Example sentences of "in [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At various points in this book , we may be able to discern how changes in attitudes of curriculum planners to the purpose of the primary school manifest themselves in new ideas about languages of instruction , a new urgency in finding out about community needs , an increased commitment to the concept of basic education . |
| 2 | Together , these factors contribute to the low percentage of unemployed women claiming unemployment benefit and income support and to the stark gender differences in patterns of income maintenance among unemployed people ( Table 9.2 ) . |
| 3 | The decline of organized networks around the turn of the century was the single most striking change in patterns of cattle theft during the British period . |
| 4 | Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time . |
| 5 | In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 . |
| 6 | Its main proposals were ( i ) a 20 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2000 , with a 40 per cent cut by 2010 ; ( ii ) a ban on offshore oil drilling in state waters ; ( iii ) a halt to logging in the ancient redwood forests ; ( iv ) a requirement that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development ; and ( v ) a ban on all pesticides with the potential to cause cancer or to damage a developing foetus . |
| 7 | The report 's assumptions are based on one of the " business as usual " scenarios from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : a doubling of the world population , an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide by 180 per cent and a global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees centigrade by the end of the next century [ see ED 57 , 59/60 ] . |
| 8 | In this study we examined the distribution of nuclear DNA in crypts of background mucosa from FAP and SCRC cases by cytophotometry . |
| 9 | Some libraries have become involved in programmes of study skills for their students , particularly in some polytechnics ( eg the Polytechnic of the South Bank , Plymouth Polytechnic , and the City of London Polytechnic ) and in some technological universities ( eg Loughborough University of Technology and the University of Aston ) . |
| 10 | In cases of childhood eczema for example , the child often grows out of the condition . |
| 11 | We identify this morphology as types IV and V pancreatitis in our classification , these being nearly always encountered in cases of CBD stenosis in our experience . |
| 12 | 45:10 : in times of famine nomads from Palestine are known to have been allowed pasturage in the eastern delta . |
| 13 | From Viking times the strong settlement of the Whitby region finds a counterpart in exports of jet ornaments to west Norway . |
| 14 | If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill . |
| 15 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly 2 to 1 , according to a new report by IDC Europe . |
| 16 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly two to one , according to a new report by International Data Corp 's IDC Europe . |
| 17 | Sippel ( 1968 ) and Sibley & blatt ( 1976 ) have applied CL in investigations of silica authigenesis in sandstones . |
| 18 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 19 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 20 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 21 | For where the first stage , the mechanised production in factories of consumer goods for an existing colonial market virtually monopolised by Britain , promised and provided immediate and enormous profit on a relatively modest outlay , the second did not . |
| 22 | In this regard , Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) showed that prostacyclin formation in segments of blood vessel from cholesterol-fed monkeys was reduced . |
| 23 | ‘ I guess that things would have to change very , very materially in conditions of childcare support in this country for us to see a dramatic rise [ in women returners ] . |
| 24 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 25 | The comparative element is continued in studies of nationality problems in modern Europe , of the politics of divided societies and of the record of partition as a problem-solving technique . |
| 26 | These radially-directed nuees are an example of a phenomenon known as the base surge or ground surge , first recognized in studies of test explosions of nuclear weapons . |
| 27 | Specific examples of the effects of such transgressions have been noted in studies of settlement patterns in coastal and estuarine regions ( Hallam 1961 ; Hawkes 1968 ; Thompson 1980 ) . |
| 28 | Some clues might be found in studies of brain activity in peeking birds . |
| 29 | The standard rate of production is 6 prescriptions/ hour ; which in terms of work content in time is 10 minutes/ prescription . |
| 30 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |