Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 2 | It meant that business was devalued relative to the professions so that even now a career in business ranks second in the minds of many new graduates to a career in one of the more established professions . |
| 3 | Thus the level , and most importantly the change in the level , of any source of revenue should be set locally … ’ |
| 4 | Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently . |
| 5 | Calcretes developed in this way are thickest and at the greatest depth in the soil profile in areas of 100 400 mm ( 4–16 in ) of rainfall especially on the temperate margins of deserts ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) and become thinner and much nearer the surface in the arid regions proper . |
| 6 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 7 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |
| 8 | Included in the future home will be devices which will allow the owner to be welcomed home to lights switched on , curtains drawn and possibly even the dinner in the oven . |
| 9 | The weakness in understanding of geomorphic processes ( and hence also a weakness in the understanding of the origin of landforms ) has not been confined to the American continent . |
| 10 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 11 | Another death , but not as a result of the War , was that of Alfred Caldecott , a founder bondholder of some significance , who in 1913 had become Town Clerk after J.F. Cooper and simultaneously also a Partner in Cooper Son & Caldecott . |
| 12 | In the West , she would no doubt have gone on to pass ‘ A ’ levels or the baccalaureate with enough marks to ensure a place at university and then perhaps a career in law or medicine , banking or politics . |
| 13 | When the main doors were thrown open , there was a general rush of men and women in all directions , carrying umbrellas and jumping over the pews to get to the very nearest available seats , and almost immediately every seat in the church was occupied and great crowds were standing against the wall in the back galleries . |
| 14 | We have considered at length why natural monopoly leads to socially inefficient outcomes : too little output and too high a price in that industry . |
| 15 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 16 | Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right . |
| 17 | But just recently a stage in the delivery had broken down . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's no need — ’ Sophie began , but once more the look in Helen 's eyes checked her . |
| 19 | Sometimes this success is at the expense of food production , but more often an increase in productivity is achieved across all crops . |
| 20 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 21 | Or complaint examiner , but even then the investment in that person if they come at the end of the year go , I I would say , what a waste . |
| 22 | A development plan may , for instance , show the line of a proposed road , though not necessarily the year in which it is to be constructed . |
| 23 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |