Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the social relations of artists involved partly or wholly in commodity production are in fact highly variable .
2 Diférance is the force behind , or rather in language ; it produces the effects of difference which make up language .
3 If you have the country parks and already there is no hunting on those parts open to the public there 's just about another hundred acres , that 's the Victoria Park or thereabouts in total .
4 I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage .
5 Fees are normally paid monthly or quarterly in advance , while expenses are charged out each month after invoices from suppliers come in to you .
6 The pitch shifter is particularly impressive , offering a full octave above or below in semitone steps .
7 ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan .
8 Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose .
9 Applicants should possess : GCE or GCSE passes at grade C or better in Mathematics and three other subjects , at least one of which must be at ‘ A ’ level ( or an equivalent AS level qualification ) ;
10 Applicants should possess : GCE or GCSE passes at grade C or better in Mathematics and three other subjects , at least one of which must be at ‘ A ’ level ( or an equivalent AS level qualification ) ;
11 Behind , or perhaps in front of , all the ideals and theories there was a sound technical base which , under Bernard 's tutelage , was also entering a phase of significant growth .
12 The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing .
13 It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff .
14 A cat and the occasional use of warfarin keep the rats and mice more or less in check .
15 Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case .
16 Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather .
17 According to Booth 8.4 per cent of the people of London lived in the worst condition of being ‘ at all times more or less in want ’ , ‘ ill-nourished and poorly clad ’ .
18 There was no central heating , only a collection of electric and oil and gas heaters , imported by tenants or discovered more or less in working order in the Handwork Room where all such things were stowed .
19 The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 .
20 Well it 's more or less in hand , yeah .
21 A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 .
22 Usually 30cm ( 12 inches ) or less in garden ponds .
23 Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises .
24 In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline .
25 You may be maintaining your profits more or less in line with inflation , and hence giving a spurious impression of growth .
26 M46 and M47 are close together , more or less in line with Beta Canis Majoris and Sirius ; they are not spectacular , but are easy to locate .
27 This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ?
28 Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production .
29 Assume first that I 2 is one track or less in extent .
30 The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place .
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