Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 2 | He may perhaps speculate with me on whether the widely reported drop in standards of literacy among children of school-leaving age can in any way be connected with the massive dispersals and changes which have taken place in these educational libraries . |
| 3 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 4 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 5 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 6 | The civil power only has competence in matters regarding the effects of such marriages ’ ( Code of Canon Law 1917 : 1016 ) . |
| 7 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 8 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 9 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 10 | This may not always be the case — for example , in rapidly expanding populations , selection may favour reproductive rate at the expense of lifetime reproductive success ( see Lewontin , 1965 ; Elliot , 1975 ) — but exceptions are probably rare , especially in long-lived species where variation in longevity greatly exceeds variation in age at first breeding . |
| 11 | On Sept. 17 the politburo of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) appointed Hor Nam Hong , hitherto Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs , as Foreign Minister of the SOC in place of Premier Hun Sen [ see p. 37655 for August government and party appointments ] . |
| 12 | There are fewer rules than in the above classes and racing only takes place in winds above 11 knots . |
| 13 | By May the play was almost complete — all that was necessary was the process of readjustment which would necessarily take place in consultation with director and actors . |
| 14 | Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes . |
| 15 | ‘ Melanie merely lost interest in marriage to a busy consultant . |
| 16 | Newman especially had faith in Whitaker as the ideal weaver of Doctor Who stories . |
| 17 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 18 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 19 | When it is only a month or two old , the long dangling object in front of its face is obviously a puzzle to it . |
| 20 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 21 | Numbers only have meaning in comparison with other numbers . |
| 22 | Our chastity , indeed our whole life , only makes sense in relation to our love to God … |
| 23 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 24 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 25 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 26 | Believe me , I would sooner go hat in hand to all the bankers in Europe than try and explain to Anna why we 'd ignored her imperial command . ’ |
| 27 | Promotion of the state-owned sector has generally gone hand in hand with promotion of the indigenous , i.e. African , private sector , although in ‘ socialist ’ countries the scope of the latter has sometimes been consciously restricted . |
| 28 | Out in the kitchen preparations were already taking place in readiness for the lunch-time trade . |
| 29 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 30 | A general strike had already taken place in July in response to a government announcement that agreement had been reached with the IMF on conditions for a standby loan which sources in the capital , Santo Domingo , described as " one of the most drastic programmes ever contemplated by the IMF " . |