Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 2 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 3 | There is no way in which I can vote for a guillotine which so severely curtails debate in Committee . |
| 4 | ‘ Black magic ’ is apparently now considered racist in America so the term ‘ Chinaman ’ must also be the same , ’ Professor Jones said . |
| 5 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 6 | Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 8 | Determinism in principle does not necessarily imply predictability in practice . |
| 9 | This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite . |
| 10 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 11 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 12 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 13 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 14 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 15 | Youth ( a comparative term in this context ) and experience do not normally go hand in hand . |
| 16 | Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about its progress . |
| 17 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 18 | As Schwab ( 1964 ) has pointed out , one of the features of Plato 's scheme is that it does not primarily classify knowledge in terms of what it is of or about but in terms of its quality — its degrees of reality . |
| 19 | The first line — ’ Our Father which art in heaven , hallowed be thy name ’ has not yet given way in children 's parlance to ’ Our Father in heaven , may your name be hallowed ’ , or , ’ Our Father in heaven , may your holy name be honoured . ’ |
| 20 | have not yet produced recovery in America . |
| 21 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 22 | But despite such ribald repartee , The Joyriders appear calmly determined in the face of various , invariably logistical , hassles suffered by the handful of Scottish bands not currently claiming residence in Bellshill . |
| 23 | Studies still often address homosexuality in conjunction with child molesting . |
| 24 | Owners of bed and breakfast establishments nearly always require payment in advance and they are now refusing to take people on social security benefits who are not actually placed and paid for by the local authority . |
| 25 | Charlie Hatton was a cocky little lorry driver who had probably never set foot in Mayfair all his life . |
| 26 | Two years ago Mr Loveluck-Edwards won the Law Society 's annual Golden Dick Award as best dressed solicitor in Bridgend . |
| 27 | A medallion design can be anything based around a dominant central form , and is arguably the most frequently encountered scheme in rugs from every producing country , with the exception of the Soviet Union and Afghanistan . |
| 28 | The most frequently occurring vowel in English is , which is always associated with weak syllables . |
| 29 | SPONSORSHIP has become the most hotly debated subject in television . |
| 30 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |