Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 At a more intimate and personal level , the balance between independence and dependence raises fascinating issues which have as yet been little explored in relation to old age .
2 Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views .
3 As a result they have contributed to the public consultation process which accompanies the development of such plans , and have always sought to ensure that local planning policies are properly implemented in relation to the assessment of individual applications .
4 There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine .
5 Such homoeomorphs are presumably produced in response to very similar life habits .
6 Possibly the most potent reason lies in present day , paradoxical attitudes to child rearing and to children , which are most marked in relation to infants .
7 Individuals ' evaluations of how good they are at something are generally made in relation to how good others are at the same thing .
8 In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live .
9 At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb .
10 The effects of personal income taxation are usually viewed in relation to the aggregate supply of hours of market work and the associated welfare costs .
11 The dividends are usually paid in priority to dividends on all other shares except for preference shares .
12 Mental health is not unlike happiness or sorrow , which are both experienced in relation to other things .
13 CL100 mRNA levels are also increased in response to heat shock .
14 They are also written in response to technological breakthroughs ; to counter Soviet changes in weapons and tactics ; and to compete with new systems emerging from other countries ' armament industries .
15 Ecological safety and strategies of environmental protection are also discussed in relation to Latvia and Lithuania .
16 Similar provisions are also found in relation to other supply situations ( see s10(3) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss4(4) , 9(4) of SGSA 1982 ) .
17 ( c ) The detector costs are substantially reduced in comparison to an incremental optical encoder , as the waveform analyser is composed of simple electronic circuitry .
18 While these issues of definition , incidence and prevalence are sharply demonstrated in relation to recent research and debate about sexual abuse , they pervade the whole area of child abuse .
19 There , as Marx had noted , slaves are often classed with women and children and are often obtained in order to be adopted by people without descendants .
20 This Directive had already been substantially revised in response to the comments of the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee , and had begun its fruitless journey six years before .
21 Brown 's chapter on geodemographics discusses an application field where primary data collected for operational purposes are typically evaluated in relation to secondary data derived from sources such as the Census of Population .
22 In this way , the various elements in the wing 's positional field , for example , are correctly placed in relation to one another .
23 ( b ) Quality words have meanings which may be effectively presented in contrast to their opposites by means of objects which best bring out their opposing qualities .
24 The problems of such an approach can be easily identified in relation to Stubbs ' description above of the varied functions of literacy .
25 The difficulties involved in trying to explicate the concept are so insidious and irksome that , understandably perhaps , one is often tempted to say that they are not crucially important and that the problems that can be profitably discussed in relation to experiences are no different from those that arise in connection with any other " natural phenomena " ; and , consequently , that the method of investigation with regard to all phenomena , experiences included , is , or at any rate , ought to be , the same .
26 They vary greatly in length , scope , selectivity and reliability , and must be carefully evaluated in relation to the stock revision in progress .
27 These are firstly , the formulation of clear objectives and , secondly , planning , as resources must be clearly related in advance to objectives .
28 The distinction can be interestingly explored in relation to the very large amount of art — painting , sculpture , architecture , music and ( in a different sense ) literature produced within the variable social relations of the Christian church .
29 Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme .
30 Local authorities would be well advised in future to preface all their decisions with the words : ‘ Having had regard to all relevant matters and having disregarded all irrelevant matters , and having considered the interests of all those likely to be affected , resolved that' etc .
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