Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way to Wallsend , will my right hon. Friend visit the north-west of the United Kingdom , and the borough of Macclesfield in particular ? |
| 2 | Although the risks of coelocentesis in continuing pregnancies remain to be assessed , the procedure may be safer than early amniocentesis , which involves the removal of a large proportion of amniotic fluid with a potential adverse effect on fetal pulmonary development . |
| 3 | The primary outcome of the project will be a descriptive account of the employment characteristics of establishments in British industry , which can be compared with the situation recorded by the 1980 survey , but it is also hoped to consider the findings in the context of current debates about labour market segmentation . |
| 4 | It will be amalgamated with information obtained from others to provide a complete statistical picture of the characteristics of people in particular occupations . |
| 5 | The previous section outlines some of the key characteristics of UDCs in general , and the MDC and LDDC in particular . |
| 6 | It also has an ensuite bathroom facility , with all sorts of things in little sealed packets for you to take home for your children . |
| 7 | I am aware that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have promoted all sorts of proposals in recent years , and many of them have been contradictory . |
| 8 | The books feature various babies getting up to all sorts of tricks in different situations . |
| 9 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Even where the binary policy was welcomed — for instance in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes ( ATTI ) and the local authorities — there were often reservations , either about the rigidity of the binary boundary , or about the possibility of the ‘ public sector ’ acquiring sufficient resources or status . |
| 11 | This publication is the final report of a seminar organised by the Association of Researchers in Voluntary Action and Community Involvement ( ARVAC ) and hosted by the Voluntary Services Unit at the Home Office in November 1990 . |
| 12 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 13 | Tony pushed open the door marked ‘ stalls ’ and was at once enveloped in a pot-pourri of cigar-smoke , women 's perfume and that unmistakable tang of bodies in close proximity . |
| 14 | Separate software modules are required to handle direct and sequential retrieval , using a great deal of space in main storage ; |
| 15 | Turning a blind eye could cost you a great deal of money in lost orders and lost production , and it certainly wo n't help them or their colleagues who have to work with them . |
| 16 | Complaining in print about one restaurant 's service charge policy — giving both the restaurant and proprietor 's name — could cost that establishment a great deal of money in bad publicity . |
| 17 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 18 | ‘ We have a great deal of experience in managing events of this stature . ’ |
| 19 | That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures . |
| 20 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 21 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 22 | A great deal of history in recent Lakeland books is total rubbish . |
| 23 | In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles . |
| 24 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 25 | However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years . |
| 26 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 27 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 28 | I have in recent years got into a deal of trouble in certain Commonwealth countries by claiming that any all-Canadian or Australian squadron was not as good as a mixed squadron . |
| 29 | They had three centuries of expertise in oral disinformation on which to draw in these situations . |
| 30 | Those Russians who had taken his room did not pursue , but from the upper storey and outbuildings at the back came the curses , shots and screams of men in mortal combat . |