Example sentences of "in [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 2 | On top of the 2,300 jobs tragically lost at British Aerospace today , the textile and motor trade federations are now predicting 40,000 more job losses this year , the Building Trades Federation predicts that 50,000 more jobs will be lost this year , the Engineering Employers Federation predicts that 70,000 more jobs will be lost , and the Confederation of British Industry has said that 200,000 jobs will be lost in total unless Ministers take action . |
| 3 | Only one prosecution was made in 1990 , and only nine have been made in total since the Inspectorate was set up in 1987 . |
| 4 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |
| 5 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 6 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 7 | From his earliest days as archbishop , his desire to hold a Council had been his most frequently expressed aim — expressed in vain while Rufus reigned , but almost at once realized under Henry . |
| 8 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , all struggles should have their recompense , and the effort laid out to achieve a satisfactory musical culmination would be in vain if the climax were to disappear before anyone really noticed it . |
| 10 | Claudia pressed the door-handle in vain as Roman laughed at her efforts . |
| 11 | This sharpness of rhyming is used at the end of the 2nd stanza to emphasise the fact that the sun toiled in vain as men just destroyed each other . |
| 12 | The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer — unfortunately , we do n't . |
| 13 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 14 | Veblen 's central thesis was that emulation took the form of engaging in a conspicuous way in honorific as opposed to merely useful pursuits . |
| 15 | Joseph Black had described carbon dioxide in 1756 while Henry Cavendish described hydrogen in 1766 . |
| 16 | Set back , uncared for amongst bracken at the edge of an arable field , was a short-armed Iona cross , a monument to ‘ Waverley Arthur Cameron of the Oban Times ’ drowned in 1891 whilst his sailing boat foundered off the coast — erected by his sorrowing father . |
| 17 | Like discs , they do a cleaner job in dry than in wet conditions . |
| 18 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 19 | Some were obviously more interested in break-dancing than poster writing , as I witnessed for myself . |
| 20 | The author was , for example , frustrated for some time by a field name written in 1736 as Abboxry Land , and could come to no sensible conclusion as to what was meant . |
| 21 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer and more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 22 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer , more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 23 | As the country with most influence over North Korea , China is already talking more toughly in private than in public . |
| 24 | This kind is more often exercised in private than in public places , the concept of ‘ legitimate authority ’ tends to be irrelevant to it , and it is less visible and less easily amenable to sociological analysis . |
| 25 | It is lower in private than in maintained schools ( i.e. there are fewer pupils per teacher ) , and it is lowest of all in special schools . |
| 26 | Later sessions with the parents can be held in private if necessary if there is significant information that can not be discussed in front of the child , but usually this applies only to specific marital problems or sexual difficulties . |
| 27 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , Cooper could be just as difficult in private as he was in public , and Richardson moved out in 1960 . |
| 29 | But under the impact of this pressure Parliament belatedly passed the long-delayed Criminal Law Amendment Act which attempted to suppress brothels , raised the age of consent for girls to sixteen , and introduced in Section 11 new penalties against male homosexual behaviour — significantly both in private as well as in public . |
| 30 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |