Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there an invariant property that links edges in objects to the retinal image ? |
| 2 | Flower-lined terraces descended in tiers to the three miles of white sand beach . |
| 3 | In the early second century women continued to be portrayed with their hair piled in tiers above the brow , but the tightly restrained locks were deeply unflattering in comparison with the coiffures of Flavian portraits . |
| 4 | Lovely landscaped terraces rise in tiers above the swimming pool from where the views are quite superb . |
| 5 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 6 | During the Saturday morning rehearsal , with Beecham conducting the Vancouver Symphony , the players arranged in tiers from the podium to the back of the stage , a disquieting incident occurred : in the midst of a quiet passage in a Mozart divertimento the tympany player , one George W. Ball , accidentally dropped the cymbal , which rolled down with clanging crashes to rest at the conductor 's feet . |
| 7 | In Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls , Dr Schonfield offers a detailed explanation of how precisely the Atbash Cipher works . |
| 8 | The Germanic mind is highly amenable to the belief in correspondences between the Universe and Man — between microcosm and macrocosm . |
| 9 | LAST month 's improvement in Britain 's huge current account deficit was achieved despite a reduction in projections about the size of the country 's invisible earnings . |
| 10 | [ Obituary notice in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , vol. lxxviii , 1884 , pp. 414–16 ; Simon Adamson , Seaside Piers , 1977 ; private information . ] |
| 11 | When the change in surpluses of the three groups — consumers , producers , and government — are collectively considered , there is an overall loss resulting from trade diversion in the example depicted by Fig 1.2 . |
| 12 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 13 | There are thus significant differences between places in voting patterns generally , and in attitudes to the debate about growth and the environment , because social and demographic groups are not evenly distributed across the country . |
| 14 | However , if there are adverse exogenous shocks to the established unionized sector ( such as a worsening of outside opportunities , an adverse demand shock , or increasing polarization in attitudes to the trade union movement ) , then equilibrium wages and membership may fall below the critical level , and the union vanish from the sector . |
| 15 | The campaigners say the decision could mark a watershed in attitudes to the environment , but the local MP says the traffic problems wo n't go away . |
| 16 | Similar continuity of personnel in the Home and Welfare Ministries that administered labour affairs meant continuity in attitudes towards the ‘ obstruction of trade union organization and activity ’ ( Garon 1984 p.443 ) . |
| 17 | Part of the answer is provided by variations in attitudes towards the advantages of a welfare state system and specifically towards the major beneficiaries of that system in their context , blacks , especially black , female-headed families . |
| 18 | The most significant development in this period was the profound shift in attitudes towards the State : against the exercise of public control and more sympathetic towards the operation of the free market . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents . |
| 20 | The struggle of working class women against scarce resources and ill health continued throughout the period , while progress in terms of the reform of property laws relating to married women , of the divorce laws , and the change in attitudes towards the expression of female sexuality within marriage primarily benefited middle class women . |
| 21 | This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources . |
| 22 | Others draw back from legislation and look to a change in attitudes on the part of professionals and employers . |
| 23 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 24 | The Monnet Plan however , committed France to economic growth , with the aim of surpassing the best pre-war levels of industrial output by 1950 , and thus marked a revolutionary change in attitudes from the economic stagnation of the Third Republic . |
| 25 | These changing attitudes in part reflect changes in attitudes in the world at large but they also stem from the evolution of our concepts of ‘ mind ’ and its possible physical bases . |
| 26 | In patterns through the pear tree on the fence . |
| 27 | The cloisters ( 1172–89 ) of the abbey church are beautiful ; they are enclosed on four sides by coupled columns of stone and marble , inlaid with brilliantly coloured glass mosaic in patterns on the shafts and have richly varied carved capitals . |
| 28 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |
| 29 | A lovely memory of our weekend at Trouville in June … scene almost unchanged ! ! apart from Japanese businessmen in suits on the sand ! |
| 30 | Earlier , in September 1989 , eight human rights activists were deported from south-eastern Turkey for representing Kurdish families in suits against the regional authorities . |