Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 2 | Porous sandstones near the top of the Sherwood Sandstone occur beneath thick impervious halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone . |
| 3 | A hardback book , entitled ‘ The West Somerset Railway ’ will also be published by Ian Allan in the Steam Portfolio series during the week . |
| 4 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So the noise level in the factory was sufficient to be a threat to the er the hearing of their employees . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Black House , as the Chelsea headquarters in the King 's Road became known , had uniformed sentries at its doors , for all the world as if the private army was ready for the great coup . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 16 | Housing quality is examined usually by area rather than by social group and there is little information on different income groups in the countryside and their needs and demands for housing . |
| 17 | The finding of normal cholesterol values in the group of patients undergoing similar preparation before colonoscopy , eliminated the preparatory protocol as a contributor to the lowered cholesterol values . |
| 18 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 19 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |
| 20 | Ken Threlfall , general manager of the County Durham ambulance service , responding to concerns voiced by Teesdale district councillor Phil Hughes , said response times in the dale bettered the national requirement . |
| 21 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 22 | A reverse takeover offer is one where an offeror company makes a general offer to the shareholders of a larger company to acquire their shares in exchange for new shares in the offeror company , with the shareholders in the larger company becoming the majority shareholders in the offeror company . |
| 23 | This was denied and speculation that the paper would move from its traditional support of the Left was quashed by the four banks which are the majority shareholders in the group . |
| 24 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | junior counsel to Serjeant Buzfuz in the case of Bardell and Pickwick . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |