Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brighton Polytechnic has made an even bigger commitment to the scheme : it has distributed 20 adaptors to local schools , and expects to double the number of adaptors in its field trial in the near future . |
| 2 | The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface . |
| 3 | the foundation U , yo you 've got the option to start the teaching certificate in the first year . |
| 4 | Complementing this development is the formation of a new Biomedical Products Division in the UK which will look after the servicing and supply of analysers and reagents for this country . |
| 5 | Figure 6.4 shows that the noise level in the Nightingale ward and in the cubicle during the night was above the figure suggested for the usual bedroom ; and during the day , the level in the ITU was above the ‘ annoying ’ level . |
| 6 | The teacher , being annoyed by the noise level in the room , threw a piece of chalk at an Afro-Caribbean boy who was not being particularly noisy . |
| 7 | The noise level in the multi-channel communication system will be higher , both literally and in terms of communication theory . |
| 8 | So the noise level in the factory was sufficient to be a threat to the er the hearing of their employees . |
| 9 | The noise level in the room is evidence that the children are having a good time but they do n't like being asked silly questions . |
| 10 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 11 | The Transport and General Workers Union is hopeful of receiving a five per cent wage increase and one hour reduction in the working week for its 2,000 Teesside lorry drivers . |
| 12 | It had been set up ‘ to advise on questions relating to representation at board level in the private sector ’ with the following terms of reference : Here , then , was a proposal to promote industrial democracy in a particular specification . |
| 13 | The Ministry of Defence argued strongly against the merger on the grounds that GEC and Plessey were the two largest suppliers of defence electronics in the UK . |
| 14 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |
| 15 | But even a single base change in the germ line DNA can cause gross visible effects , because the changed DNA molecule is replicated , and its effects are further amplified during the decoding process . |
| 16 | All of the opportunities which exist for course monitoring in a monolithic , longitudinal course structure also exist at field level in the Modular Course . |
| 17 | Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months . |
| 18 | It is certainly true that much of the criticism of Leonard Arthur and doctors who believe as he did , was made ‘ in ignorance and misunderstanding of how the science and art of paediatrics is practised ’ as the defence counsel in the case claimed . |
| 19 | Two members of the team have trekked widely in the Hispar area and Hillen , Tyson and Lister had six months high-altitude mountaineering experience in the Andes during two successful expeditions in 1989 . |
| 20 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 21 | So the blacksmith plover in the savannahs of East Africa will stand over its eggs , shadowing them with outstretched wings , to allow what wind there is to blow over them ; and in Australia , a jabiru stork will collect water in its beak to spray over the eggs if they get dangerously warm . |
| 22 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 23 | Last month saw a new Christie play in the West End and her books still sell in millions . |
| 24 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 25 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 26 | In conclusion he quoted directly from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia trial in 1964 [ see pp. 20245-46 ] : " I have fought against white domination , and I have fought against black domination . |
| 27 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're welcome here , ’ he told them , and he wrote , ‘ Fighting sparrows glad at heart/ chirp in the cottage eaves . ’ |
| 29 | Roderick et al report that both the study of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) candidates who entered Sheffield University in the three years between 1975 to 1977 , and the study involving 17 English Universities , demonstrate that there is an exceptionally high dropout rate and failure rate in relation to unqualified mature students . |
| 30 | But the issue here is this — Reagan , for all his cant about balancing the books , actually ran up an enormous budget deficit in the USA , and financed his arms development by borrowing . |