Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 2 | A third reason for the accelerating rate of advance in neuroscience is that there are simply larger numbers of better funded people engaged in research in this field today than ever before . |
| 3 | Once placed in their political context , it is difficult to imagine a set of guidelines of good practice in urban policy precisely because of the interaction of policy , theory and practice that this volume attempts to emphasise . |
| 4 | Under the old system , which included rent in supplementary benefit so that tenants could pay it themselves , many tenants were able to shuffle their weekly budgets — this week buy some kids ' shoes , next week the rent , this week the gas bill , next week the rent . |
| 5 | At that time , University College had no fellow in mathematics , which was another reason he wanted me to do chemistry : I could try for a scholarship in natural science rather than in mathematics . |
| 6 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 7 | HOPES of a surge in house-buying rose yesterday as estate agents reported their busiest month for three years . |
| 8 | When the above entry is printed out according to the SIL MANUSCRIPT ( MS ) programme it appears like this : Many people will find it preferable to type the words of their dictionary in alphabetical order so that the computer prints them out in alphabetical order without further programming . |
| 9 | Leapor makes general assertions about marriage in this poem partly because she can not make further particular observations without offending Octavia . |
| 10 | For example , whether or not subheadings ( possibly numbered ) should be used will be partly related to length ; they will certainly be of benefit in any text longer than 500 words . |
| 11 | The Social Democratic Party considers it to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations … it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state . |
| 12 | Elsewhere he uses sociology to understand the role of psychoanalysis in American society rather than building psychoanalysis into the theory of sociology . |
| 13 | differentiate its broad product range in some way so that it is not competing directly with lower-cost products , or |
| 14 | Whether heterozygosity is protective could have an important bearing on genetic counselling in this disease now that presymptomatic detection of this and other mutations in the prion protein gene is possible . |
| 15 | The phenomenon of fixed word-pairs , which has been a primary focus of attention in Hebrew poetry especially since the discovery of Ugaritic poetry , is only a subset of the broader category of word-pairing . |
| 16 | ‘ They are put forward at a time when industry uncertainty about the result of the current energy policy debate is starting to affect confidence in future investment offshore and halfway through a licensing round when industry application have already been made , ’ a statement said . |
| 17 | Another possible gain in efficiency is to hold the indexes of the inverted file in sequential order so that the binary search ( discussed in Section 5.2 ) can be applied . |
| 18 | We 're an open community in this house now and we 'd like you to be a member , would n't we , Alison . |
| 19 | Its record provides hard evidence to support his picture of a service in rude health rather than decline . |
| 20 | Printers which create the whole character in one strike rather than from individual dots are sometimes called ‘ character printers ’ . |
| 21 | But one can hear the naked cry of agony in Greek tragedy only because its conventions are elaborately designed to distance the events from our own affairs , to show only noble personages speaking eloquent and musical language . |
| 22 | Everybody 's taken part in this debate tonight and I for one am extremely pleased about that . |
| 23 | The reasons given by those who take part in commercial crime rather than straight business tend to stress the pleasure involved in ‘ trying to beat the system ’ , and the battle of wits with creditors , as well as the pleasure that the proceeds of crime bring . |
| 24 | It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time . |
| 25 | The court may order payment in one sum forthwith or on a fixed day ( s 71(1) ( a ) of the 1984 Act ) . |
| 26 | MARTIN O'NEILL scored the Nottingham Forest goal to spoil Ossie Ardiles ' debut in English football more than 14 years ago . |
| 27 | Models enable complex relationships to be set up on the computer in numerical form rather than in the form of subjective statements . |
| 28 | There is no reason at present why you can not take a course in one country even though you intend to take up a job elsewhere . |
| 29 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 30 | It amounted to a general statement of belief in socialist realism rather than a systematic attempt to offer a coherent theory relevant to the French context . |