Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In The Times , an anonymous critic wrote : ‘ Resourcefully fey and lyrically frivolous , the new ‘ diversion with music ’ at the Lyric , Hammersmith — Share My Lettuce erratically follows in more familiar ( and more varied ) idioms the new directions in revue signposted by Cranks …
2 Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) .
3 Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) .
4 Is not that because many Tory Members are up to their necks in money received for commercial lobbying of one sort or another ?
5 While the increase in both these benefits is substantial , it is dwarfed by the increase in money spent on means-tested benefits such as supplementary benefit and housing benefit .
6 Management fees of investment trusts are considerably lower than those of unit trusts because of the wide disparities in money spent on advertising , although with the changes in rules on advertising for investment trusts , their fees are likely to rise .
7 ‘ We now have no similar indexes ’ , writes Mushkin , ‘ of differences in income associated with gradations in health .
8 Interestingly , the largest structure in this formulation is not the exchange or transaction of the Birmingham School analyses , but a claim by one speaker which gives rise to fixed possibilities for moves of support or counter claim , in patterns referred to as context spaces .
9 But as there must always be some kind of observer-effect in patterns revealed in this analytic way , the position of the observer , and the preconceptions that he or she brings to the act of observing , must be accounted for at every phase of the research .
10 In Caithness there are many upright monoliths from the Bronze Age , some standing alone , others in patterns suffused with some ancient significance .
11 The club is also responsible for marathon winkle-eating competitions , and its elderly members sometimes appear in suits made of thousands of shells .
12 Injections of collagen , the protein in connective tissue , can build up soft depressions in skin caused by acne , age , injury , or disease .
13 The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds .
14 The total number of people aged 65 and over in institutions increased by 30% between the two censuses , but because of population growth this represents an increase in proportion of only 0.5% , from 4.2% to 4.7% .
15 In fact some of our more ancient cities and boroughs have Charters still in existence granted in Saxon times giving to local areas powers which were in effect autonomous government .
16 The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes .
17 Long-term increases in hours worked with a client had to be agreed by the development officer in advance .
18 In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year .
19 Workers are not able to choose to trade small adjustments in hours worked against take-home pay .
20 The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate .
21 ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete .
22 This expresses weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared ( W/H² ; ) .
23 This was one of the more powerful myths leading to the present government 's keen interest in policies geared towards the encouragement of small firms .
24 Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry .
25 To her ears the pattering and shshing of the water gurgling in drains sounded like a sort of singing every now and then , an aural counterpart to her inward calling his name , calling him to her .
26 That , that is the , the change in exceptionals compared with nineteen ninety .
27 In 1851 the Nevills acquired , in addition to their London house , an estate in Sussex known as Dangstein , with a large neo-Grecian mansion , built in the 1830s .
28 In fact , those ideas continued to be strengthened throughout the 1920s in essays written by Stieglitz associates , such as Oscar Bluemner , Louis Kalonyme , and Lewis Mumford .
29 London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) .
30 Interrogatories can be twice administered without leave save in cases referred to arbitration under Ord 19 , r 2(3) .
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