Example sentences of "to [noun pl] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These modifications pertain to improvements in the inspection and operation of locking and vent mechanisms . |
| 2 | An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public . |
| 3 | His main thesis was that the rapid rise in earnings in advanced industrial societies was due to a large extent to improvements in the education and skills of workers . |
| 4 | It was also felt that the system proposed in the final user requirement would lead to improvements in the working conditions in the Registry , and , by introducing more interesting and rewarding procedures at this level , generally improve staff morale . |
| 5 | Talks between the government and opposition parties in the summer and autumn of 1989 led to improvements in the detention centres . |
| 6 | These modifications ( which amount mostly to improvements in the quality of pots , switches and plugs ) should make a significant difference to the way your wireless system and guitar interact . |
| 7 | The Government have given renewed priority to improvements in the infrastructure — in roads and railways and other transport . |
| 8 | The findings will contribute to improvements in the effectiveness of health education materials concerned with substance abuse . |
| 9 | These increases are attributed ( Floud , Wachter , and Gregory 1990 ) to improvements in the diet of the London poor . |
| 10 | ( If you think that you are a SAD sufferer then contact your doctor. ) ( 1 ) Most SAD cases are referred to clinics in the months December to April . |
| 11 | This has resulted in poorly-engineered products — particularly true for Motorola 's C compiler , Version 1.233 , for the DSP56001 which is hopelessly inefficient and inserts NOPs ( no operation instructions ) after every three or four compiled instructions due to pipeliners in the processor . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's version , with a blue dial , was catalogued and estimated at $5,000–7,000 , but , to gasps in the saleroom , reached $80,000 ( £50,000 ) . |
| 13 | Unless the ‘ cuts ’ are by a famous wood engraver such as Bewick , not much attention is paid to illustrations in the text ; but there is enormous demand for certain types of ‘ plates ’ . |
| 14 | There 's far more interesting activity taking place in Brighton than there is in any other single borough area of the whole of the South East region , and that 's reflected in the amount of money which we give to activities in the Brighton area . |
| 15 | Britain , the self-assured Palmerston included , reacted too slowly to shifts in the balance of forces in Europe after 1848 and found her power to influence Continental affairs substantially reduced . |
| 16 | The alternative may be prices that tend to be sticky , unresponsive to shifts in the market . |
| 17 | The investigators ' case study company is undertaking internal re-organisation precisely in order to enable it to respond quickly to transformations in the market place created by , for example , new investor protection legislation , the government withdrawal from earnings related pensions ( SERPS ) and increased competition in the intermediary market . |
| 18 | According to employers in the retailing sector contacted in the course of our case studies , such evening/weekend jobs are categorised as part-time , but the persons doing them do not have any special " temporary " status . |
| 19 | In the schedules issued by the Catering Wages Councils to employers in the trade the following terms describe the areas : |
| 20 | Assuming that the organisation that is established to give help to prisoners in the Caribbean is based in England or Wales and is unconnected with any other charity , it will find it difficult to persuade the Inland Revenue that its activities are wholly charitable unless it is registered with the Charity Commission . |
| 21 | Although the officers of these contrasting units might be held responsible for both the good and the bad behaviour , there is a touch of the ‘ kind ’ and the ‘ nasty ’ treatment often meted out to prisoners in the hope of gaining information . |
| 22 | For since that day when he had made his accusations , tearing her heart to shreds in the process , Jake had refused to have any more to do with her . |
| 23 | Gloucester18pts Bath27 THE sight of David Campese drifting across field from the far wing and cutting even the New Zealand defence to shreds in the World Cup persuaded Bath that this was an attacking move worth investigating . |
| 24 | For the robot to understand an English command , it must compute the semantics of the input text , i.e. determine the senses of the expression and refer these senses to objects in the environment , before the intended action can be taken . |
| 25 | An unusual feature for a mid-range CAD package is the ability to generate a bill of parts from attributes assigned to objects in the drawing . |
| 26 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 27 | This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area . |
| 28 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 29 | It 's an infallible indicator of unpopularity , according to experts in the mail room . |
| 30 | Again , the provisions broadly only apply to acts in the UK and it is a defence to show that a person reasonably believed that his act or conduct would not create and impression that was false or misleading . |