Example sentences of "in [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General areas of intended use can be included , as a cross check , in case of errors in selection . |
| 2 | As you did at the Swan you will separate your collection sending one portion to me and retaining the other in case of accidents by sea … |
| 3 | WHEN Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie went to a party in London , a posse of armed police stood by in case of attacks by Muslim fanatics . |
| 4 | In such tests samples should be stored only at room temperature ( or in case of samples for export markets at the conditions of the market ) . |
| 5 | He graduated PhD in 1937 and returned to Glasgow as Gardiner lecturer in pathology of diseases of infancy and childhood and pathologist to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 6 | Although the later words of section 63(2) provide that the expense incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of a benefit includes a proper proportion of any expense relating partly to the benefit and partly to other matters , I consider that the expenses incurred in provision of places for fee paying pupils were wholly incurred in order to provide those places . |
| 7 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandlebrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 8 | Included in this last group is , for example , the ‘ insurance principle ’ in social security , adopted in variety of ways by various governments who clearly attempted to learn from each other 's experiences . |
| 9 | The successful party will often receive money in payment of costs from the losing party . |
| 10 | Problems problems over the alloc because the allocation is mainly based on pupil numbers and not on pupil 's needs , by the use of average salaries and not actual salaries , by changes in level of grants for support and training , and the needs of the school and the children . |
| 11 | The judge has power under s 65(1) of the 1984 Act to refer to the district judge or to a referee ( N 280 ) for inquiry and report : ( 1 ) any proceedings which require any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which can not , in the opinion of the judge , conveniently be made before him ; ( 2 ) any proceedings where the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account ; ( 3 ) with the consent of the parties , any other proceedings ; ( 4 ) subject to any right to have particular cases tried with a jury , any question arising in any proceedings . |
| 12 | The US Exxon Corporation on March 13 agreed to pay a record sum in settlement of claims over the Exxon Valdez oil spillage off the coast of Alaska in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |
| 13 | They demanded fulfilment of promises of improved living and working conditions , which the government had made in settlement of strikes in July 1989 [ see pp. 36826-27 ] , the resignation of the USSR Council of Ministers because of its handling of the economy , and the depoliticization of the Army , police , judiciary and education system . |
| 14 | I liked Mike Mill 's letter In support of estuaries in the same issue . |
| 15 | In 1706 Gwynne blundered badly once more in permitting his name to be subscribed to a paper written by the philosopher Leibniz , in support of moves in England to invite over the Hanoverian heir presumptive to the throne , published in the form of an open Letter to Lord Stamford , the effect of which was to alienate both Queen Anne and the Electress Sophia . |
| 16 | It is for the councils to determine how they distribute funding , but the Bill gives the councils wide powers to be used in support of students with special education needs . |
| 17 | BGS 's approach to urban geochemistry is both flexible and multidisciplinary , and can be oriented both towards the solution of specific problems and to large-scale systematic surveys in support of programmes for urban improvement , industrial and urban renewal , and planning . |
| 18 | The approach developed by BGS is both flexible and multidisciplinary and can be oriented either towards the solution of specific problems or to large-scale systematic surveys in support of programmes for urban improvement , industrial and urban renewal and planning . |
| 19 | The two December marches by right-wing women were important public relations exercises in support of hardliners in the government . |
| 20 | The South African Law Commission would be asked to report on the protection of the rights of citizens , " as well as all collective units , associations , minorities and nations " , in a future constitution , by examining a variety of constitutional models ; this investigation would be used in support of negotiations on a new constitution [ see below ; see also p. 36915 for recommendations of Law Commission working paper of March 1989 ] . |
| 21 | Bush repeated on Oct. 24 the comparison of Iraqi President Saddam Hussain with Hitler and denounced the " rape of Kuwait " and Iraqi " crimes against humanity " , while at a rally on Oct. 30 ( campaigning in support of Republicans in the mid-term congressional elections on Nov. 6 ) he gave warnings of the possibility of a US military offensive , urging the US public to " stay together in support of our kids halfway around the world " . |
| 22 | Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group . |
| 23 | In any event , in the court 's opinion , the submissions which counsel made in support of grounds of appeal 1 , 2 and 3 were misconceived . |
| 24 | The strike was in support of demands for better pay and conditions following unsuccessful negotiations with TCL . |
| 25 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 26 | Kim Dae Jung , head of the main opposition Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , began a hunger strike on Oct. 8 in support of demands for greater social and economic justice , the implementation of local autonomy measures , the dissolution of the DSC and the abandonment of plans to transform the current presidential political system into Cabinet government . |
| 27 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 28 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 29 | Students at the University of Conakry were on strike for most of November 1990 in support of demands for increases in their grants and for improvements in the quality of teaching and of library and other facilities . |
| 30 | April and May 1991 saw a series of rallies across the country organized by Civic Alliance in support of demands for the resignation of Iliescu and the government , and on May 16 there was a protest strike by 800,000 Romanian farm and food industry workers in support of demands for higher wages . |