Example sentences of "[adv] [det] in the " in BNC.

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1 our purposes frustrating , that older people seem to feature so little in the consciousness of these diarists , preoccupied with the meaning and the daily bustle of their own lives .
2 It must make it all the harder that this reception has availed so little in the result … still this is n't the end of everything .
3 He had tried the water taps to make sure they were n't frozen , unaware that the water he ran off was only that in the pipes .
4 The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others .
5 The task becomes one of persuading people that earthquakes will not follow , and that this step is merely another in the gradual process of acceptance and tolerance of varied social and sexual behaviour begun by the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 ; that there is nothing harmful or threatening in institutionalizing , and thereby recognizing , a relationship which some fear , many object to , and most still misunderstand .
6 Of course , if there are thermals about , do all this in the lift , provided there are no other gliders sharing your thermal !
7 And done all this in the blackness of night ?
8 Mr Hicks points out : ‘ These guys have done all this in the worst years of a recession .
9 not so much in the earliest days , when US producers had not yet sufficiently geared themselves up to satisfy the demands of their market , so that British exports to the States were largely unproblematic .
10 Not so much in the matter of the Gheep , which is a laborious one-off grown from a composite embryo , but rather by actually shuffling genes .
11 It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said .
12 The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another .
13 If this sounds a strange gospel coming from a theologian , let me say immediately that there is so much in the Bible about the awfulness , the cruelty and the unfaithfulness of human kind that we may be sometimes justified in wondering why God continues to love us at all .
14 Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle .
15 It reminded me of all I disliked so much in the United States , of being called Ray before even shaking hands .
16 We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults .
17 The vital thing about strokes is not so much in the giving , however , as in the receiving .
18 Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years .
19 But there does seem to be a resurgence of it , particularly in Europe — I would n't say so much in the United States .
20 And we do have similarities — not so much in the way we work but in the way we seen things .
21 The balance , if any , is then distributed to the remaining and less fortunate , unsecured creditors on the basis of so much in the pound .
22 I dedicate this article to the memory of Eric Mosley who helped me so much in the early days of my research , to George Wyndham Parker for his encouragement , and to Jack Alcock , without whom this article would never have been possible , my only wish is that I could have met him in person .
23 STEVE BACHOP , the Western Samoan outside-half who impressed so much in the World Cup , is back for his second successive season with the Dublin club , Blackrock College .
24 It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum .
25 IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes .
26 Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’
27 Well the thing if we did it with our as they keep saying there 's some , there 's so much in the pipeline .
28 The problem we 've got with Greenpeace they might not have so much in the way of merchandise and they just have the stickers and
29 Monica Gellatly , community care coordinator for the FHSA , explained why general practitioners were feeling so much in the dark about the changes .
30 The importance of television in US politics , it should be stressed , lies not so much in the paid media of political advertising as in the free media of news broadcasts .
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