to do in the town : neither was interested in the attractions of sideshows or stalls . |
| 10 | For one thing , they often feel that they must hide their condition in order not to appear foolish in the eyes of others . |
| 11 | Both Leapor and ‘ Sophia ’ find something contemptible in the claims of men to automatic mastery over their wives . |
| 12 | But presumably if the ‘ good ’ schools became , as a result of their location , their examination results , or by some other means , identifiable in the eyes of parents , then these schools would have to become selective . |
| 13 | The regulations anticipated under s11(1) will have the purpose of securing : ( a ) that goods to which this section applies are safe ; ( b ) that goods to which this section applies which are unsafe , or would be unsafe in the hands of persons of a particular description , are not made available to persons generally or , as the case may be , to persons of that description ; and ( c ) that appropriate information is , and inappropriate information is not , provided in relation to goods to which this section applies . |
| 14 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 15 | Domestic training became more prominent in the curricula of girls schools . |
| 16 | But such trends are clearer in the minds of men than they are in the rocks . |
| 17 | The plight of the rural poor does not tend to loom large in the minds of businessmen , but even they need to pay attention to Thailand 's educational shortcomings . |
| 18 | You find these in the stems of reeds and rushes , their presence usually denoted by a crack in the stem enveloped by a soap-looking bubble . |
| 19 | We only find these in the spectra of gases ; rotation is not quantized in condensed phases , and the characteristic rotational envelope of a gas-phase band is absent . |
| 20 | Whatever is good in the writings of others should be copied , and constant reference should be made to such books as an English grammar , Roget 's Thesaurus and a good dictionary . |
| 21 | Why should preferences that are obviously not equal in the minds of voters be treated as if they were ? |
| 22 | It is above all in the sets of variations that the English virginal repertory differs from the consort repertory ; Allison 's ‘ Goe from my Window ’ variations in Morley 's Consort Lessons are quite exceptional . |
| 23 | They still believe that the kingdom of Heaven is something present in the lives of men and women . |
| 24 | These include relative isolation , taken as more than 20 km from urban areas ; social class , defined as the proportion of the population in the registrar general 's classes I and II ; density of children , taken crudely as the number of enumeration districts in a given sector having 100 or more children ( postcode sectors are fairly large , and acreages of enumeration districts are not available ) ; and increases from 1971 to 1981 in the numbers of men working away from home in the construction and energy industries ( ‘ recent oil impact measure ’ ) . |
| 25 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 26 | What is more , officials in the department have become more , not less , involved in the affairs of companies . |
| 27 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 28 | In English , a temporal relation may be expressed by means of a verb such as follow or precede , and a causal relation is inherent in the meanings of verbs such as cause and lead to . |
| 29 | Such consultancies were seen as being prestigious in the eyes of candidates , having a wider field from which to chose , an extensive research resource immediately to hand , and the largest data banks . |
| 30 | The third and perhaps chief problem related to general degrees is their status , which tends to be lower in the eyes of academics , and perhaps employers , than their academic or professional counterparts . |