Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Where in secret You dwell alone
2 One such change arose because , although in general it was the better houses that were sold , some tenants bought houses , without survey , that were in poor structural condition ( especially prefabricated buildings ) and were soon experiencing difficulties paying for repairs and maintenance .
3 He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you .
4 The only fact upon which dieticians seem agreed is that in general we eat too much meat and too few vegetables , which distorts the balance of fat in our bodies .
5 Erm , it 's true that in general we do have different memories than other people do er but it does n't seem to be fully individuating in that any change in the contents of the memory would produce a change in .
6 They could also argue that in general there is frequently a difference between morality and legalism and that the former has a greater claim on their allegiance .
7 Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson .
8 The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age .
9 The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow .
10 The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks .
11 The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ .
12 Immediately some commentators claimed that she and Prince Charles had succeeded in mending their marriage , while others sniffed cynically that in private nothing had changed .
13 The argument that in English one can theoretically address others without revealing status , on which some of Lyons ' claims for the ‘ objectivity ’ of the language rest , is not in fact readily subscribed to by linguists .
14 The McCormick organisation has not been slow to seize on this fact and in future one might suppose that the Hierarchy will have learned from this .
15 She needs to give in public and in private her full personal support to the Princess .
16 In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue .
17 Almost all the interfaces will be supplied with software drivers of one sort or another and in general they all work by intercepting the ZX Spectrum 's printer routine vector .
18 Preferring detente to confrontation , she resisted the pressure from some of her advisers to enter into an offensive alliance with her co-religionists , and in general her policies were conditioned more by political pragmatism than religious zeal .
19 This knowledge is unfortunately of little help in actually factorising f and in general we have to be content with approximation methods .
20 Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary .
21 The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant .
22 School playgrounds are supposed to be safe places , and in general I suppose that they are .
23 The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick .
24 I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today .
25 So you always like conversation and in general you would like to speak .
26 Batch production work is often of this kind and in general it is by no means as unchanging or boring as it might appear to the casual visitor to the factory .
27 Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse .
28 Yet two other Nixon nominees to the Court were rejected by the Senate , and in general it continued to follow a liberal path on civil rights and individual liberties .
29 The work reported on in section 3.3 suggested that there may be economic efficiency ( as well as taxation efficiency ) reasons for the introduction of share options , and in general it suggested that managerial emolument packages should not be in the form of a straight salary but should involve some performance-improving subtleties .
30 ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year .
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