Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Indirect effects include : ( i ) reductions in the goods and services required to care for the sick ; ( ii ) increases in output resulting from freeing of resources previously used by healthy people to avoid sickness ; ( iii ) the output resulting from any population increase due to a rise in the birth rate , as might result from better health conditions ; ( iv ) any net output resulting from changes in attitudes and in social and political organisation that might be a consequence of better health conditions .
2 Both communities suffer continual harassment from a blatantly racist police force , they face discrimination in courts and in prison .
3 Other dinosaurs , namely the duckbilled hadrosaurs — herbivorous versions of T. Rex — were found with fossilized ribs that frequently revealed healed breaks , hinting that they may have been involved in fights or in ritualized trials of strength in which their massive hind feet were used .
4 When children have been taken into care at a very early age , and have lived in institutions until after their third birthday , or have experienced several changes of foster mother during this time , they have sometimes failed to form any secure affectional bond or attachment .
5 There would seem to be ample justification for preventive interventions aimed at reducing feelings of helplessness , if it were possible , and of enhancing feelings of self-esteem for women raised in institutions or for other reasons experiencing a marked lack of care in childhood .
6 Although only small minorities of the whole elderly population aged 65 or over live in institutions or with younger relatives , the proportions among the over 80's in these types of ‘ supported ’ households are much higher .
7 Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings .
8 How wonderful it would be if young people could be encouraged to visit the elderly , both in institutions and in their own homes !
9 But did he desire the well-groomed young woman in high-heels and with figure held firmly in place by a good foundation garment , as much as the callow , untidy girl , so soft to touch and hold , he had first known ?
10 And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal .
11 Alison , on the other hand , has expertise in audits and in specific accountancy and tax areas .
12 On the streets , in meetings and in work , I began to dread women 's perceptiveness and intuition for fear they would penetrate my three-dimensional protection , silence , an accepted assumed heterosexuality and aloofness .
13 In chains and at the mercy of that detestable man !
14 Fresh and brackish marshes and pools , also in saltmarshes and on shore .
15 ACE genotype ( DD more frequent in cases than in controls ) : Population ( different relative frequency of cases and controls in the 4 populations ) : Heterogeneity of ACE genotype effect across populations :
16 While waiting we watched a small number of trusted prisoners in ragged white cotton shirts , shorts and head-dress come and go apparently freely through the outer gate , engaged in errands or in work in the nearby gardens .
17 But it is important that in rehearsals and in performance the singers and the players can hear one another .
18 For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes .
19 He spent his early time with the company in personnel and from 1976 moved into the textiles side of the business .
20 This is usually a standard ten per cent in contracts but in practice is usually agreed at five per cent .
21 The group is already achieving some success , both in altering the detailed specifications in contracts and in challenging longer term mental health strategy .
22 Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished .
23 This style in plain colours — light & dark , then into the big rounded ‘ beagle ’ collars which went into all colours — and in checks & in different materials : cotton , cotton/poly , Oxfords , wool mixes , etc .
24 By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle , stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes .
25 But the end of the Iran-Iraq war led to a precipitous decline in exports and to the bankruptcy of two major firms : Avibras and Engesa .
26 He has won numerous scholarships and prizes and has performed in recitals and as an accompanist throughout England and in several Continental countries .
27 And yet , curiously enough , there is no mention of Jude in Acts or in any other New Testament documents — at least not under that name .
28 The Department of the Environment has become involved in discussions as to whether a local authority was entitled to specify that a contractor for refuse collection must hire council vehicles , or to refuse permission to outside tenderers to use a council depot ( Hughes 1989:20 ) .
29 Gas was used in houses and for street lights from the early nineteenth century .
30 Given this , CL affords a rapid means of detecting different quartz grain populations in sandstones and in ascertaining their provenance .
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