Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 2 | Where in all this was the clear and straightforward infallible message ? |
| 3 | Where in 1931 early Fabian economics , with its ‘ impregnable ’ theory of rent , had no answer either to the crisis or the problem , in the twenty-five years from 1945 the application by Governments of Keynesian principles led to an unprecedented creation of wealth and a remarkable rise in living standards . |
| 4 | A similar procedure took place when the claim was for more than £5,000 and the case was adjudicated in the High Court , where in 1987 another 67,054 warrants were issued called ‘ writs of fieri facias ’ shortened to ‘ fi fa ’ . |
| 5 | They were bought out by two businessmen , John Allen and Lee Higdon , who formed Alon Inc and continued production at Carlsbad before moving to McPherson , Kansas , where in 1965 86 of the A–2 Aircoupes were manufactured . |
| 6 | In the southern states , where in 1940 three-quarters of the blacks lived , the " Jim Crow " laws , dating from the late 19th century , condemned them to separate and inferior facilities on trains , in waiting-rooms and lavatories , in restaurants and drinking-fountains . |
| 7 | And cultural determinism is the idea that they way people think and act , is largely determined by their culture , their upbringing , their socialization , their home environment , peer group pressure , this kind of thing , and is not to be looked for in natural causes , in their genes , for example , or in individual psychological experience , as was the prime focus of Freud in psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | To me it is essential to serve fruit fools in glasses or in simple white cups , and with shortbread or other such biscuits to go with them . |
| 9 | It is certainly important to measure the plasma potassium concentration during acute administration of theophylline ( for example , after overdose or in acute severe asthma ) , since hypokalaemia may require treatment , but the plasma potassium concentration should not be regarded as a useful measure of the action of theophylline during long term therapy . |
| 10 | Pudding was always the bisulan , or in pure Italian ciambella : a round cake the texture of shortbread , with a hole in the middle and sugar on top . |
| 11 | Arranging to care for elderly people in their own home or in private residential accommodation can often be overshadowed by financial wrangles as to who pays what . |
| 12 | Applying Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input and output meshes gives Thus The results obtained for this particular network are illustrative of the fact that or in all passive networks . |
| 13 | The first was a harmony of the four Gospels , so arranged that the four books could be read either separately or in one continuous story ; each page was illustrated with engravings , and richly bound by the hands of the ladies of Gidding . |
| 14 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 15 | Serve well chilled in glasses , or in one large bowl , with a layer of thin pouring cream floated on the top , and with sponge or shortbread fingers . |
| 16 | For this reason , some computers have further instructions to deal with such operands , held either in a " double-length " accumulator ( the combined accumulator and MQ register , or a pair of adjacent accumulators ) or in two consecutive store locations . |
| 17 | Bulbs can be planted on pebbles , or in two staggered layers in a compost pot |
| 18 | Certain items of furniture have standard measurements — King size beds , Queen size , Double and so forth , as well as kitchen fitments that fit under or in standard sized units . |
| 19 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 20 | Equally , there was no reduction in the share of small firms in total shipments of manufactured goods or in total value-added as firms with less than 100 workers contributed fairly constant shares at around 35 per cent and 40 per cent respectively . |
| 21 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 22 | In general terms grass predominates on the heaviest soils or in low-lying wet areas , and arable where the soil is free draining and easily worked . |
| 23 | The main emphasis is on the study and use of modern languages as a preparation for professional life , either as a career linguist or in other language-related posts in business and the professions . |
| 24 | It revises , consolidates and extends the structures and vocabulary students will have come across in previous Streamline books or in other pre-intermediate courses . |
| 25 | For another accommodationist , General Aharon Yariv , Director of the Tel Aviv Centre for Strategic Studies , ‘ Palestinian refugees would not be repatriated to Israel … but would be dealt with during gradual implementation of self-determination , presumably within the Palestinian territory or in other Arab states . ’ |
| 26 | Conversely , as the ( mainly Italian ) school of ‘ criminal anthropology ’ purported to prove , the criminal , the anti-social , the socially underprivileged , belonged to a different and inferior human strain from the ‘ respectable ’ , and could be recognised as such by measuring the skull or in other simple ways . |
| 27 | Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type . |
| 28 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 29 | In many Endopterygote insects , more especially those whose eggs are deposited within plant tissue or in other concealed situations , the distal abdominal segments become attenuated and often telescoped to form a retractile tube or oviscapt which is used as an ovipositor . |
| 30 | This is so where the structure and organisation of social groups and collectivities is fairly precisely defined by some overall set of rules , as , for example , in the armed services , or in other bureaucratic organisations like local government departments , the Civil Service , ICI , or in similarly organised work groups ( for instance in the coal or motor industries ) . |