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

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1 Many historians believe that ‘ there is a tremendous change in attitudes towards children from the 17th to the 18th centuries ’ ( Plumb 1976 ) .
2 The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment .
3 The question of changes in patterns of inequality in the distribution of wealth must therefore be considered in detail ; our empirical evidence will relate to contemporary Britain .
4 Of the old forest cantons , Uri was always the leader in policies of expansion over the Gotthard into the Ticino .
5 Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period .
6 Yet because social relations , and especially changes in social relations , are often more evident in cases of developments in the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces , it is worth emphasizing the manifest social character of the other kind of development .
7 In an ideal hierarchy , technical and substantive levels would be congruent ; however , in cases of conflict between the two ( which is , of course , possible only in the case of a branching hierarchy ) , primacy should be given to substantive levels .
8 Thus it is only in cases of debate about the reasonableness of costs incurred that the different bases of taxation produce any difference in the actual costs received .
9 It has been found more convenient to leave jurisdiction in cases concerning offences against the vert and venison to the ordinary petty sessions .
10 Certainly Chalmers , the draftsman of the SGA 1893 , considered that each provision in the Act should have a common law history , an outlook which influenced the approach to formulating the statutory implied terms in contracts of hire under the SGSA 1982 .
11 In discussions with companies across the United State , it appears we are not alone .
12 The class teachers have collaborated throughout by discussing lesson intentions and outcomes , and by meetings in groups with members of the research team to discuss interim findings .
13 Over £4m has already been invested in projects in advance of the Campaign launch .
14 The accounts of the aforementioned sieges are dotted with references to the importance of neighbouring churches as lookout and artillery directing points ; of local hills used by signallers ; of the construction of ‘ sconces ’ ( outlying strongholds ) ; of the siting of artillery pieces on rising ground , or in woods within range of the besieged ; of troops lying in ambush in local lanes ; of the use of church bells to sound alarms and of church registers to record the names of those slain in skirmishes .
15 For at least eight hours each week , students were expected to work alone or in pairs on experiments in the laboratory , with some supervision by staff and postgraduates .
16 In fact , the use of pesticides in cereal farming is largely limited to seed dressings and sometimes aphicides , but it was to the use of persistent organo-chlorine seed dressings that the decline in birds of prey in the late 1950s and early 1960s was convincingly attributed .
17 In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm .
18 Do you find a resistance to change in schools in terms of the examination syllabus and content ?
19 In each case , the programme was tested in schools after consultation with the staff and translation of course materials into Xhosa .
20 Are there any members who wish to do make declarations of pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in respects of items on the agenda for this meeting .
21 All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now .
22 Mildred Gordon MP , formerly a teacher , said in her speech that ‘ far too often young children are presented , in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal , acceptable , happy family as comprising a married , white middle-class man and woman , with two prissy children who are clean , neat and tidy , and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households . ’
23 ‘ We are worried that fireworks may be made available in shops to children under the age of 16 .
24 A hypnotic orator , McKenna can be heard on the album track ‘ Re-evolution ’ , delivering bite-sized chunks of the philosophy he developed in books like Food Of The Gods and The Archaic Revival .
25 This book has concentrated on the selection of library materials rather than their acquisition — a subject which is fully treated in books by Chapman for the UK and Magrill for the United States .
26 Banks were able to bid aggressively for wholesale deposits and to take in funds in return for the issue of certificates of deposit .
27 Pyatt crashed in combinations at will in the third and a punishing left to the jaw broke the Guyanan 's resistance , and referee Richard Davies rightly intervened .
28 I clipped into the top peg and swung around in tides of feelings below the bulge .
29 These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups .
30 While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first .
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