Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a steady , auto-nomous source of money ( the social therapy business ) , and its followers are far better integrated into the mainstream of American life , with no Moonie-like flower sales , no Charlie Manson eyes , no anti-Semitism loosely cloaked in ravings about the Queen of England in the style of LaRouche . |
| 2 | The staff believe that the course is unpopular because physical science is rarely taught in schools ; there is no longer , for example , a physical science A level . |
| 3 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 4 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 5 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 6 | He uses words like ‘ daft ’ ; phrases and dialogue that are rarely heard in songs but immediately provide flavour . |
| 7 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 8 | Differences in strike commitment are liable to be more effectively explained in terms of such variables as the culture of each coalfield , traditional loyalties to the area or national levels of the union and the type of lead given by branch and area officials at the outset of the dispute . |
| 9 | The river Severn — claims Greenpeace — is already badly polluted in places , caused mainly by the cocktail of chemicals and heavy metals discharged into its estuary by factories at Avonmouth . |
| 10 | There will however still be many mentally handicapped people who will be unable to find employment because of the severity of their handicap , and there is a clear danger that these young people will remain at home or be eventually placed in hospitals and homes with only superficial stimulation . |
| 11 | The character of the field man 's work was fundamentally altered in ways unknown to younger staff . |
| 12 | Although such findings are not in dispute , and of course are rarely undertaken in areas where public antagonism to the institution is known to run high , there is continual pressure to replicate them and repeat the consoling message . |
| 13 | Randalstown also report little change in personnel , having lost the pregnant Carol Burns , but added Ballymoney 's flying winger Sonia Innis . |
| 14 | Looking at all selective schools together — grammar , direct grant and private — little change in inequalities has taken place over the years spanned by Halsey 's study . |
| 15 | Akram went on to perform in plays in English and Bengali . |
| 16 | Victoria continued to wear handed-down Liberty dresses from Aunt Rose 's daughters , and wasting money by the excessive use of electric light , hot water or heating appliances was a vice which Pamela rigorously discouraged in children and servants . |
| 17 | Surveyors for Richmond Town Council say the wall is badly cracked in places and leaning by as much as 500mm . |
| 18 | Paired pectoral fins of gnathostome-type were only developed in cephalaspids ( and perhaps pituriaspids ) where there is evidence of an endoskeleton and associated muscles . |
| 19 | The widespread influence of Ribble , Bowlby and Spitz , although it was supported by new , more permissive baby books such as Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care ( 1946 ) , can not be entirely explained in terms of parents ' reaction against the rigours of aseptic mothercraft . |
| 20 | The right hemisphere is largely non-verbal , though right-sided speech centres are better developed in women than in men . |
| 21 | The appointment of a practice manager was regarded as important by a third of firms with over fifty staff and the findings show that management systems tend to be much better developed in firms where decision making is in the hands of a single practice manager rather than , for example , in committee meetings of the whole partnership . |
| 22 | Such language usage is , however , clearly described only from animals especially taught in laboratories . |
| 23 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |
| 24 | The camaraderie so emphasized in discussions of police occupational culture is fractured in the RUC 's case by some important divisions , and the regular/reserve police distinction is an example . |
| 25 | Darwin realized that many secondary sexual differences were a consequence of the greater intensity of competition between males for access to mates and that many traits were more highly developed in males either because they conferred an advantage in fights or because they rendered their possessor more attractive to females . |
| 26 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 27 | In Cambridge , J. M. Winter of Pembroke College , argued that infant mortality data were better explained in terms of long run socioeconomic changes than short-term fluctuations . |
| 28 | There is , however , powerful ethnographic evidence to challenge this explanation and to suggest that the ‘ institutionalised greater respect ’ for written language in England can be better explained in terms of political and ideological practices in the real history of that country . |
| 29 | But they are also extremely limited in terms of our particular interests . |
| 30 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |