Example sentences of "in [noun pl] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Father , we thank you for those you have placed in posts of responsibility in the governments of the world and of our nation . |
| 5 | It was in circumstances of unrest in the merchant service that the Asquith government fell and a new coalition was formed by Lloyd George in December 1916 . |
| 6 | Cranmer 's involvement in affairs of state in the reign of Edward VI was embarrassing , pathetic and finally disastrous . |
| 7 | However , others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state . |
| 8 | With critics and journalists in positions of influence in the worlds of culture and education and in society as a whole , art has degenerated into a mere topic of inconsequential chit-chat , and criticism , correspondingly , into the cement of a worthless social milieu . |
| 9 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 10 | Carrots from the garden were stored in containers of sand in the cellar . |
| 11 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 12 | The benefit of these reactions have to be understood in terms of life in the wild , where fighting off predators , or fleeing from them , may literally be a matter of life or death . |
| 13 | The Japanese are number one in terms of imports in the US ceramics market , whereas a few years ago Wedgwood was clearly number one . |
| 14 | The contribution of the comprehensive system to the improvement in attainment measured in terms of performance in the examinations for the Scottish Certificate of Education ( SCE ) at 16 , 17 and 18 , comes as a result of several factors . |
| 15 | Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure . |
| 16 | This model ‘ explains ’ climatic changes on a timescale of tens of thousands of years in terms of changes in the Earth 's orbit and inclination to the Sun . |
| 17 | Part of this ex post forecasting could distinguish the various phases of post-1954 business cycles with respect to their particular characteristics in terms of changes in the sectoral/industrial composition of the UK economy and with respect to the specific features of the different industries ' behaviour in terms of stock movements , capacity utilisation , scrapping of old equipment , new investments , etc . |
| 18 | Constipation is usually defined in terms of changes in the frequency , size , consistency , or ease of passage of stool . |
| 19 | Finally , Chair , erm , progress in terms of care in the community . |
| 20 | the growing uncertainty of the environment in terms of reductions in the amount of capital and revenue money available ; |
| 21 | Iran has consistently produced more than its quota , securing exports by discounting below the OPEC release price and though it has benefited in terms of revenues in the short term , has certainly been partly instrumental in weakening the cartel . |
| 22 | This is the political failing of a materialist reduction ; history shows that it is inadequate to view the determination of events in terms of contradictions in the base . |
| 23 | Another important area in terms of safety in the offshore industry is the COSHH regulations , which all parties in this House claim is one of the great steps forward in health and safety provision in this country . |
| 24 | There have never been prosecutions in Northern Ireland , and in Great Britain there were ten prosecutions between 1944 and 1988 , with a total in fines of £334 in the seven successful cases . |
| 25 | They 're all friendly , and fascinated by the way our dinghies plane past in clouds of spray in the strong afternoon winds . |
| 26 | Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim , that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself . |
| 27 | Guilt : in early recovery ( and in moments of lucidity in the active disease ) the sense of guilt can be overwhelming and devastating . |
| 28 | However , new evidence suggests that HIV infection is progressive in the majority of people and that there is deterioration in measurements of cells in the blood and increase in activity of HIV , even before a person becomes ill . |
| 29 | You begin to see er in erm in parts of Europe in the er later eighteenth century a growing emphasis upon er er upon language , literature of of certain areas . |