Example sentences of "in [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the proposals for community care received very little media attention throughout the bill 's passage through the Houses of Parliament because other parts of the bill , those which proposed a new organizational structure for the general hospital and community services , represented the most fundamental change to the NHS since its inception in 1948 and therefore deflected attention away from the community care proposals . |
| 2 | Crystals , of course , consist of sheets or planes of atoms , which to an electron-sized observer would seem to lie , piled upon one another , in awful and endlessly regular array , virtually for ever , like the pages of some enormous celestial book . |
| 3 | This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault . |
| 4 | Service personnel can be used in Antarctic work without contravening the Antarctic Treaty of Washington , but they must be involved in scientific and not military work . |
| 5 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 6 | Its contents may be verified by reference to the works quoted in the bibliography , especially those of Kinsey and his collaborators and by Masters and Johnson in the United States ( although stemming from studies in another and slightly different culture they hold much validity for Britain also ) and by Chatham , Eysenck , Felstein and Gorer in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | But what truth there is in the suggestion can be put in another and less misleading way . |
| 8 | Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity . |
| 9 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 10 | The stories of Tristan and Iseult and of King Arthur and his knights are inextricably linked together in muddled and often contradictory legend . |
| 11 | If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead . |
| 12 | By focusing attention , albeit in negative and often hostile fashion , on that issue , the radical Hegelians placed on the agenda what was to become an urgent matter in later generations . |
| 13 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 14 | Employing the familiar juxtaposition of ‘ the remarkably law-abiding character of twentieth century English life ’ and ‘ the law-abiding England of pre-1940 ’ as against what he repeatedly identified as ‘ new ’ — ‘ the new juvenile crime ’ , ‘ the new rebels ’ , ‘ the new generation of indifferent parents ’ , ‘ a new type of violence ’ , ‘ the new state of insecurity ’ — Fyvel thus considered that there was ‘ something in the way of life , in the break-up of traditional authority , in the values of the news in the headlines , which encouraged widespread youthful cynicism in general and rather violent delinquency in particular ’ and that this was ‘ a by-product of a new economic revolution which has put spending money on a scale not known before into the pockets of working-class boys and girls ’ . |
| 15 | Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery . |
| 16 | Both pieces of research stress how little time is spent with adults and how much time is spent either teaching or in fragmented and relatively trivial administration at the expense of creating effective personal relationships and articulating a sense of common purpose . |
| 17 | According to the resolution the conference would have , among others , the following aims : to examine the state of the environment and changes which had occurred since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and since other meetings and agreements such as the 1987 Montreal protocol on the ozone layer [ see pp. 35678 ; 36412 ] ; to " examine strategies for national and international action … to promote a supportive international economic environment that would result in sustained and environmentally sound development in all countries , with a view to combating poverty and improving the quality of life " ; and to promote the " further development of international environmental law " . |
| 18 | Originally Romanesque , like so many houses around this square , but later added to in Gothic and then early Renaissance style at the beginning of the 16C . |
| 19 | All the parties are in close and fairly intimate contact and there is no point in gratuitously annoying and antagonizing people — especially since the oracles may have made a mistake . |
| 20 | When Rostov had noticed them first , they had been deep in animated conversation — a conspiratorial group of people who were the least likely , considering all the circumstances , to be found in close and apparently friendly contact with one another . |
| 21 | The school was the last to close in 1968 and now primary school children have to make a four mile return journey to Middleton-on-the-Wolds . |
| 22 | The originality of a critical mind , expressing itself in creative and sometimes idiosyncratic science , has often manifested itself in theological deviation . |
| 23 | By now all was confusion : the streets of Verdun presented a scene of total disorder , not unlike a disturbed ant heap , for troops and transport ( all civilians had earlier been evacuated ) milled about in congested and seemingly pointless movement . |