Example sentences of "[adj] in the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were already seeing the effects of this in the softening of attitudes in bank advertisements . |
| 2 | But who is this in the case of nitrates : is it the farmers , the consumers who buy high nitrate-produced food , or the fertiliser manufacturers ? |
| 3 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 4 | There 's certainly a lot of passion about this in the house of lords . |
| 5 | They do this in the form of infidelities but they have very different consequences and conclusions , partly due to the differences in their characters and also their circumstances . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , is it too far fetched to include this in the collection of stories of guardsmen , telephone engineers and building site workers who went to Ken 's home ? |
| 7 | I was left cruelly at the mercy of the ‘ sames ’ : a different in the middle of identicals . |
| 8 | Matters were quite different in the case of trusts . |
| 9 | This is especially clear in the case of bilinguals who code switch , whose personas may be indexed — though only in a gross way — by language . |
| 10 | It 's effectiveness is clear in the glare of lights , when compared to no high-visibility clothing at all . |
| 11 | Weather forecasts , reliable in the event of storms , but otherwise somewhat fanciful , are broadcast in English from Rhodes . |
| 12 | While , admittedly , these were not normally conspicuous in the case of women , for Zeinab they were substantial . |
| 13 | This assumption has been most conspicuous in the context of experiments comparing manual response times with vocal reaction time . |
| 14 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 15 | Turnout was up by 400,000 ( i.e. a drop by half in the level of abstentions ) compared with the elections of 1989 [ for which see p. 37487 ] . |
| 16 | Everybody knows how forward they are in this regard in North America , but in my experience it 's just the same in Australia , Argentina , the Soviet Union and elsewhere : for a rain soaked water girdled nation we really do not come very high in the league of comforts and efficiency . |
| 17 | To return to the example , if the machine finds that one particular reply to A is especially strong ( leads to an unusually large change in score ) , it remembers that fact , and puts that reply high in the list of plays to be looked at when B and C are examined . |
| 18 | A more structural view is that of Marxist feminist writers who have argued that the family exists , not for the harmonious delight of its members , but rather because it is a source of benefit to capital , since women can be made to labour for free in the reproduction of wage-labourers . |
| 19 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 20 | Be very sparing in the use of drums in passages where they are unable to supply a note of the harmony . |
| 21 | The pressures of the new society were equally manifest in the emigration of Jews from Judaea . |
| 22 | If one were to follow Descartes and attribute that variability to the mind , then animals who were mindless in the opinion of Descartes and Kant would react reliably and predictably to injury . |
| 23 | As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known . |
| 24 | So what this example shows is that a sentence which seems to contain one assertion can turn out to contain many different assertions , some in the form of presuppositions . |
| 25 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 26 | They are interested in the accumulation of insects that feed off carcasses . |
| 27 | Homer was not interested in the origin of things and had no cosmogony beyond the idea that water is the origin of all things . |
| 28 | At this stage the Left in politics was clearly interested in the development of alternatives to the asylums and this interest fed into the caucus policy-making . |
| 29 | The British participants were particularly interested in the brand of signs which seem to be generally understood by the deaf of most of the European countries . |
| 30 | It 's also knowing and being interested in the history of things , which I do n't think Maggie has at all . |