Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In all these cases headteachers will need to consider what action is most appropriate in the circumstances .
2 This is most obvious in the parables coming from Matthew 's own source ( the parable of the wheat and tares ( Matt.
3 The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools .
4 I think that 's rather tasteless in the circumstances
5 Ms Ferguson 's family , traced back to the illegitimate son of an English planter and a slave girl , is constantly present in the texts , photographs and recipes .
6 The Havelok text ( Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108 ) is one of those sources that has been traditionally thought to be the work of an Anglo-Norman scribe ( Sisam , 1915 ) on the grounds that the spelling is highly variable in the respects specified by Skeat and indeed in some other respects also .
7 While Morgan is especially interested in the gens as a stage in the history of kinship which predates the appearance of the family , and which shows that matrilineal descent preceded patrilineal descent , Marx stresses rather its significance as proof of the existence of organizing principles ( especially as regards property ) which were opposite to those of capitalism .
8 The word political is somewhat unsuitable in the circumstances , since my own political stance has always been a pragmatic one .
9 Your medical centre is only open in the mornings , is n't it ? ’
10 Richard Hannon 's unbeaten two-year-old , off the course since July with an injured stifle , is only third in the bookmakers ' list for the Group One contest .
11 Perhaps it is this which is so charming in the actions and behaviour of the infants of all species : the freshness and the tentativeness with which the life within explores its new mental and physical apparatus .
12 ‘ Aggression is so important in the sports animal . ’
13 In particular chlorine the most dominant element in sea water it 's quite common in river water but is extremely rare in the rocks that form the earth 's crust .
14 ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . )
15 I shall return to the ( pull ) set as an example of phono-lexical alternation , largely because such alternation appears to be typical of dialect-divergent communities , and is extremely important in the arguments that I shall develop in later chapters on phonological change and on the effects of strong and weak social ties in communities .
16 Such a " compartmentalisation " is less easy in the cases of Yorkshire and Lancashire .
17 The most important findings were : ( 1 ) hepatic bile , as well as gall bladder bile , is less metastable in the patients with cholesterol gall stones than the gall stone free patients ; and ( 2 ) the metastability of bile is reduced further in the gall bladder only in the patients with cholesterol gall stones .
18 President Clinton is less popular in the polls at this point in his term than any president since such records were kept .
19 a party and he said no , no , he said it 's because it 's so hot in the houses , they 've come out to eat because it is so hot
20 Life is much better in the suburbs , anyway .
21 For example , the banqueting season is much shorter in the provinces than in London .
22 If that is not appropriate in the circumstances , the power of entry without warrant in PACE may be used either ‘ to pursue ‘ hotly ’ or with circumspection until [ it is judged ] expedient to enter and arrest . ’
23 That rule prohibits solicitors practising in partnership or " in association " ( where two or more firms have at least one common principal ) from representing : ( 1 ) both seller and buyer in a transfer of land for value at arm 's length ; or ( 2 ) both lessor and lessee on the grant of a lease for value at arm 's length ; or ( 3 ) both lender and borrower in a private mortgage at arm 's length with exceptions made only in the case of : ( 1 ) small transactions ; ( 2 ) where the parties are connected with each other ( commercially or personally ) ; ( 3 ) where there is no other solicitor or licensed conveyancer in the vicinity whom either party might reasonably instruct ; ( 4 ) where two associated firms or two offices of the same firm acting for the parties are in different locations , neither firm having received instructions to act on referral from the other and the matter is dealt with or supervised by a different solicitor at each firm or office and , where the solicitor is not involved in the negotiations , where no conflict of interest arises and where neither vendor nor lessor is a builder or developer .
24 Such records are usually a ‘ collection ’ and feature a particular theme ( e.g. country & western or easy listening ) and the advertisement states that the collection is not available in the shops .
25 ‘ The Mamur Zapt is not interested in the likes of us . ’
26 The urban middle-class heart goes out to jaguars , exotic Indians and magnificent trees with a generosity that is not evident in the cases of kangaroos and red coral .
27 Where disabled persons are treated less favourably than others because they can not comply with a requirement with which a substantially higher proportion of non-disabled persons can comply , and the requirement is not justifiable in the circumstances , indirect discrimination will arise .
28 Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate .
29 where quantification is already evident in the accounts themselves ( an example of which might be a presentation rather than a measurement matter , such as an adaptation of the headings in the Act 's format requirements not covered by paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 4 ) , or (
30 Yet this scandalous polysemity is already potential in the words of one of Paul 's New Testament Epistles , where in I Corinthians 7 : 3 he creates the concept of the conjugal debt , writing , " let [ the husband ] pay the debt " ( New English Bible : " " The husband must give the wife what is due to her , and the wife equally must give the husband his due " " ) .
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