Example sentences of "[verb] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 2 | The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed throughout Kathmandu in April was lifted in all areas except the Lalitpur district on May 10 . |
| 3 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 4 | In May martial law was lifted in most areas of the country and a ban on political activity was also lifted . |
| 5 | Past values and beliefs are transmitted to new members through formal induction programmes and informal working practices epitomised in such phrases as : ‘ We do things this way in this office ’ . |
| 6 | The dryness of the colour leaving the brush gives the feeling of imprecision and confusion , reflected in the experience of walking in these conditions . |
| 7 | Townsend says the aim of the book is to give enough information for people planning a trip and ‘ to try and capture at least some of the joy and excitement of walking in these mountains ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 9 | Similarly no one who has attended the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will deny that the seminars and lectures are less profitable than driving to Glencar , or Gort , and walking in those places , or wandering in the demesne of Lissadell and under the shoulder of Ben Bulben . |
| 10 | Until then the diet of the wealthy was rich in spices and sugar and involved mixing fruit , both fresh and dried , with meat — a tradition which still lingers in such things as Christmas mincemeat . |
| 11 | The team was underfinanced from the start and indeed , some of the finance Emerson did get-like some of the companions and hangers-on he began to attract in those years — was distinctly off-colour . |
| 12 | Murder is committed in those situations where D caused death by an act or omission which he knew had death as the probable or highly probable result . |
| 13 | These will give the effect of the dense reeds which grow in many areas of East Asia . |
| 14 | Trees grow in all shapes and sizes and their timbers look very different . |
| 15 | Capillaries grow in several stages : they sprout from their parent vessels , grow larger , and form hollow and leak-proof vessels . |
| 16 | Thus in a class of 31 fourth-formers , 14 pupils did not know in any terms however simple , the significance of Good Friday nor 9 of Easter Sunday ; 21 could not name one book in the New Testament and 27 one book in the Jewish Bible . |
| 17 | Allegations and denials about country hideaways , romantic recordings and Princess Di 's secret assignations fly in all directions . |
| 18 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 19 | An exception lies in those children in whom obsessive , aggressive or bizarre sexual activity shows evidence at least of a conscious knowledge of the import of the activity itself . |
| 20 | And the explanation for all of this lies in those stones . |
| 21 | ‘ The way to Caer Wydyr lies in these passages inside the rock . |
| 22 | Certainly you 'll find truths and lies in these pages , and an excited , undeceived fan's-eye view . |
| 23 | ‘ The secret of our success lies in these militias , ’ said President Najibullah . |
| 24 | To create partnerships which are incremental to understanding in both worlds , requires genuine collaboration in a trusting , learning climate , honest evaluation of experimentation and innovation and clarity about the power relationship between participating individuals and the organisations they represent . |
| 25 | Fieldwork is stressed in all years . |
| 26 | Furthermore , even if acculturation to a dominant order was a feature of early Chicago society there was , according to Castells , no need to promote this as a universal process occurring in all cities . |
| 27 | It should be added that , whilst pressure measurements are often very useful in wind-tunnel and similar studies , the pressure variations occurring in many experiments , for example in the field of free convection , are too small to be measured . |
| 28 | With atrocities occurring in many townships almost daily , a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party central committee , Musa [ Myeni , warned on May 5 that the party would deploy 100,000 armed men in Soweto township on the Johannesburg outskirts , and 250,000 nationally , unless the ANC halted its violence within seven days . |
| 29 | In addition to these signs of affective psychosis Kempe also showed features of schizophrenia , notably hallucinations , occurring in several modalities . |
| 30 | This failed to prevent the violence from spreading , with clashes between Uzbeks and Kirghiz , pogroms , and attacks on Interior Ministry buildings occurring in several localities in Osh oblast ( region ) from June 5 . |