Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many children and teenagers ‘ earn ’ their rides by mucking out , grooming , cleaning tack or perhaps leading beginners in return for the occasional free ride . |
| 2 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 3 | — conducted by the Casework Committee or specially selected interviewers in borderline cases . |
| 4 | Repetitive waves — namely , two or more separate peaks in response to a single swallow are also generally believed to be abnormal . |
| 5 | After two or more good seasons in succession , predatory birds become markedly more plentiful . |
| 6 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 7 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 8 | The main role of the National Savings movement is to collect the savings of small or relatively unsophisticated savers in order to finance borrowing by the public sector . |
| 9 | Reanalysis of childhood mortality data first published in 1988 raises new concerns about the health and circumstances of one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society : lone mothers with dependent children who are largely reliant on social security benefits . |
| 10 | This is especially the case when the unoccupied group is identified as largely consisting of single parent families dependent on state benefits , one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society . |
| 11 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 12 | Both are essentially private activities decided upon by persons within the household or in small groups and involve the deepest and most fundamental concerns in life . |
| 13 | New French findings hint that the tetrapods probably hopped like kangaroos , as their tracks show left and right hind footprints in parallel , rather than alternating , some reaching up to two-metre intervals . |
| 14 | Regrettably it seems that with age , and perhaps successive generations in captivity , the red diminishes , but it is still a very striking fish . |
| 15 | However , in acute viral hepatitis , in spite of the presence of inflammatory changes in the liver , there is no accompanying systemic acute phase response , and only small changes in serum CRP concentrations occur . |
| 16 | SSAP 24 has introduced , and UITF 6 will introduce in future , major changes in the way in which the long-term and somewhat uncertain obligations in respect of post-retirement benefits are treated . |
| 17 | Decreasing productivity gains from mechanization , difficulties in obtaining more productive work organization and increased work intensity , the pressure of rising materials prices on costs , the pressure of international competition on prices , and especially fast increases in investment goods prices probably all played some part . |
| 18 | Confirmation of this view is provided by the enormous and extremely rapid gains in productivity which were achieved in the motor vehicle and iron and steel industries when they came under strong pressure through government rationalisation schemes in the 1970s [ Bhaskar , 1979 ] . |
| 19 | some solvent misusers may do bizarre and possibly dangerous things in response to their ‘ hallucinations ’ |
| 20 | There is a real need here both for a more flexible employment situation , which could absorb older people in less arduous or part-time work if they required it , and for more efforts to prepare people for retirement , helping them to develop time-consuming , absorbing and possibly profitable hobbies in advance of finishing work . |
| 21 | We 're aiming now for simpler patterns and more muted backgrounds in platform decoration ; we want to promote a sense of calmness and a quiet backdrop . |
| 22 | I needed larger and more frequent doses in order to stay in Jekyll 's body . |
| 23 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 24 | An already antiquated industrial economy was overtaken by newer and more competitive ones in export and domestic markets , particularly by German manufactures ( Barnett 1972 , Wiener 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The attitude that smoking is anti-social is gaining currency among the more articulate , better educated and more aware groups in society , but the vicious corollary is that the tobacco and advertising industries must get their recruits from the lower end of the socio-economic scale . |
| 26 | However , it is sadly the case that it is still true that there are er a number of landlords around who tend to control a lot of property , who er are charging er absurdly and unreasonably high rents in return for an appalling service . |
| 27 | Mitterrand on Sept. 15 announced diplomatic and also military measures in response to what he termed " this new aggression " . |
| 28 | Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible so as to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output . |
| 29 | Moreover , the particularly sharp curves of the Russian business cycle induced intense job insecurity , and correspondingly sharp fluctuations in wage levels . |
| 30 | Parents , could , and did , play the system , changing excuses and even changing schools in response to attempts by the school to improve attendance . |