Example sentences of "and in [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 We lack general agreement on the formulation of objectives , and in many subject areas there is great dispute as to how far , if at all , we can test whether some quite crucial objectives have been achieved .
2 Elections of a kind are held in the Soviet Union , and in many other countries which are , officially or unofficially , one-party states .
3 Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life .
4 At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves .
5 When Rodrigo heard this it pleased him well , and he said to the King that he would do his bidding in this , and in all other things which he might command ; and the King thanked him much .
6 ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge .
7 Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston .
8 But the tasks of reserve police vary across sections and stations , and in some rural areas there is no difference in their responsibilities compared to regular policemen , knowledge of which makes part-time reserve police in Easton very sensitive to their lowly position within the police bureaucracy .
9 Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides .
10 In England for example , unemployment in the North is twice that in the South-East , and in most European countries there are lesser employment opportunities in rural areas as opposed to urban areas resulting in depopulation of the countryside and an increase in the size of cities .
11 It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades .
12 He was a compelling man , overwhelmingly masculine , and in any other circumstances she would have been attracted — no , more than just attracted to him .
13 And in those early days he was careful with money .
14 And in those fat books you 're always reading , with busty ladies on the cover .
15 And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband .
16 I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone .
17 For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage .
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