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

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1 He was looking at a completely empty street , so lacking in signs of life that it might be a convenient escape route .
2 This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies .
3 The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe .
4 A third aim is to suggest possible hypotheses directed towards explaining differences between housewives in attitudes to housework and the housework situation .
5 This would be a traceable social factor within the often noted innovations in attitudes to language and to the received visual significance of objects .
6 The Neolithic advent of farming about 10,000 years ago seems to have produced a fundamental shift in attitudes to animals and the natural world .
7 These are evident in attitudes to authority and in learning styles used or preferred .
8 The report also highlighted the difference in attitudes between men and women .
9 The idea is that there was a swing in attitudes among rank and file unionists away from an acceptance of a number of necessary constraints on wage increases — an attitude strongly influenced by pre-war experience of high unemployment and postwar economic control — to rising expectations of wage increases as part and parcel of the much vaunted ethos of high and sustainable economic growth .
10 For example , the Home Office monitors violent crime by looking at numbers and trends in patterns over time and produces annual figures for offences and convictions , but in so doing avoids the problems of definition that bedevil the researcher .
11 But it is arguable that its deepest roots are to be sought in patterns of normality and abnormality in a family of ordinary language expressions ( which could be formulated as a set of diagnostic frames ) .
12 We need to be aware of changes in patterns of kinship and in the organisation of the family and household .
13 It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing .
14 The aim of this new project is to relate wages and prices to a series of model household budgets designed to reflect changes in patterns of consumption and expenditure .
15 The old have to accept changes in patterns of living and cultural standards that they can not understand , and cope with rejection by the younger generations , as well as a good deal of sentimentality and shallow stereotyping in private and public references to themselves .
16 Titmuss felt that changes in patterns of pregnancy and childbirth had been a much more important factor in explaining changes in women 's position in society than the acquisition of legal rights .
17 The sun splashed down in patterns of light and shade .
18 To see how far contrasts in the institutions of two different welfare states are reflected in patterns of employment and family building , collaborators in Sweden are running parallel analyses of the event histories of Swedish women .
19 The 1980s have seen dramatic changes in patterns of employment and labour relations , and sustained mass unemployment .
20 Signs of clinical depression include : a marked change in patterns of eating and sleeping , inability to concentrate , extreme lethargy and deep unhappiness ( see chapter 5 ) .
21 Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below .
22 Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all .
23 These results suggest that expression of E-cadherin by LC promotes persistence of these cells in epidermis , and that cadherins may play important and unanticipated roles in interactions between leukocytes and epithelia .
24 The £800,000 bargain from Manchester United scored in wins over Arsenal and Chelsea .
25 On March 31 a demonstration in London organized by the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation ended in large-scale violence , in fights between police and groups among the participants , and in looting of premises .
26 Relations with Tibbu played some part in conflicts between Mannaia and Awlad Amira .
27 He puts in loads of time but he never talks about it . ’
28 Image analysis equipment and software is probably the area of highest potential scientific benefit in the short to medium term , for light and electron microscopy in programmes on rusts and diatoms .
29 A number of American institutions have introduced competency-based education , with library involvement , in programmes concerning communication and information skills .
30 Often , negative experiences in institutions during childhood and youth play a major part in this .
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