Example sentences of "[conj] in the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was also the heyday of the pleasure garden , where in the pleasantly pastoral atmosphere of Marylebone , Vauxhall and Ranelagh , the public were treated to promenades , food , firework displays and all manner of other entertainments , naturally including music — such as the works of the best Continental symphonists , songs , little theatrical performances , and organ concertos . |
| 2 | Guests stay in either the main building ( with lift ) , where bedrooms are traditionally furnished and have a balcony , or in the newly renovated , more modern , villa annexe ( nearer the road ) . |
| 3 | In other parts of Britain such ideas were more difficult to put across except to relatively small minorities or in the predominantly proletarian areas of central Scotland where miners , engineers and shipbuilders also constituted the majority of wage earners . |
| 4 | Workers lived in insanitary and overcrowded rented rooms and cellars where family life was impossible , or in the most spartan and soulless dormitory blocks thrown up by employers . |
| 5 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 6 | Accommodation is in the five-star Meridien or the four-star Tichka , both in the new town ( a five-minute cab ride or an interesting 40-minute walk to the old city centre ) or in the truly de luxe Mamounia within the city walls . |
| 7 | But this equitable separate estate existed only where it was created by a will or settlement , or in the comparatively rare cases where the Court of Chancery exercised its jurisdiction to compel a husband to make a settlement upon his wife . |
| 8 | The Law Society takes virtually no interest in these matters , or in the too frequent instances of gross negligence or dilatoriness by solicitors in dealing with their clients ' affairs . |
| 9 | In the wind , the fire , the earthquake , or in the still , small voice . ’ |
| 10 | Enterprise rooms are either in the gasthof itself , or in the very attractive ‘ Landhaus ’ directly opposite , which has a pleasant traditionally furnished reception-cum-lounge area . |
| 11 | Most pupils will also enjoy an active presentation of plays and poetry , treated sensitively , and we include the enjoyment from reciting favourite poems aloud , whether individually or in the very successful choral speaking groups established in many schools . |
| 12 | These are the people most likely to be , now or in the very near future , full-time pupils or students in educational institutions . |
| 13 | Have you , Mr. Speaker , had any intimation from Ministers that they intend to make a statement , today or in the very near future , that would at least enable the House to question Ministers about that meeting and to show that , even if Ministers have no solution to offer , the Opposition have ? |
| 14 | Head teachers say governors do n't show any interest — or in the very rare case show too much . |
| 15 | Causes lie as a rule in the field of this personal inadequacy or in the more obscure considerations of fetishism or developmental disorder . |
| 16 | In the laboratory he did undoubtedly think with his hands thoughts which he could not clearly express in words , or in the more accurate language of mathematics ( which he distrusted ) ; but he did try in his lectures to put across some of his underlying convictions . |
| 17 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 18 | Commercial pressures are hostile to the creation of space , except in the most limited and functional sense , either inside or out . |
| 19 | Except in the most arid and scholarly publications , your value to journalists can never be measured simply in terms of the quality of your music . |
| 20 | Those members of the public who have not had an opportunity to experience contact with the mentally handicapped except in the most superficial way inevitably draw their opinions from the concepts portrayed in the mass media and , above all , from what they see on television . |
| 21 | Except in the most fashionable watering holes , the nightlife is underwhelming . |
| 22 | Even so , it remains an inefficient way of spending funds , because in considering large numbers of new books on different subjects at the same time selectors find it difficult to judge the quality of individual works in relation to the rest of the subject literature , and difficult to take into account — except in the most superficial way — user demand for the books ' subjects . |
| 23 | Strategy never figured prominently except in the most generalized way . |
| 24 | If you 've signed a contract you have to fulfil it except in the most desperate circumstances . |
| 25 | Last August I walked the entire towpath from Greywell to New Haw , and can report it is in good condition throughout , is very well used except in the most rural parts , and is maintained regularly by the canal authority . |
| 26 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 27 | Since about 1750 , except in the most expensive and exclusive type of work , most head and tailbands have been purely decorative and functionally useless , used to give a respectable air of antiquity and good craftsmanship . |
| 28 | Currently , there are no powers to sentence young people under 15 to custody except in the most serious cases . |
| 29 | The other question posed above — Why do some people become ill and others not ? — is less easy to answer , except in the most general terms . |
| 30 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |