Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Its all a little bit like a fairy tale , is n't it ? " she whispered as they filed into the throne room with the other guests , and he nodded eagerly in reply . |
| 2 | She glanced at the girl standing eagerly in front of her . |
| 3 | Thus in yaws-endemic areas , where the disease is largely spread non-venereally in childhood , there is little opportunity for syphilis to spread , because of the degree of cross-immunity in the community . |
| 4 | This agenda-setting thesis is very plausible and usually treated as an established law of social science in introductory textbooks , though much more sceptically in research reports . |
| 5 | While welcoming in principle the SIB 's recent proposals for simplification of the rules , Mr Bell said : ‘ Any changes , no matter how desirable , must however be implemented sensibly in order not to increase unnecessarily the already considerable costs of the regime , which in our case can only be borne by the policy holders . ’ |
| 6 | In the way in which , down the years , it has kept its responsibilities as a cultural centre sensibly in step with its growing commercial importance and prosperity , it is something of a model . |
| 7 | As a result , the ‘ inner city problem ’ has changed somewhat in character since it was first recognized as a major political issue in the mid 1970s . |
| 8 | It was through such ascendancy that ‘ the power of the uncles , ’ from which Leonard appears to have suffered somewhat in adolescence , obtruded itself on the maturing boy . |
| 9 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 10 | Somewhat in contrast to these findings about Thatcher and Kinnock , the visibility of all ‘ other ’ Conservative and Labour politicians ( taken in each case as a collective , unspecified ‘ other ’ ) became more predictable as the election approached . |
| 11 | Somewhat in contrast to these findings about Thatcher and Kinnock , the visibility of all ‘ other ’ Conservative and Labour politicians , taken in each case as a collective ‘ other ’ , became more predictable as the election approached . |
| 12 | This is somewhat in contrast to the photographs of former collaborator George Sutkus which provide the unpopulated settings , the places which the onlooker can choose to inhabit . |
| 13 | This master of Enfield Grammar School neglected scholastic responsibility somewhat in favour of his extensive hothouses filled with exotic plants and his letter to Richardson recounted a need for restocking after a disastrous winter . |
| 14 | Following Schmalensee ( 1982 ) the area marked A may be written as the triangular area to which it approximates : where unc is the price-marginal cost margin , unc is sales revenue at current prices and unc is a number somewhat in excess of one because marginal cost is falling . |
| 15 | Most medieval English dies are similar , but the few ancient dies which have survived differ somewhat in shape ( more conical , no square projection ) and in metal ( bronze rather than iron ) . |
| 16 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 17 | Gorbachev was at this time on an official visit to West Germany , which was curtailed somewhat in view of domestic developments . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , over the past 30 years statutory regulation has diminished somewhat in importance in France and collective bargaining has developed considerably , doing much more than filling the gaps left by legislation . |
| 19 | We might add that , though property from land or , more commonly , from urban real-estate , remained an important source of bourgeois income , especially among the middle and lower bourgeoisie in areas of lagging industrialisation , it was already diminishing somewhat in importance . |
| 20 | If he was annoyed , Zborowski smothered his feelings : he was somewhat in awe of Modigliani who was , after all , a gentleman . |
| 21 | Colonel Goreng , a rural thug with ribbon on his chest and scrambled egg on his cap , was somewhat in awe of the antecedents of his young wife . |
| 22 | Lacking somewhat in definition , the wines of Sacy are , however , solid and dependable and , with those of neighbouring Villedommange , rank as the best wines of the Petite Montagne . |
| 23 | planaria tend to shun the light and move towards the dark , they are sensitive to touch and keep the undersides of their body in contact with solid objects , move towards food , and tend to move upstream in water currents . |
| 24 | Alcoholism , depression and an intensity of Presbyterian self-chastisement were abundantly in evidence , with the occasional nervous collapse or suicide . |
| 25 | Calcium is found most abundantly in milk . |
| 26 | Colours may be overlaid , one over another , to produce an effect that is not unlike watercolour to look at , although of course it is not watercolour ; it is an alcohol based ink which dries very quickly — almost instantaneously in fact — and encourages rapid expression . |
| 27 | ’ Furthermore in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 Lord Roskill said , at p. 334 : ‘ … |
| 28 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 29 | Japan tries to do better in software engineering by emphasising teamwork , ‘ Team members who work together are , in their collective wisdom , far more effective than individuals working alone , ’ says Yukio Mizuno , associate senior vice-president at NEC . |
| 30 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |