Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 2 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 3 | Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory . |
| 4 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |
| 5 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 6 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 7 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 8 | That kind of action is defensible or not in terms of the students ' civil rights , and in terms of the constraints such activities present to the civil rights of the general public . |
| 9 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 10 | The dorsal arm plates , nearly square in small specimens , become broader than long in larger ones ; the arms become increasingly ridged with size . |
| 11 | As a result , economists are much more interested than before in correcting inefficiencies by reducing the costs of doing business ; pursuing efficiency through cleverer and more ambitious regulation is definitely out of fashion . |
| 12 | He became more interested than ever in this beautiful young man , Dorian Gray . |
| 13 | THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 14 | ( BBC 1 , 7.30pm ) THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 15 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 16 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 17 | To try to make money by switching currencies according to exchange rates is considered risky and not in general the purpose of these accounts . |
| 18 | In a survey reported in this week 's journal MORI interviewed 4000 people aged 30 and over in their own homes on behalf of the British Association for Continence Care ( p 832 ) . |
| 19 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 20 | Beyond this and seemingly in open countryside , is the American Pavilion housed in what was formerly a 16C wine press belonging to the Schönborn Palace . |
| 21 | However , his flamboyant style led to his departure , first in 1867 and again in 1873 , over arguments about his salary and alcohol being sold in the clubs . |
| 22 | If Lyrical Ballads was as unpopular as legend would have it , why would Wordsworth have added a second volume in 1800 , and why would both volumes be reprinted in 1802 and again in 1805 ? |
| 23 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 24 | , Thomas ( fl. 1292–1342 ) , was a working mason at the first building of St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace in 1292–3 and again in 1294 , His name indicates his birth in Witney , Oxfordshire , a manor of the bishop of Winchester , and this was significant for his career . |
| 25 | With Ruggles and Parkinson hitting high and hard in the third , Partners held a 14–11 advantage but again failed to capitalise , although a couple of refereeing decisions left them puzzled . |
| 26 | It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal . |
| 27 | These shared or duplicated responsibilities are unavoidable and often in fact are desirable because the process is one of mutual monitoring which usually improves reliability . |
| 28 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 29 | But there is some evidence of his association with liberals at Cambridge which must be mentioned briefly at this point , since it seems rather unlikely that he would have visited France in 1790 and again in 1791–2 if he had no sympathy with what was going on there . |
| 30 | The second precaution is to pull each of the bridle rings up and away from the sail before positioning the cross-spar first into the centre ferrule with the spar beneath all the bridle lines It is most important that the lines which we will call ‘ B ’ and ‘ C ’ as in the drawings , are free and not in any way tangled with either the leading , edge vinyl , spine fitting or the cross-spar Otherwise the bridle setting and consequent flight performance will be sadly deformed ! |