Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Times , an anonymous critic wrote : ‘ Resourcefully fey and lyrically frivolous , the new ‘ diversion with music ’ at the Lyric , Hammersmith — Share My Lettuce erratically follows in more familiar ( and more varied ) idioms the new directions in revue signposted by Cranks … |
| 2 | Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) . |
| 3 | Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) . |
| 4 | But is the leap in money justified , John ? |
| 5 | Is not that because many Tory Members are up to their necks in money received for commercial lobbying of one sort or another ? |
| 6 | While the increase in both these benefits is substantial , it is dwarfed by the increase in money spent on means-tested benefits such as supplementary benefit and housing benefit . |
| 7 | Management fees of investment trusts are considerably lower than those of unit trusts because of the wide disparities in money spent on advertising , although with the changes in rules on advertising for investment trusts , their fees are likely to rise . |
| 8 | ONE WAY TRAFFIC IN DIRECTION INDICATED |
| 9 | ‘ We now have no similar indexes ’ , writes Mushkin , ‘ of differences in income associated with gradations in health . |
| 10 | Interestingly , the largest structure in this formulation is not the exchange or transaction of the Birmingham School analyses , but a claim by one speaker which gives rise to fixed possibilities for moves of support or counter claim , in patterns referred to as context spaces . |
| 11 | But as there must always be some kind of observer-effect in patterns revealed in this analytic way , the position of the observer , and the preconceptions that he or she brings to the act of observing , must be accounted for at every phase of the research . |
| 12 | In Caithness there are many upright monoliths from the Bronze Age , some standing alone , others in patterns suffused with some ancient significance . |
| 13 | The club is also responsible for marathon winkle-eating competitions , and its elderly members sometimes appear in suits made of thousands of shells . |
| 14 | Injections of collagen , the protein in connective tissue , can build up soft depressions in skin caused by acne , age , injury , or disease . |
| 15 | The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds . |
| 16 | The total number of people aged 65 and over in institutions increased by 30% between the two censuses , but because of population growth this represents an increase in proportion of only 0.5% , from 4.2% to 4.7% . |
| 17 | In fact some of our more ancient cities and boroughs have Charters still in existence granted in Saxon times giving to local areas powers which were in effect autonomous government . |
| 18 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 19 | After four years of training , in a homely laboratory atmosphere where scientists working in shifts conversed ( or ‘ signed ’ ) to Washoe and to each other exclusively in Ameslan , she had mastered the use and recognition of 132 signs together with the ability often to pair two of them ( but rarely more than two ) in significant combinations and under appropriate circumstances . |
| 20 | Jade accessories featured in rituals designed to ensure good relations between emperors and the celestial powers on whom they depended to ensure the continued mandate of heaven . |
| 21 | Long-term increases in hours worked with a client had to be agreed by the development officer in advance . |
| 22 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 23 | Workers are not able to choose to trade small adjustments in hours worked against take-home pay . |
| 24 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 25 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 26 | This expresses weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared ( W/H² ; ) . |
| 27 | This was one of the more powerful myths leading to the present government 's keen interest in policies geared towards the encouragement of small firms . |
| 28 | Like advertising erm language , you know like erm , any courses that you study most of the text books will always be in in male identified language . |
| 29 | Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry . |
| 30 | To her ears the pattering and shshing of the water gurgling in drains sounded like a sort of singing every now and then , an aural counterpart to her inward calling his name , calling him to her . |