Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a severe , worn pressure of thought about his temples , a fire in his eye ( as if he saw something in objects more than outward appearance ) , an intense , high , narrow forehead , a Roman nose , cheeks furrowed by a strong purpose , and a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth , a good deal at variance with the solemn , stately expression of |
| 2 | A labyrinth of caves known as the ‘ Sassi ’ or ‘ rocks ’ , is hewn in tiers out of the flanks of a deep ravine and linked by a warren of stairways and alleys . |
| 3 | Whole chapters can be SKIMMED in minutes rather than hours . |
| 4 | Note that workouts are given in minutes not miles . |
| 5 | Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks . |
| 6 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 7 | Yes they 'd like if they were in South Wales , in South Wales you know if your grandfather was a scab , you 'd be a scab would n't you , they carry it out in generations there . |
| 8 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 9 | These are particularly useful to describe situations where events occur in parallel or in patterns rather than in a single series . |
| 10 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 11 | This hidden wonderland , sculptured in darkness absolute , remained unseen and unsuspected through the ages until the present century when men first ventured into rifts in the ground and beheld in the light of torches an amazing display of sculptured limestone in patterns both incredibly delicate and massive , a living museum of art in many forms . |
| 12 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 13 | The principle of cloze testing is based on the gestalt theory of " closure " ( closing gaps in patterns subconsciously ) and thus the cloze tests measure the reader 's ability to decode " interrupted " or " mutilated " messages by making the most acceptable substitutions from all the contextual clues available . |
| 14 | The meaning of the decision in Lonrho has produced radical differences of opinion in courts here and abroad . |
| 15 | It will be clear from the description of the functions of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords that they make law to meet the needs of cases arising before them and lay down guidelines for judges in courts below . |
| 16 | Nearly all of that was in classifieds where erm , the volume was down about er , eleven point eight , nearly twelve percent and er , revenue down by eight point three percent . |
| 17 | Either it must achieve the reductions it agreed to by using technological means to remove the sulphur from domestic coal , or , if it chooses to see low-sulphur coal being imported , or gas burned in power stations , it must endure reductions in emissions closer to those agreed by West Germany , the Netherlands , France , Belgium and Denmark . ’ |
| 18 | The bulk of NO2 emissions in the capital come from motor vehicles , however , and some observers argue that the introduction of catalytic converters will shortly lead to large reductions in emissions overall . |
| 19 | More like an amphitheatre , with rows of seats in semicircles high up at the back . |
| 20 | This involved the multiplication of side altars ( in some seminaries and religious houses literally dozens of small altars were still being constructed in crypts even in the 1950s ) for the celebration of ‘ private ’ Masses . |
| 21 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 22 | As noted in Chapter 2 , the annual reports and guidelines of the project make clear the intention that library provision be enhanced in programmes directly related to the curriculum development plans of the school concerned . |
| 23 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 24 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 25 | But this was fundamentally a different issue to whether mentally handicapped people should themselves be in institutions essentially built to treat and care for people in need of constant medical aid . |
| 26 | As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women . |
| 27 | Time consuming and costly negotiations on pay settlements can be over and done with in hours instead of weeks , as each proposal is fed into the model and the implications displayed immediately for further discussion . |
| 28 | so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five . |
| 29 | The target is best expressed in hours rather than in money terms . |
| 30 | Analysis of birth weight in kilograms rather than by centiles did not affect these correlations , the absolute value for the whole cohort correlating with the standardised β cell function ( r s =0.28 ( p=0.007 ) . |