Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 2 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Only 3pc of the population cycle in built-up areas but there is a huge demand for safe off-road facilities . ’ |
| 4 | In Essex , Jacques found very little WEA activity in rural areas although there were promising urban branches at Colchester , Harwich and Halstead . |
| 5 | Teaching is still an important option for less privileged groups : for example , for school graduates in rural areas where there are few opportunities for professional employment and for both urban and rural women , whose range of job opportunities is still far more limited than men 's . |
| 6 | The Government talk about competition , but what chance is there for competition in rural areas where there is perhaps only one bus every hour , or every two or three hours ? |
| 7 | In rural areas where there are few cinemas the video centres are especially popular . |
| 8 | Those who know the geography of Scotland will understand that the latter percentage is much higher in rural areas where there is no other employment . |
| 9 | Depressive illness can result in suicidal thoughts and there may or may not be expression of intent . |
| 10 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 11 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 12 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 13 | At the moment , trade marks may be registered in individual countries but there are moves to develop an integrated European system although this will present difficulties as the same or similar marks may already be registered in different countries by different proprietors . |
| 14 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 15 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 16 | The two acts which Oedipus committed , killing his father and having sexual intercourse with his mother , are forbidden in human societies because there is a strong desire to perform them both . |
| 17 | It is difficult to persuade those who exercise authority in conventional terms that there are other forms of power than theirs : more diffuse but more pervasive ; less aggressive but more enduring , to be round in small towns and rural villages . |
| 18 | In large fleets where there is so much dirty wind on the layline this is often the best tactic . |
| 19 | Although , like the other papers in the group , it had an African editor and staff , final editorial control was in white hands and there was usually close white supervision . |
| 20 | There are often complaints of bullying in primary schools and there have been a number of research studies that have highlighted the problem . |
| 21 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 22 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 23 | This , as its name suggests , was an exercise in vertical lines but there was also a new emphasis on the horizontal . |
| 24 | Her hair was done up in fat rollers and there were white dabs of anti-wrinkle cream under her eyes . |
| 25 | It should however be noted that while profit maximization is not regarded as a goal , it is accepted in managerial theories that there is a profits constraint , either because a minimum level of profitability is a condition of survival of the enterprise , or to necessary to protect management from loss of office through take-over . |
| 26 | However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented . |
| 27 | Active citizenship , in the form of participatory democracy , is only possible in small communities where there is no organisational complexity . |
| 28 | It 's important in small conferences where there are limited numbers moving slowly , but for bigger events it 's absolutely crucial . |
| 29 | About 42 per cent of unwanted pregnancies resulted in live births and there were about 15 unwanted births per year per 1,000 married women who wanted no further births ; almost 10 per cent of the marital fertility rate . |
| 30 | The youngest group has in effect become more stratified in educational terms and there are now new gradations of educational attainment that mirror differences in social background . |