Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [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 is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 10 | It was Napoleon — the First , not the Third — who established this tremendous promenade from which , in clear or even clearish weather , you get what is prized , and rightly so , as the finest of all long-range views of the Pyrenees . |
| 11 | These industries ' debt ratio hit 25% in 1985 and again last year ( see chart 9 ) . |
| 12 | In his seven years as a playing member of the team , Bates has twice helped Britain gain promotion to the World Group , in 1985 and again last year , and has once , in 1987 , had the disappointment of being relegated . |
| 13 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 14 | The two key findings of our study , therefore , were firstly that H pylori infection was more commong than expected in our population in 1969 and secondly that acqusition of infection over the subsequent 21 years was a rare occurrence . |
| 15 | In the wake of the Mann group 's victory , and the strident noises from the Student Federation , some reports from Amritsar had spoken of a return of terrorism to the temple itself , scene of bloody battles in 1984 and again last summer . |
| 16 | In the wake of the Mann group 's victory , and the strident noises from the Student Federation , some reports from Amritsar had spoken of a return of terrorism to the temple itself , scene of bloody battles in 1984 and again last summer . |
| 17 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 18 | The stories of Tristan and Iseult and of King Arthur and his knights are inextricably linked together in muddled and often contradictory legend . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A breath on the flames , and there would be fire from end to end of the march ; and the Prince was in urgent but still friendly correspondence with King Henry in the effort to settle the dissensions peacefully and without affront to either Welsh or English honour . |
| 21 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 22 | In doing all of this , we were in good or maybe bad company depending upon how you view it , for example Halla Burton had special charges last year of a hundred and eighty seven million dollars which compared with a hundred and eighty two million dollars of special charges the previous year and Baker Hughes similarly had charges of eighty million dollars and sixty million dollars . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 25 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On this computer there is no fixed-point arithmetic , and all arithmetic is done in short or long floating-point format . |
| 28 | But a defiant Woosnam , who won the individual crown in 1987 and again last year , added : ‘ I wanted that third title very badly , and I 'll keep coming back until I beat Nicklaus 's record . ’ |
| 29 | But I would be extremely chary of asking the newer ‘ red ’ and ‘ yellow ’ forms to live in alkaline or even neutral water . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |