Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of Macleod 's fury was the process by which Lord Home had come to be chosen as Leader of the party and thereby Prime Minister in succession to Harold Macmillan . |
| 2 | This resulted in high profits and thereby increased investment in industry . |
| 3 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And one might one might say in six , erm perhaps not avoid but minimize the best and most versatile land in accordance with the provisions of P P G seven . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Put bluntly , the Lexus has the smoothest and most refined drivetrain in existence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A case might be made for this ( although there is no other evidence for it ) and so substantive interference in Ulpian 's text could be taken to be limited to generalization or to the addition of per omnia . |
| 12 | Regrettably it seems that with age , and perhaps successive generations in captivity , the red diminishes , but it is still a very striking fish . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It aims to provide 40,000 training weeks by next April under its innovative and highly successful Training in Employment scheme . |
| 15 | Let's hope advertisers get the message and give us more laughs and less po-faced hype in future . |
| 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 | Looking at the BBC 's sample of a dozen or so voters , one realised that people still have an abiding and entirely irrational belief in government as a form of magic fairy . |
| 20 | They share a common and deeply significant trend in philosophy , and that trend is to get away from hierarchy and control and to move towards emphasis upon what Peters calls ‘ The Front Line People ’ — and we know who they are ! |
| 21 | some solvent misusers may do bizarre and possibly dangerous things in response to their ‘ hallucinations ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is also due to a long term and possibly accelerating rise in demand . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I needed larger and more frequent doses in order to stay in Jekyll 's body . |
| 26 | The economists , for example , have insisted on more and more technical emphasis in order to ( as they see it ) equip ‘ their ’ graduates to compete better in the marketplace . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | These changes were accompanied by a greater and more sustained increase in energy intake in the steroid group . |
| 30 | 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 . |