Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that ‘ feeders do not tempt big barbel , but they are extremely cumbersome objects to have on the line when playing these powerful fish in weedy or otherwise snaggy areas . |
| 2 | The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry or nearly dry specimens . |
| 3 | This contrasts with projects done in junior or earlier secondary classes where it is more usual for a group of pupils or even a whole class to participate , often sharing the work between them , pooling the results and producing a joint account . |
| 4 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | True , there have been revolutions in the name of socialism and communism , but these have never been in highly industrialised but in agricultural and industrially backward countries like Russia , China and Cuba . |
| 7 | Not sorted out , decided and convinced but curious and open in strange and often wondrous times . |
| 8 | A detailed statement of the claim is still required but in simpler and less formal terms . |
| 9 | Taverner 's dense polyphony often flows in florid and rhythmically subtle lines in the tradition of the masters of the Eton Choirbook and his imitational practice is , if anything , nearer to Ockeghem 's than to Gombert 's or Clemens non Papa 's . |
| 10 | State the cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions in that and earlier financial years which has been written off . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 13 | At -30°C up to 90% of their body water became ice , which formed mainly in intercellular spaces , resulting in high but apparently non-lethal concentrations of solutes within the cells . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Children react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 19 | children can react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But what truth there is in the suggestion can be put in another and less misleading way . |
| 22 | Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity . |
| 23 | The increasing number of mortgage repossessions , the increasing interest costs to the UK manufacturing sector , the distortion of the foreign exchange market , the wage demands induced as workers seek to maintain their living standards and the large , gratuitous redistribution of income from debtors to creditors result in painful and often irreversible dislocations . |
| 24 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There may have been a body of people , in medieval or even later times , who , either quite consciously or otherwise , planted clumps or individual trees in the ‘ right ’ spots . |
| 27 | As today , drinking establishments held an important social and cultural position in medieval and early modern England . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The object , therefore , is to force your opponent to fight in unfamiliar or less preferred ways that he finds difficult . |
| 30 | These industries ' debt ratio hit 25% in 1985 and again last year ( see chart 9 ) . |