Example sentences of "and in the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs .
2 This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted .
3 Taking the early references to the Franks together with their origin legends , it seems that we are dealing with a confederacy of peoples long settled in the region of the lower Rhine , and in the river valleys to the east , as far as the Elbe and the Main .
4 There 's another story with a happy ending they know , not just from Serafine ; it 's traditional in their family , and in the history books in which the Everards have a mention .
5 [ Symons 's Meteorological Magazine , vol. li , July 1916 ; Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. xlii , 1916 , pp. 301–4 ; Nature , vol. xcix , 1916 , pp. 365–6 ; Scott 's correspondence in the Stokes collection , University Library , Cambridge , and in the Benyon papers in the Berkshire County Record Office ; Mineralogical Society archives . ]
6 And in the ridgeway hedges on the last lap before home , the wild damsons are perfectly ripe and beginning to drop from the trees .
7 Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point .
8 Relief workers reported in early August that since the beginning of the year thousands of Ethiopians had died in the Ogaden region and in the refugee camps of Gode , Kelafo and Dolo in the south-east .
9 Due to the potential danger of drugs , and in the safety interests of all members of society , most countries legislate to control drugs .
10 In the 1980s , the proportion of spending on economically-orientated schemes , for example , constructing small industrial units , rose in the Partnerships and in the Programme Authorities from 29 per cent of Urban Programme expenditure in 1979–80 to 38 per cent by 1984–5 .
11 The church dates back to the 14th century , and in the grass fields to the south of Station Road can still be seen the ridge and furrow of the open field arable strips which probably originated before the charter .
12 Egypt and North Africa had proved how swiftly modern mobile forces could overrun quite considerable distances , and in the summer months of 1942 , the British and Commonwealth forces were again back in Egypt , relying on overstretched supply lines .
13 Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to .
14 Improvement in the gamma stocks ' liquidity and in the market mechanisms for smaller shares are required , or firms will leave the
15 The Labour government will therefore , as a matter of moral obligation and in the material interests of our country , foster the development and trade relationships necessary for the advance of economic security , political democracy and respect for human rights .
16 However , a very high priority has been assigned to the development of SVQs , given their central position in government policy , and in the training programmes to be implemented in the Local Enterprise Companies established under Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise .
17 But he said loyalist terrorists ‘ sullied the terms Protestant , unionist , Northern Ireland and British while in reality they are pagans , no friends of Northern Ireland and in the end enemies of all its people .
18 In the High Court supplementary provisions dealing with witness statements are to be found in RSC Ord 38 , r2A(4) — ( 16 ) ( see Appendix C ) and in the county courts in CCR Ord 20 , r12(A) ( 4 ) — ( 16 ) .
19 In the High Court it seemed that the " going rate " for personal injury matters in 1991 was about £65 per hour and in the county courts in London in 1991 between £55 and £60 per hour .
20 He was educated privately and at Columbia Law School , and worked as a lawyer and in the family estates before entering the New York State Assembly as a Republican in 1877 .
21 Where woman-centred feminism recognizes ‘ race ’ differences , it frequently tries to describe ‘ race'-specific female essences , and in the process layers on clichés about , for instance , black women 's victim or matriarch status , in a way which mythologizes the women and denies difference and change .
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