Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , returning from Chartres to Paris in 1141 , sought him out in order to facilitate his own preparation for teaching ; he was thenceforward in close touch with Adam until his own departure from Paris in 1146 . |
| 2 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 3 | For several months intermittent Vulcanian activity continued , hurling ash between four and eight kilometres in the air , but died down somewhat in early 1956 . |
| 4 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 5 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 6 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 7 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 8 | In one or other of these ways , seeds are usually produced abundantly in normal seasons . |
| 9 | Ken is now launching the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra , the first rehearsal of which will take place next Saturday at 2pm in Methodist College . |
| 10 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , seedlings survive better in stony soil . |
| 12 | That will help them cope better in mixed business situations . |
| 13 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 14 | PC WEATHERFAX — the best FAX system now even better in NEW Version 5 |
| 15 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 16 | He could run and jump and climb much better in bare feet , and he could do it all without making a sound . |
| 17 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 18 | The FAO fears a mass extinction of native breeds which survive better in harsh conditions , and the loss of crucial disease-resistant genes . |
| 19 | Why do my titles come out better in French than in English ? he wrote . |
| 20 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 21 | Different kinds of signals work better in different environments . |
| 22 | and medicine they actually did slightly better in social studies , arts and language subjects . |
| 23 | Highly strung horses do better in loose boxes ( stables ) either in a barn or in a yard |
| 24 | The cry , as so often and so disastrously in European history , was for revenge and preparations for a new invasion began immediately . |
| 25 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |
| 26 | The violence in Uzbekistan , which erupted suddenly in early June 1989 , swiftly became the bloodiest in Soviet peacetime history . |
| 27 | She was suddenly in alien territory again , being accused of being somebody she could never be , except on stage with a script in her hand . |
| 28 | As she made her way across to the church steps she found herself suddenly in bright sunlight and away from the crowds . |
| 29 | Talk about the contribution that facial expressions , gestures and tone of voice can make to a speaker 's meaning , eg in ironic and sarcastic uses of language . |
| 30 | Make a more assured and selective use of a wider range of grammatical and lexical features , characteristic of different styles , that are appropriate for topic , purpose and audience , eg in impersonal writing choosing vocabulary that does not betray attitudes or feelings ; in poetic writing choosing vocabulary that conveys attitudes , responses or emotions . |