Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study concluded that ‘ … combining free-range poultry production with trees could make free-range systems more practicable and profitable and improve the feasibility of keeping some forms of poultry in free-range systems , notably chickens for eggs and meat , and turkeys ’ . |
| 2 | The national growth in economic inactivity is also reflected in the increasing trend towards early retirement among some groups of people in the 60–64 age range . |
| 3 | This difference is all the more complete in that different rights in the same thing or place may be and usually are held by different people or different groups of people in those societies . |
| 4 | In answering these questions , local politics inevitably come to the fore again , not only because different responses have different costs and benefits for different groups of people in different places , but also because alternative policies can actually be tried out at the local level . |
| 5 | JOAN DANIELS has recently introduced Medau to three different groups of people in Kent . |
| 6 | With more than 30 different sightings of mink in a recent five hour match at Kidsgrove and Scholar Green , anglers have agreed the time is right to remove the killers |
| 7 | Young people will also be encouraged to find effective ways of using different kinds of media in their school , church and community activities . |
| 8 | ‘ You meet lots of different kinds of people in the Lebanon , ’ Bernard replied then dismissed the topic with a vague flick of his hand . |
| 9 | Certainly psychoanalytic theory helps understanding of some actions of people in pre-literate societies , or of children and neurotics in Western societies . |
| 10 | The interest of the British Chiefs of Staff in such arms was also increased by the seemingly prohibitive cost of adequate conventional forces — even with allies in Nato . |
| 11 | Needs have been identified for high quality therapy equipment at the Developmental Centre and for possible further exchanges of staff in July 1993 . |
| 12 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 13 | It 'll be suitable for different sizes of people in a variety of conditions , but wo n't be suitable for more sophisticated windsurfing techniques . |
| 14 | By selecting for a sample a definite " quota " which reflects the proportion of different types of people in the target population , which can , of course , be the whole population , we have , prima facie , reason to assume the sample as representative . |
| 15 | The colleges grappled with widespread early retirements of staff in teacher education , permissions to prepare courses from the DES in the case of teacher education , and from the Inspectorate and the Regional Advisory Councils for other courses . |
| 16 | For example , 50 users working simultaneously with , say , 20 different blocks of multimedia data each of 100 megabytes implies 100 gigabytes of data in the network ! |
| 17 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc lost a crucial six months of sales in the 80486 market after Judge William Ingram ruled late on Wednesday last week that the company does not have rights to copy any of Intel Corp 's microcode under their 1976 contract . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , as the all-party talks on the future administration of the Province are stalled , probably until after the general election , and as the previous review of local government in Northern Ireland took place more than 20 years ago , this is an ideal moment for an independent body to be asked to consider the structure and limited powers of present local authorities in terms of whether they meet the contemporary aspirations of people in Northern Ireland ? |
| 19 | To address the varying needs of staff in different schools inservice sessions and workshop programmes on the following topics were developed and delivered . |
| 20 | This set in motion the final phase of a project which started in 1988 when the order was invited by the Bishop of Middlesbrough , Augustine Harris to research the pastoral needs of people in the area . |
| 21 | And after you 've sent your signal to Athens and I 've composed a suitably stirring message to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington . ’ |
| 22 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 23 | Although the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1946 seemed to regard the Far East as the most likely arena for a Soviet–American collision , they agreed that Soviet expansion from its borders westward or to the south could result in a conflict with Britain into which the United States might finally be drawn . |
| 24 | The Policy Planning Staff supported the Joint Chiefs of Staff in arguing that Soviet over-confidence , fear or miscalculation might lead to conflict . |
| 25 | Often , however , the course content and objectives are determined by the special interests of individual members of staff in a particular department . |
| 26 | Absolute numbers of sheep in Cantal , and of cattle in Powys , show no clear trend of increase or decrease whereas the predominant grazing animals ( sheep in Powys , cattle in Cantal ) are both clearly increasing . |
| 27 | Of 133 battalions of infantry in the Spanish army in 1751 twenty-eight were composed of foreigners ; and it was seriously proposed in that year to raise twenty more abroad . |
| 28 | Things that take up no more space than a cigarette packet can now have vast amounts of data in them . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has a less than impressive record in turning developments in its laboratories into commercial products , but perhaps that will change when an outsider is installed at the helm , and IBM researchers say they have developed a polymer film that can capture and hold vast amounts of data in the form of hologram images at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current Winchester disk drives . |
| 30 | He came calling for Europe to work towards economic integration to ensure that the democratic hopes of people in the East did not give way to an opposite undertow of disillusion . |