Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 General areas of intended use can be included , as a cross check , in case of errors in selection .
2 If the money can be saved from the reform of the common agricultural policy , would not that mean a reduction in income for farmers in my constituency , unemployment and a reduction in the rural economy ?
3 It will be relatively easy to compare changes in funding with changes in performance to see whether there is any correlation .
4 Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care .
5 To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice .
6 Changes may also occur from year to year in response to cycles in rodent populations .
7 Because the status of women is inextricably linked to a complex politico-economic system , it , and the ideas connected with it , change in response to changes in the system as a whole .
8 In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities .
9 Some predators , such as tawny owls , eagle owls and buzzards change their diet in response to changes in prey availability ( Southern , 1954 ) .
10 Post-Fordism , on the other hand , is characterized by the growth of flexible specialization , which implies a more widely variegated and less standardized set of products , as well as the ability to change the nature of those products in response to changes in the market .
11 Thus , reversible binding of calmodulin to the channel complex in response to changes in the level of Ca 2+ has the effect of increasing the sensitivity of the channel to small changes in cGMP which may occur during the photoresponse .
12 A desired [ CO 2 ] gradient was maintained in the chamber during daylight ( 9–10h daily ) by automatically varying the rate of unidirectional air flow through the cover in response to changes in photosynthetic CO 2 depletion by enclosed plants and sunlight intensity .
13 Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language .
14 In the 1960s , in response to changes in social structure and expectations , and in the context of a party and interest-group world that would not embrace new interests and demands , large numbers of inner-city residents formed themselves into loose groups to press for changes in public policy and in the balance of the public-private provision of the basics for a decent life .
15 Estimates of carbon releases from the biosphere to the atmosphere in response to changes in land-use have varied enormously in the past but are now generally in the range 0.8 to 2.5 Gt of carbon per year ( Bolin , 1986 ) .
16 Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation .
17 The opposition between capitalism and socialism has thus remained throughout the century a dominant feature of political life , whatever the modifications that have been introduced into the opposing doctrines and policies in response to changes in the economy and society ; which were themselves , in part , an outcome of this conflict .
18 It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties .
19 : the geology of rocks which have undergone alterations at depth in response to changes in pressure , temperature , and chemical conditions .
20 People may act differently in response to changes in taxation than to variations in earnings per se .
21 Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal .
22 These purchases or sales are not in response to changes in the PSBR or PSDR , and are best understood , therefore , in the context of an unchanged PSBR or PSDR .
23 The demand for money will therefore be very elastic in response to changes in interest rates .
24 Using functional notation , we can write However , since it takes time for firms to adjust their capital stocks in response to changes in demand ( remember that capital is a variable factor of production only in the long-run ) , it may be more realistic to introduce a lag into the accelerator part of the function and write Only empirical testing can determine which of the three independent variables is the most important .
25 This is the essence of Keynes ' analysis : that output or quantity adjustments come before price adjustments in response to changes in demand in the economy .
26 The number density of the atomic particles in the wind varies on time scales from days to years , in response to variations in solar activity .
27 Dr Peter Fleming , Bristol Maternity Hospital , UK , reported that changes in the variability of respiration in response to alterations in room temperature have been found in some normal infants .
28 However , Mr Knapp believed rates in the UK would be cut further in response to moves in November 's Budget to control the ballooning borrowing requirement .
29 Renner ( 1949 ) argued with some plausible empirical evidence that legal norms which appear to persist for lengthy historical periods , spanning different modes of production , in fact change their substantive functions in response to developments in economic structures .
30 He was one of the first , in response to developments in Europe and the Far East , to conclude that German and Japanese expansion might in time threaten the interests and even the security of the United States .
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