Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin Silvertown , UK economist at Daiwa said : ‘ The 1% rate cut is highly welcome and broadly in line with expectations . |
| 2 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 3 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 4 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 5 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 6 | This is not to be dogmatic about answers , but to encourage pupils to reflect on them , developing increasing knowledge and understanding of how religion is expressed , and learning how to make evaluation which is both personal and yet in touch with public enquiry . |
| 7 | Induction thus provides a powerful means of co-ordinating the behaviour of adjacent groups of cells both early and late in development . |
| 8 | Landing in the Beastie Boys ' swimming pool , I was amazed to find I was both naked and still in employment . |
| 9 | He is very poor , badly deformed and desperately in need of help . |
| 10 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 11 | Arguably , many of the Majority recommendations were the more politically and financially feasible and more in tune with popular feeling at all levels . |
| 12 | Fear of rejection by one or both parents experienced in early life will make this person seem outwardly aloof and totally in control , fiercely independent , never showing weakness to the outside world and rejecting others before they are themselves rejected . |
| 13 | Moreover , this ravaging of that part of the publicly owned stock which is most desirable and most in demand is not being made up by new building . |
| 14 | The handwriting will be much too smooth and even in appearance , showing none of the alterations of thickness , pressure and overall individuality of an ordinary letter . |
| 15 | His voice came out very quietly , like a teacher who 's very angry and absolutely in control . |