Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Do you play better in front of close family ?
2 Now , as most of the country 's vicars are mad , and waste all their time falling dementedly in love with middle-aged lady parishioners — whatever happened to choirboys , by the way ?
3 With the offer price necessarily in excess of current market value a member 's best course may be to sell , depending on an estimation of what the company 's future performance under existing management is likely to be and the possibility of a higher offer .
4 If the question whether the subject matter is capable of passing by way of donatio mortis causa is put on one side , the three general requirements for such a gift may be stated very much as they are stated in contemplation , although not necessarily in expectation of impending death .
5 I 'm not saying necessarily in response to that resolution , but at least in the direction that we were hoping .
6 The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores .
7 The points made by Freud in the theory of psychoanalysis are tentative , especially in relation to female sexuality and to the sequences involved in psycho-sexual development .
8 In particular , areas like Knowsley and Tower Hamlets , which contain vast tracts of the poorest council housing , do not show up as especially in need of redistributional funding under the formulae used in the assessment of GRE .
9 Many statues were bolstered by struts that now appear unsightly , especially in comparison with unsupported bronze statues .
10 Leeds LEA took this duty very seriously , especially in respect of primary education .
11 For example in the case of people of Asian origin living in Britain , the expectation is much more likely to be that the main supportive bond , especially in respect of financial support , will be between sons and parents .
12 Another factor influencing the shape and level of the yield curve is government policy , especially in respect of public sector borrowing , debt management and open-market operations .
13 The equilibrium trans form may not therefore always occur and , as the temperature is raised , so the other configurations become more probable ; so also does the difference between rotational energy levels become small enough in comparison with thermal energy for the rotation to be considered as free on the surface of the bond angle cone and even , in the limit , to be considered s random or Gaussian .
14 I 'm all in favour of this rock'n'roll style .
15 Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members .
16 Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad .
17 Then she said , ‘ I can scarcely believe that two young people so obviously in love with each other could be so utterly foolish .
18 Leeds , Leicester , and the Open University geology departments do not feature very highly in relation to Scottish geology , but Cambridge , Oxford , Edinburgh and Durham score well in most of the bibliometric indicators studied here .
19 … ( 6 ) A person who , without reasonable excuse , fails to provide a specimen when required to do so in pursuance of this section is guilty of an offence .
20 So in addition to standard depreciation allowances , certain designated sectors can write off another 25 per cent of the investment against tax in the first year , while in energy saving or robotic investment the rate has gone as high as 60 per cent .
21 When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 .
22 For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her .
23 The supervisory authority is not able to grant an exemption from the information required , but may do so in respect of additional information that it has requested .
24 The Communists , critics argued , were merely in search of political stability , and security and were not attempting a world takeover .
25 This course should be adopted only in case of absolute necessity , and you should be able to plan out your time so that it is not necessary .
26 These examinations were done on an ambulatory basis and patients were readmitted only in case of recurrent cholestasis or cholangitis .
27 The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ .
28 At the 1921–2 Washington Conference Japan agreed to restore Chinese sovereignty in Shandong , but only in return for Chinese confirmation of Japan 's economic privileges there .
29 They agreed to observe the moratorium , and to resume dumping after 2007 only in consultation with other signatory states .
30 Lawrence Kohlberg 's empirical work on moral development follows , as far as its basic stance is concerned , the structure and assumptions of Jean Piaget , who has demonstrated apparently invariant sequences of change , not only in relation to moral development , but in other areas , too .
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