Example sentences of "in line [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly you would have to be in pretty desperate case to dismiss the eloquent Michelozzo figures on the cenotaph frieze in the Duomo as ‘ wriggling in lines like leeches in a bottle ’ . |
| 2 | But this in itself did not lead to Worcester being an obvious target for government to focus attention on , since such a reduction was in line with predictions for other hospitals . |
| 3 | The recent increases were in line with movements in the Rotterdam spot market . |
| 4 | An important distinction is between bonds which carry a fixed ( coupon ) rate of interest and floating-rate notes ( FRNs ) where the rate of interest varies in line with movements in a designated short-term rate . |
| 5 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 6 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 7 | Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity . |
| 8 | A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so . |
| 9 | The value of these stocks is uprated each year in line with changes in the retail price index . |
| 10 | Since 1981 , the Bank of England has issued a number of index-linked bonds where both capital sum and interest payments are increased in line with changes in the retail price index ( RPI ) . |
| 11 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 12 | With the company having invested heavily in plant-specific training for a particular worker , and output from the plant not being directly related to the number of workers in the plant , firms operating these technologies will be reluctant to hire and fire such highly trained workers in line with fluctuations in product demand . |
| 13 | The threat to employ outside contractors is in line with plans for hiving off parts of the ambulance service sketched out by Mr Clarke during the dispute . |
| 14 | Normally , the international environmental services company raises dividends in line with earnings per share , which jumped last year by 28.6 per cent to 8.018p . |
| 15 | Following the conversions of preference shares and loan stock referred to above , LVMH , in line with agreements between the Company and Financière Agache , purchased further ordinary shares to maintain its shareholding in the Company at approximately 24 per cent . |
| 16 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 17 | For instance , if child benefit had been uprated fully in line with prices since 1984 , a three-child family would receive £31.20 a week from next April , whereas they will receive only £25.25p — £5.95p a week less than in 1984 , or a loss per child of £100 a year . |
| 18 | The institute found that the global average temperature , although cooler than the previous year , was still well above the average from 1951 to 1980 and in line with values for the 1980s . |
| 19 | However , in line with students as a whole , SERC specialists were also less likely to be seeking employment than those who studied on conversion Advanced Courses . |
| 20 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business were in line with expectations at $10m . |
| 21 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business much in line with expectations at $7.8m . |
| 22 | Losses on mortgage indemnity business in line with expectations at $17.0m ( $22.4m ) . |
| 23 | Losses during the full year in mortgage indemnity business , where GA has only a 4% market share , were again in line with expectations at $53.1m , including $20.9m in the fourth quarter . |
| 24 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business , where General Accident has only a 4% share , were in line with expectations at $4.4m . |
| 25 | The Transcaucasus Military District was transformed into a Group of Forces by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin , it was reported on Aug. 29 , in line with reductions of Russian forces in the region . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , in line with promises by Rocard , Cresson raised the SMIC on June 20 by 2.3 per cent to F5,522 gross monthly from July 1 , a move calculated to benefit 2,000,000 people ( 12 per cent of the workforce ) . |
| 27 | With Linford Christie , John Regis and Marcus Adam all in line for places in Barcelona , his realistic target for the summer is the European Cup for Under 23s at Gateshead on July 18 and 19 in the relay at least , if not in the 200 metres . |