Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance . |
| 2 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 3 | The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus . |
| 4 | Among the reasons for this is the subtle change in relationship which occurs , enabling the teacher to be seen more often alongside the pupil , a person of humour and unexpected worldly interests , taking part in the everyday activities of life , sharing the triumphs and disasters of such occasions and bonded by unexpected confidences . |
| 5 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | He failed to recognize , or understand , the subtle change in emphasis which had taken place . |
| 7 | Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force . |
| 8 | He hesitated a moment , his eyes growing accustomed to the subtle change in lighting , then crossed the room , quickly , silently , and stood beside the bed . |
| 9 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 10 | He sensed the subtle change in her , which was possibly betrayed by the firm manner in which she gripped the hand that moved towards her skirt waistband . |
| 11 | It was mainly due to a subtle change in Francis . |
| 12 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 13 | A subtle change in psychology . |
| 14 | It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role . |
| 15 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 16 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 17 | The interrelationships between these concepts involve a shift from the descriptive framework in which thoughts and memories can be described as conscious , preconscious or unconscious — and feelings as either conscious or unconscious , but not preconscious — to a more dynamic framework of the psychic life of human beings . |
| 18 | The British Ceramic Research Association , for instance , have a routine impact test for ceramic tiles in which a loosely supported square tile is struck a measured blow in the centre of one flat face . |
| 19 | The acute rise in blood glucose concentrations was induced by an intravenous bolus injection of a glucose 20% solution 45 minutes before the start of CCK-33 infusion . |
| 20 | The bequest was for ‘ the spread of Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form , and to the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion . ’ |
| 21 | Until then Britain , which had taken the initiative in founding WEU out of the wreckage of the EDC , tended to place little credence in it . |
| 22 | For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ . |
| 23 | Students who lose one or two days tuition because of the Easter holiday weekend will receive a pro-rata reduction in tuition fees . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 25 | Further , new theories suggest there is some considerable thermoregulatory advantage in being bipedal . |
| 26 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 27 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 28 | For example , Cambridge , the largest branch in the District with a membership of 250 , serving a population estimated at 67,000 in 1937 had a quota allocation of a little over £24 . |
| 29 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 30 | Intravenous administration of acetaldehyde elicited a prompt rise in blood pressure and increase in bronchial resistance associated with augmentation of blood histamine concentration . |