Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 He duly won the Washington International , but the race did little for harmony in transatlantic racing relations , for Lester Piggott 's handling of the colt provoked a bemused American press into heaping criticism on his apparently indifferent head .
2 Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists .
3 In November two former Army officers , Adolfo Padilla and Gustavo Díaz , were sentenced by a civilian court to seven years ' imprisonment each for participation in a failed coup attempt on May 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36653-54 ] .
4 Winter visitors depart in late February and March , when our breeding birds also return inland , and the counts in Fig. 12 show very little through passage in the spring .
5 That for Chedburgh in the same county illustrates the Lancasters flown by 218 Squadron from the local airfield .
6 Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 .
7 The problem facing ICI fibres , though , was that for clothing in Europe , polyester use is greater than polyamide by a ratio of 3:1 .
8 So it 's in year ten , Sandra does it er does it you did that for safety in the home ?
9 you to try that for practice in
10 Understood that after w/e in Wiltshire .
11 Chart 20 shows McKinsey 's demonstration of this for firms in cars and electronics .
12 The short answer is that several of the routes have been identified in fluid transition experiments , but that the significance of this for transition in general is currently very uncertain .
13 If this is so , what are the implications of this for practice in schools ?
14 Advocates of family allowances later used this as evidence in support of their case ( Rathbone , 1949 ; p. 48–51 ) .
15 Alan Greenspan , the Fed 's chairman , has defined this as changes in the price level which are too small to have a material effect on the decisions of businesses and households — 2% or less , say .
16 So you 'd name this as butane in other words , you 're saying it 's a butane chain you take off the E you will add O L and if there are positional isomers possible you have to indicate the position one O L butane one L one O L butane one O L.
17 He holds a number of directorships , is a member of learned institutes , an author , is a recipient of many awards and honours and hold many offices , including some as chairman in a wide range of organisations , including some in the voluntary sector and many concerned with education and training .
18 For example , the Low Pay Unit commented that although the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band in 1992 provided an extra 1.92 per week to some 250,000 families , these families would lose 76p of this through increases in excise taxes and reductions in social security benefits ( Goldsmith 1992 ) .
19 The best advocates have had prodigious memories , enabling them to retain the details of one complicated case after another for presentation in court .
20 after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face .
21 The Birmingham Canal paid a dividend of 23 per cent in 1789 and in 1792 a single £140 share was sold for £1,250 ; another for £130 in the Staffordshire and Worcestershire fetched £1,100 .
22 The modem included in US models is n't approved by the British telecoms authorities — apparently its components are too close together and do n't meet the required specification — so Tadpole is recommending another for use in its place .
23 I say this of course in the late twentieth century .
24 Whilst paying due attention to individual differences among incoming students as a potential source of subsequent competence , the investigator is especially concerned with the effects upon this of variation in course provision and course participation .
25 But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined .
26 We 've had half of Southampton in here . ’
27 Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population .
28 There were some of course in in Bangor and Caernarfon .
29 Five districts have erm prepared some of vision in order to share that vision or that example of what is happening in the districts , relating to the ministry erm with the and those who have come to us as well .
30 So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on .
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