Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE DART VALLEY Light Railway Plc has become the latest steam railway to hit the financial skids with a plunge in passengers , income and overall profitability recorded in the 1991 accounts . |
| 2 | So we have several levels of interaction with a computer in terms of entering information . |
| 3 | Although Europe was tough , with a slowdown in profits despite something of an advance in sales , all Longman companies — but especially Churchill Livingstone Japan and Longman Group Far East — had a good year in Asia Pacific , Ms Kahn said . |
| 4 | The boardroom rises at the company compare with a rise in profits of 13 per cent . |
| 5 | There have never been prosecutions in Northern Ireland , and in Great Britain there were ten prosecutions between 1944 and 1988 , with a total in fines of £334 in the seven successful cases . |
| 6 | Faced with a slump in orders , or with any problems over the supply of raw materials , he simply could not employ many of those he needed in brisker times . |
| 7 | She was with a man in plus-fours who , she claimed , was her husband . |
| 8 | Individuals are thus faced with a cost in terms of the time and effort spent on ensuring that they keep in money form only the amount required to cover their day-to-day transactions . |
| 9 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 10 | Well I think that message is getting across to the P L P and we 've seen more women coming into the House of Commons , sitting on the Labour benches at the last general election , but there also is a sense that the progress , although it 's being made , needs to be speeded up , because when you have profound social changes outside the House of Commons , with a change in women 's role in society , a change in women 's role in the Labour force , and a change in women 's role in the family as well , you ca n't allow your parliament to lag behind . |
| 11 | It did not work directly , but since the end of the war did coincide with a change in personnel at local level it was quite often the case that local authorities had new education officers at a time when they were eager to innovate . |
| 12 | But the end of slum clearance came more with a change in values : away from demolition , to conservation and rehabilitation . |
| 13 | For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously . |
| 14 | The changes came about because of the costs of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) , the need for pensions that could be moved along with a change in jobs , and the wish to provide the public with more freedom of choice in their pension plans . |
| 15 | Pipe smokers and whisky drinkers have done much better , with a fall in duties of around 20% , while wine drinkers have had a ball , with a 30% fall in tax . |
| 16 | Analogously , membership declines below the MD curve : with a fall in wages for a given ta ; , the utility loss from paying union dues increases , and membership therefore declines . |
| 17 | She had the woman stripped and covered with a blanket in moments , and bit her lip to contain her anger . |
| 18 | ( HAMLET enters behind them , talking with a soldier in arms . |
| 19 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 20 | In beauty salons , you can have hair waxed with traditional hot wax , which is applied with a spatula in sections and pulled off in strips quickly , taking the hairs with it . |
| 21 | The campaign will culminate on the fourth Sunday of Lent , 21 March , with a collection in churches . |
| 22 | Hence many books on the technique of ethnography have been written by those with a background in police research ( Fielding and Fielding 1986 ; Punch 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Both /a/ backing and /Ε/; raising are relatively recent phenomena in Belfast ( but see below ) , and both are associated with a background in Scots . |
| 24 | Heavily outnumbered , but with a superiority in firearms , Christopher da Gama fought an inconclusive battle near Lake Ashangi . |
| 25 | Dip the cut end in rooting powder and insert in a hole made with a dibber in pots or trays of rooting compost . |
| 26 | Van de Wetering 's criticisms of Goldreyer 's restoration landed him with a claim in damages for libel amounting to $25 million from Goldreyer 's lawyer , to which Van de Wetering has since replied by asking the court in New York to declare the claim inadmissible on the grounds that he does not fall under the jurisdiction of the State of New York . |
| 27 | As dawn broke yesterday , the same group , this time led by a mother with a baby in arms , faced down the police patrols and reached the embassy successfully . |
| 28 | And I 've seen her , done up and looking her very grandest , reach into a small-feathered evening bag , take out an antique cigarette case with an M in brilliants on it and offer a surprised young queen a condom . |
| 29 | Still , such evaluation is important because , for example , if the incidence of cardiovascular complications of hypertension is 5/1000/year and if a drug reduces risk by 30% ( that is , by 1.5/1000/year ) then with an increase in cases of cancer of just 2/1000/year a particular drug could do more harm than good . |
| 30 | A report by the Confederation of British Industry says business in Britain is getting better with an increase in exports . |