Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ new ’ Cold War of 1979–85 had no war crises equivalent to Berlin in 1948 or Cuba in 1962 which pitted the Superpowers directly against one another . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 3 | By comparison with the scores from the sample , the child 's performance can then be judged as high , low or average , and , by inference , high , low or average in respect of the population at large . |
| 4 | You can extend it to cover any personal possessions that cost over £1,000 each or £3,500 in total . |
| 5 | These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form . |
| 6 | I assumed that since the author was not black , the appearance of Africanist characters or narrative or idiom in a work could never be about anything other than the ‘ normal ’ , unracialised , illusory white world that provided the fictional backdrop . |
| 7 | The fatuous sunbeams once more shows the sun can not represent any recognised god as the very expression describe the entity as mindless or imbecile in its creation of life only to watch helpless as that life is destroyed . |
| 8 | The prospective author must be British or resident in Britain and the book must have been published by a British publisher or a publisher with a British branch . |
| 9 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 10 | Whether we are talking about a man and woman offering their love to one another or mankind in general showing its love to the planet as a whole , that love will be repaid many times over . |
| 11 | Projects directed at cooling the anger of the male unemployed or blacks in inner city areas are likely to be more successful than schemes seeking to increase women 's access to employment or educational opportunities . |
| 12 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 13 | It is because of this that observations in shear flows may be used for experimental investigations of the Kolmogorov law , eqn ( 20.11 ) . |
| 14 | To recapitulate , it is clear that differences in national legislation may not only have the effect of preventing a good or service produced in one state being sold in another , but may also distort conditions of competition between manufacturers or suppliers located in different Member States of the Community . |
| 15 | While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds . |
| 16 | From a purely cultural perspective , it is clear that developments in France were by no means a faithful reflection of cultural developments in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
| 18 | It is becoming clear that taxation in the 1990s could be used as a major tool to promote a more efficient allocation of resources in society , forcing consumers to take account of the long-term implications of their actions . |
| 19 | It is already clear that mutations in p53 genes indicative of developing bladder cancer can be detected by analysis of shed cells present in patients ' urine samples . |
| 20 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |
| 21 | It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . , |
| 22 | Closer examination of these figures show that the proportion of party funds tends to be higher for Republicans than for Democrats , but it is clear that parties in general contribute only relatively small amounts to Congressional election funds . |
| 23 | It is clear that fires in the storages discussed would more readily be controlled by well-designed and appropriate automatic systems than by fire brigade action because : |
| 24 | None the less , it is clear that research in the polytechnics will continue to grow , if only for reasons of prestige , and the same trend is discernible in some of the colleges of higher education . |
| 25 | If policy-makers wish to kick this habit out of the classroom , it is clear that training in new skills is not in itself the answer . |
| 26 | My Lord by way of facts the first named plaintiff Mr is now er fifty eight years of age and he and his wife live in Brentwood er both are named as plaintiffs because their joint monies were expended in the purchase of the , this business and they were both parties to the purchase erm but it is clear that Mr in fact did all the negotiations for the purchase and the planning and the running of this business and he is er the prime witness on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 27 | ( It is clear that Burgess in the term ‘ farriery ’ meant to include the treatment of the diseases of farm animals as well as of the horse ) . |
| 28 | This authoritative ruling makes it clear that defects in appearance , if of sufficient degree , can render a vehicle unmerchantable . |
| 29 | The preface makes it clear that interest in the past in Saudi Arabia — as in all countries — is directly linked with present prosperity . |
| 30 | a physicist in Fusion at Culham , said he felt the outcome ‘ Was the best conceivable that staff in the Fusion business could have hoped for . ’ |