Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , returning from Chartres to Paris in 1141 , sought him out in order to facilitate his own preparation for teaching ; he was thenceforward in close touch with Adam until his own departure from Paris in 1146 . |
| 2 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 3 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 4 | Suffice it to say that there is good reason to believe that the original censuses in Numbers 1 and 26 set out the numbers of each tribe , somewhat in this form : |
| 5 | Ken is now launching the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra , the first rehearsal of which will take place next Saturday at 2pm in Methodist College . |
| 6 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , seedlings survive better in stony soil . |
| 8 | That will help them cope better in mixed business situations . |
| 9 | There is often no optimal design , treatment or solution ; better in one way means worse in another . |
| 10 | It is a decision that has , in principle , to be taken early on , so that the creative group can concentrate their efforts on the right type of ads — though because some creative ideas work better in one medium than another , the initial decision may be left more or less open . |
| 11 | PC WEATHERFAX — the best FAX system now even better in NEW Version 5 |
| 12 | Some birds may do better in that situation and some worse . |
| 13 | ‘ The politest thing one can say ’ , he said , ‘ is that that is the wisdom of hindsight by people who are not trained to know better in that area ’ . |
| 14 | I will refrain from the obvious comment , and merely state that Air Force food was usually good , if a bit basic , and we came off better in that department than civilians . |
| 15 | Miles better in 1990 Weekend attractions .. |
| 16 | Although you may decide to begin with a fade in , the circumstances may leave you with insufficient time for these niceties , and a crash-in cut to the first shot probably sets the mood for the sequence better in any case . |
| 17 | There 's always something that could have gone better in any lesson — and there will always be at least two views as to how it should have been conducted anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't a case of upstaging one another , but it was let's see who can really act better in this scene , ’ commented Dustin . |
| 19 | A similar approach affects the Mozart ‘ Serenata Notturna ’ ( also from 1956 ) , but somehow Klemperer 's gruffness works better in this work . |
| 20 | Most part-timers are women , which explains why women have fared better in this recession than men . |
| 21 | Scholes makes useful and practical suggestions for helping students to read better in this situation . |
| 22 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 23 | Omar believed we would do better in this lowland country if we used camels rather than mules . |
| 24 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 25 | If the step is a wise one , it will tend to attract others to do even better in this regard . |
| 26 | D. From long experience the Wills family know that cereal crops ( wheat and barley ) normally grow better in this region than in other parts of Britain . |
| 27 | Gouache techniques produce very satisfying results , with the less liquid acrylics scoring better in this department . |
| 28 | Lakatos 's account fares slightly better in this respect insofar as it does offer means by which some decisions of the scientific community might be criticized . |
| 29 | It works better in another piece , beginning : ‘ If every event which occurred could be given a name , there would be no need for stories . ’ |
| 30 | Personally , I think she 'd do better in another career . ’ |