Example sentences of "in [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not sorted out , decided and convinced but curious and open in strange and often wondrous times . |
| 5 | A detailed statement of the claim is still required but in simpler and less formal terms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | State the cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions in that and earlier financial years which has been written off . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Children react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 13 | children can react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But what truth there is in the suggestion can be put in another and less misleading way . |
| 16 | Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As today , drinking establishments held an important social and cultural position in medieval and early modern England . |
| 19 | These industries ' debt ratio hit 25% in 1985 and again last year ( see chart 9 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The counselling process starts with the troubled emotional lives of individuals , whose feelings of worthlessness , inadequacy , fear or vulnerability have affected their lives in serious and possibly damaging ways , and whose relationships with other important people have become difficult , unbearable or have broken down . |
| 22 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 23 | Although rarely hitting the headlines , the Council continued to work to achieve integration in restricted and less controversial fields . |
| 24 | In pursuance of this , 8,000 letters were sent out in 1898 and nearly 3,000 replies were received within a short space of days . |
| 25 | The trick , of course , is to give young heroes quick wits and ingenuity as well as an impetuous and opportunist temperament , so that any opening for individual enterprise against the enemy can be plausibly taken : at the same time the status and responsibility of a midshipman , however young , which allows him to direct his seniors in dangerous and often illicit exploits will also ensure that he will have the backing of those older men and the support of their common sense , experience and physical strength . |
| 26 | For courses in which all units , or core units , are undergoing national development of unit specifications , it is intended that specified existing courses in these and closely related subjects will be converted to the new format for candidate enrolment in : |
| 27 | Instead it is single cash-crops which attract most research , developed outside the context of the production situation in which small farmers in steep-sloped and ecologically fragile areas find themselves . |
| 28 | In recent years , to avoid accidents trams have been fitted with more powerful klaxons and painted in brighter and more eye-catching liveries . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |