Example sentences of "in parts of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Globally , Marxism has run out of steam , persisting merely as sentiment and tradition , despite its conspicuous presence in parts of the Anglo-American academy . |
| 2 | In an interview in the magazine Director to be published this week , Dr Runcie denies that there are ‘ tensions and suspicions ’ between Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street , but he points out that the Church of England is active in parts of the country where the Conservative Party has little support . |
| 3 | Where people are crowded together , particularly when public order is in question ; where hazardous materials are being moved ; where traditional industrial disciplines and organisation are breaking down , as in parts of the construction industry , there is real reason for anxiety . |
| 4 | Other stalling techniques are also deployed to detain them in the station on such days ( prolonging station business , extended conversations in parts of the station where they are less visible to management , carrying messages , and so on ) . |
| 5 | Unfortunately no situations arose during field-work where the neighbourhood police were required to use these secondary recipes , although one did state how sympathetic he felt towards adolescents in parts of Easton because ‘ they do n't stand a chance ’ there , a feeling which easily translates into sympathetic handling of situations in which youths are involved . |
| 6 | Thus , in February 1981 , in the face of a series of lightning strikes in parts of the coal industry , notably in the Welsh mining valleys , the government had to retreat and extend a subsidy for this struggling industry in a way totally at variance with its basic philosophy . |
| 7 | In parts of Punjab they must not spend even a single night in their village . |
| 8 | Not until recently did the West Sussex County Council wish to encourage the development of tourist-related activities in parts of the county other than the Channel coast , but a change in policy , provoked by the recognition of the potential of the rural hinterland for attracting tourists , allowed the new owner of the wharf warehouse to contemplate its conversion into a guest house and family dwelling because the project became eligible for grant aid from the English Tourist Board . |
| 9 | It would move councils towards a ‘ sensible pattern of rents ’ , in which they would generally be lower in parts of the country where the value of houses and flats was lower , and higher where the values were relatively high . |
| 10 | In an increasing number of cases , no margin at all , as has been the case in the past and is so today in parts of Africa . |
| 11 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
| 12 | Of the two stronger banks , both from San Francisco , Bank of America , now well recovered from its flirtation with oblivion , has signalled its national ambitions by expressing an interest in parts of what is left of Bank of New England . |
| 13 | In parts of the country , a black man between the ages of 15 and 25 is more likely to be killed than was an American soldier in Vietnam . |
| 14 | I have witnessed this expansion in parts of North America for nearly 60 years , first working as a student with a pitchfork on the harvest in Alberta . |
| 15 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 16 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 17 | By about 600 ad his authority was acknowledged only in parts of the Italian peninsula , and even there , in the following century , it became remote and ineffectual . |
| 18 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 19 | They were big , comfortable-looking farm buildings , not much different from what one might find in parts of Perthshire , except that the upper floor had a roofed balcony running along one side . |
| 20 | Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards , but around 50,000 are believed to be infected in Britain , and the disease is pandemic in parts of Africa . |
| 21 | ‘ With a glut of farming properties on the market in parts of south west England at drastically reduced prices , now is the time for them to buy , ’ Dai Jenkin says . |
| 22 | Martin Holden , of Viner Carew , explains : ‘ There is a surplus of residential building land outside main centres , particularly in parts of Cornwall , where land values have fallen by 75 per cent to less than £100,000 an acre — even in Plymouth , where land that was selling for £600,000 an acre is now fetching £200,000 . |
| 23 | Sarajevo Radio said battles were continuing near Mostar in the west between federal army forces and Croat militias seeking to widen their control in parts of Bosnia heavily populated by Croats . |
| 24 | The hill ground varied tremendously , from fairly productive grass covered hills in parts of Wales to the rock and heather that abound in the North of Scotland . |
| 25 | The geography and farm situation in parts of L'Ain was similar to that in Powys , South Wales and certain areas in Cumbria and Speyside . |
| 26 | Where efforts have been made , as in parts of the south of Italy , evidence is accumulating that , at least in the specific areas concerned , a production cooperative approach can have a profound impact on local employment and economic development . |
| 27 | Even in areas which have been virtually abandoned , as in parts of the interiors of Greece and southern Italy , it is extremely difficult to persuade owners to part with their patrimony in the interests of agricultural development . |
| 28 | Judi had always tried to rub his nose in parts of his life he just wanted to let lie there and be profitable . |
| 29 | Nitrogen deposition from air pollution ( which starts out as NOx or ammonia ) is now also sufficient in parts of East Anglia to put groundwater over the EC limit . |
| 30 | Recorded annual precipitation ranges from just over 1000mm in parts of the Broad Bay area of Lewis to over 2400 mm on some of the higher summits of Harris . |