Example sentences of "[adj] and in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation .
2 Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation .
3 In general the activities of the masses were though of as mindless but they were at least non-political and in many cases they even encouraged the acceptance of social norms and new routines necessary to urban and industrial life .
4 Old age begins officially on retirement but the majority of people in their sixties and many in their seventies remain reasonably fit , independent , active and content and in many cases they will remain so until the end of their lives .
5 Er , the present situation is that there 's complex erm , arrangements for the exercise of votes , basically unanimity is required and in those circumstances we as a shareholder can not exercise material influence which is a necessary pre-condition for equity accounting .
6 Harem-masters are always conspicuously different in appearance from their females — frequently they are larger and in many cases they have special male weapons on their heads .
7 In some ways it was better and in some ways it was worse .
8 When newly formed it is flexible and elastic and in many larvae it remains so over much of the body .
9 The ventral interradial areas are covered by spinelets similar to the dorsal side although they are usually smaller and in some specimens they may resemble rugose granules .
10 The answer is never one the minimum we 've come across in an organization is two the typical is five to ten and in some organizations it 's going on fifteen .
11 All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ .
12 The roof of the Victorian section was not water-tight and in some places it was leaking like a sieve .
13 A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so .
14 However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me .
15 Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six .
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