Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 2 | Mass civil disorder , whether it be the result of a real or imagined grievance or merely over-indulgence in alcohol , is not purely a recent phenomenon . |
| 3 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
| 4 | Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food . |
| 5 | It is an arresting paradox — although , admittedly , only a seeming one — that where child-rearing veers to the exact opposite extreme to that represented by the Schreber case and becomes a liberal democracy , or even anarchy in microcosm , the eventual consequence , if I am correct , may well be a totalitarian macrocosm . |
| 6 | I have witnessed many occasions when foreigners have unintentionally caused misunderstanding or even offence in speaking to an English person , but can remember very few occasions when this could be attributed to ‘ using the wrong intonation ’ except when a mistake caused a difference in apparent grammatical meaning ( something that is dealt with in the next chapter ) . |
| 7 | In non-fiction , the other people whose words and thoughts form part of the information may be historical or contemporary figures , or they may be groups , or even humanity in general . |
| 8 | Certainly , as he stared out eastwards , Ramsay could perceive no signs of alarm or even movement in town or beyond . |
| 9 | The Fish Leech , Pisciola geometra , can cause serious damage , or even death in large numbers . |
| 10 | Operational matters are for the Governor , but I think it is important to bear in mind that although we know that violence was used in the early stages we have no evidence that anyone now still in the prison is in danger and you 've got to ask yourself in those circumstances whether you should risk injury or even death in storming the prison when as far as we know nobody remaining inside is now in danger . |
| 11 | While recognising a variety of emphases and ideological leanings , Young suggests some common characteristics of these writers : a lack of interest in the causes of crime — or even opposition in the case of proposed social causes ; a voluntaristic , rather than deterministic , view of human action ; a belief in the effectiveness of deterrence . |
| 12 | Equally the message conveyed by silence was increasingly one of indifference or even hostility in a world dominated by protest and the call to apostolic action . |
| 13 | Here it is not a question of suggesting that Hegel is somehow answerable for the excesses of capitalism or even socialism in the past two hundred years : rather what is at stake is the argument that the dominant force of opposition to capitalism , Marxism , as a body of knowledge itself remains complicit with , and even extends , the system to which it is opposed . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , parliamentary influence over or even interest in foreign policy was still slight , and that of the general public even less . |
| 15 | No trading licence may be issued to any company which has directly or indirectly interest in an already-existing security trading company exceeding 10 per cent ( provided the direct participation is not less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 16 | For human readers , the knowledge sources required for the recognition of text ( or indeed language in any form ) include those gained from experience and those which are inherent . |
| 17 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 18 | It has been argued that the space time we inhabit is a Riemann space , and that locally space–time in free fall is the space time of special relativity . |
| 19 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 20 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 21 | The Cockcroft Report pointed out that traditionally mathematics in school has rarely been about anything . |
| 22 | Mr Lyons , leader of the MSF technical union , believes — albeit slightly tongue in cheek — that the more exotic menu is fully justified . |
| 23 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 24 | He had earlier explained that the PSL-S would be a national , centrist party based on Christian values , rather than exclusively peasant in orientation ; and that it would seek to combine the historical legacy of the peasant movement with the ethos of Solidarity . |
| 25 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 26 | Thus , improved health in poor societies can lead to larger population , greater poverty , and eventually deterioration in health . |
| 27 | This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology . |
| 28 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 29 | Could a non-violent transition to socialism take place via socialist victories in liberal democratic elections , and perhaps participation in government coalitions with ‘ bourgeois ’ parties ? |
| 30 | The clinical signs of anaemia and perhaps diarrhoea in calves or young sheep are not in themselves pathognomonic of bunostomiasis . |