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

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1 It is not possible to control cost in isolation because of the interdependence of quality , cost and time .
2 If you are absent without prior approval we will consider you to be taking unauthorised absence unless you provide a satisfactory explanation of why it was not possible to obtain approval in advance .
3 However , as the receiver in exercising his power of sale is in a position analogous to that of the mortgagee , he is not obliged to postpone sale in order to obtain a better price or to adopt a piecemeal method of sale .
4 Demand for funds was more likely to exceed supply in manufacturing districts , and country banks in this situation drew on their correspondents in the City by sending in immature bills .
5 Thus , as was intended , the Act has had most impact on consumer transactions , and its effect , together with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , has been to make it hardly worthwhile to exclude liability in consumer transactions .
6 But overseas royal families are far more ready to put hand in pocket .
7 If he reasonably does not discover his right until a short time before the last days of the three months have elapsed , then obviously it would probably not be reasonably practicable to give notice in time .
8 Co-operative R&D ventures are also likely to affect competition in output markets .
9 Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications .
10 ‘ It 's almost impossible to play golf in ski boots , ’ he said .
11 Neither is Mr Kim yet ready to tackle corruption in business .
12 Too frail to give evidence in court , she described the attack in a statement .
13 The FR.4 was too late to see service in World War Two , and of the 160 built , 120 were delivered to the FAA and forty to the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service ( RNNAS ) .
14 Immediately after the election , however , the party in government will find it necessary and politically safe to raise unemployment in order to combat the inflation that was itself set in train by the politically engineered pre-election boom .
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