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

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1 The question was often a difficult and delicate one given radically different perceptions of what was necessary or right in the changed circumstances , the different styles of polytechnic directors and their senior staffs , different approaches to organizational development .
2 More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety .
3 And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client .
4 Indeed the earliest suburban development preceded railway expansion by a decade or so in the big cities .
5 Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions .
6 He must never be left in such a position that he can carry on the habit , he must be made to forget it ; this sometimes takes three months , or longer in the worst cases
7 No other person has reported an interest of 3% or more in the ordinary shares .
8 As Sampras , who had suddenly found the steel and resilience that he could have done with in his match with Leconte 48 hours earlier , or even in the early stages of the third set against Forget , produced the lob to the baseline which made it 15–40 from the home team 's point of view , Noah sunk back into his seat in disbelief .
9 There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society .
10 Some of their happiest hours together were spent driving , or looking at cars , or simply in the huge garages at St-Cloud , where Grégoire would contentedly remove wheels , and then replace them , and Edouard would contentedly watch him .
11 She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years .
12 This Gotteschalk , a precursor of Luther , even to renouncing his Vows , might be thought in his intransigent predestinarian vision to figure some of the later Evangelicals of our day , and Neighbour Pliable perhaps a satire upon those like myself , who believe that Christianity does not consist in the idolatrous presence of the Deity in a piece of bread , nor yet in the five points of metaphysic faith .
13 The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up .
14 We knew that 6pm in Vancouver was 7pm on the prairies , 8pm in Winnipeg , 9pm in Toronto & Montreal and 10pm in the Maritime provinces .
15 She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’
16 And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’
17 Indeed , particularly in the humanities , and perhaps in the social sciences and in professionally related fields , it will be a substantial work of research when considered against any criterion .
18 The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land .
19 However , the problem for competition policy is that trade-offs are more or less ubiquitous , and only in a few cases ( price fixing or market sharing are examples ) is it possible to reach an unambiguous verdict .
20 Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance .
21 Even by World War II most of us at school were learning about atoms inductively , and only in the higher classes .
22 The Court of Appeal may not overrule a House of Lords decision : and only in the exceptional circumstances set out in the Practice Statement of July 1 , 1966 ( Practice Statement ( judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 ) , will this House refuse to follow its own previous decisions .
23 In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more .
24 The motion-picture industry survived and prospered because this battle was substantially won in the vast majority of communities and especially in the major cities .
25 We will encourage recruitment campaigns and training for promotion to increase the number of women and ethnic minority officers in the police force and especially in the higher ranks .
26 It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties .
27 But development takes place in other spheres than that of intelligence alone : in emotional response , for instance and especially in the basic factors of relationship with others .
28 Further inland , and especially in the Pannonian lowlands and along the Vardar-Morava corridor , the military character of the Roman settlements became more pronounced .
29 As expected , he found a higher correlation between the economic indicators and vocational schooling than general secondary schooling — but only in the developing and not in the affluent countries .
30 All would agree with Mr Lester who says , ‘ The concept of three fairs is infinitely confusing and not in the best interests of Chicago ’ .
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