Example sentences of "in [adj] area [vb base] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a Royal Mail spokesman said yesterday : ‘ Our managers in that area have assured us that everything has been delivered . ’ |
| 2 | A member of one local authority in England — I will not name it for obvious reasons — told me that the police in that area have said that following up poll tax debts and warrants is not a high priority . |
| 3 | The answer received was that all people who have lived in that area have imprinted their personalities on the chalk , which in origin is organic , and that he was picking this up : ‘ As a sensitive , you replay , like a gramophone record , everything that has been recorded on the chalk ! |
| 4 | Whereas I always felt that we would get five B , I did n't feel confident we would manage to retain any objective two , and , and the partnership in that area have managed to retain it . |
| 5 | Studies in this area have indicated that too strict or too lax parental attitudes increase the risk of delinquency ( the work of John Bowlby , for example ) ; they have found that if a young child is deprived of close personal relationships with parents or parent figures then ‘ problem behaviour ’ is more common . |
| 6 | Advances in this area have led to the development of more realistic script recognition systems . |
| 7 | Recent cases in this area have tended to concentrate on the aspect of duty rather than remoteness . |
| 8 | Typically , exasperated health service managers in some areas have developed ‘ community-based teams ’ of nurses , psychologists and therapists working with people living at home , while the local consultant has remained firmly ensconced in his hospital office , near his admission ward and at some distance from the team . |
| 9 | Land prices in some areas have trebled in a year . |
| 10 | Prices in some areas have dropped by between 10 and 20 per cent this year and the number of sales has been half last year 's . |
| 11 | Investments in public transport in these areas have concentrated on expensive high technology systems of rapid rail transit . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly the temporary structures erected in these areas have left few archaeological traces . |
| 13 | The people who live in those areas have lost power . |
| 14 | Occasionally , housing policies in local areas have attempted to restrict the sale of houses to local inhabitants . |
| 15 | I have suggested that official LEA policies on ‘ race ’ and gender reflect each other and contain similar kinds of rhetoric ; significantly local policies in both areas have ignored social class inequalities , and have both tended to isolate education from wider debates concerning inequalities . |