Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building is large , brown , a series of Romanesque arches in tiers that span Astor Place and Cooper Square . |
| 2 | Visitors used to flock to it in omnibuses and examine it with the careful scrutiny of sightseers . ’ |
| 3 | Once mastered , however , it can be completed in minutes and ensure that you are reading at your optimum level . |
| 4 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 5 | They tend to be alkaline , with free carbonate and calcium , potassium , sodium , magnesium and other ions distributed in patterns that vary with age and the amount of leaching . |
| 6 | Tree stumps to jump from , logs to climb over and smaller logs to arrange in patterns and roll about , give experiences of height , weight , and shape . |
| 7 | In order to look at the effect that financial devolution , in the form of LMS , is likely to have , both on schools and on the quality of education , it may be helpful to look closely at what has happened in institutions that have already experienced various levels of financial autonomy . |
| 8 | The Tollemarche ladies , in bonnets and cartwheel hats , gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint . |
| 9 | Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests . |
| 10 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 11 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 12 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 13 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 14 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 15 | Mains powered projects should always be housed in cases that have a screw fitting lid . |
| 16 | In cases that do not have a clear Rhus tox . |
| 17 | At present two fifths of the Warwick University Bookshop group 's turnover was in books , the rest in products that persuade the students to spend their money . |
| 18 | This makes sense when you consider the stored bank of CFCs in products that have not yet been released in the atmosphere . |
| 19 | We will enable the courts to override unfair terms in contracts and improve our powers to deal with rogue traders . |
| 20 | A larger proportion of middle-period Byrd has seen the light of day the songs always excepted but never in recitals that attempt to plot stylistic progress . |
| 21 | Knives and sharp instruments are the most common weapons used in homicides and account for one third of all homicides . |
| 22 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 23 | We have traditional defences on , for example , diminished responsibility which allow murder to be reduced to manslaughter , or defences introduced in Acts that have been passed in the last couple of years . |
| 24 | Other chemicals which pose a threat to stratospheric ozone but whose emissions are smaller include the halon gases ( variously containing bromine , chlorine and fluorine ) which are used mainly in fire-extinguishers and have an even greater ozone depletion potential ( table 6.1 ) ; methyl chloroform , which is used as a solvent and cleaning fluid ; and carbon tetrachloride , used as a dry-cleaner and to fumigate grain in Eastern Europe ( figure 6.3 ) . |
| 25 | Some poor people live in houses that have become valuable through changes in the local property market . |
| 26 | ‘ Psychologists , dieticians and physios should have their place in clubs that spend millions of pounds on their players . ’ |
| 27 | The tree produces its nuts in groups that fit neatly together like the segments of an orange and are packaged in a box . |
| 28 | It will rely on 1,500 consultants in 30 countries in groups that include Management Consulting for Business Transformation and Information Technology Strategy & Planning ; Functional Consulting for Application Development ; an Industrial Sector ; and Technology Consulting , IBM noted . |
| 29 | Chimpanzees often feed in groups and come together with loud demonstrations in the feeding trees . |
| 30 | Simply getting depressed clients to work in groups and focus on their problems in living has been found not to effect significant changes in level of depression ( Nezu , 1986 ) . |