Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] in " in BNC.
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1 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
2 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
3 | Like many commonplace food products , including salt or even carrots , alcohol can be regarded as harmful if consumed in very large amounts , but at low levels of consumption it is harmless . |
4 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
5 | That is , the motivating biological metaphor of the Prisoners ' Dilemma generates a transition rule that is simple , but it would look horrendous if expressed in canonical cellular automata terms . |
6 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
7 | The size of a piece of furniture can look amazingly different when placed in different surroundings — lost in a vast , tall room , overpowering in a small one . |
8 | As you become more experienced you will begin to appreciate that a coin can in fact sound slightly different when detected in varying types of ground . |
9 | And since phonemic constraints across word boundaries often no longer successfully apply at the mid-class level , the total number of ways of parsing a given mid-class string into words is likely to increase considerably , despite the fact that the lexicon remains highly discriminable when represented in mid-classes . |
10 | Although the study of Huttenlocher & Zue ( 1984 ) suggests that words in the lexicon remain highly discriminable when represented in broad-classes , or a mixture of broad-classes and phonemes , an excessively large number of word-strings can be derived when these kinds of phonological representations are parsed in continuous speech . |
11 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
12 | In addition , the prevalence of HLA-B8 and DR3 was similar in the two groups although not as high as reported in previous studies of primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
13 | It is possible to achieve the largest offsets in Pb isotopic composition at Madeira with U/Pb as high as measured in the lavas in 130Myr , the age of the lithosphere ( Fig. 2c ) . |
14 | ‘ Thus , within each homogeneous unit , individual action is considered typical or atypical as judged in the light of the social roles determined by the group ’ ( Wagner 1979c:59 ) . |
15 | I have expanded on the teaching of English as exemplifying in a particularly clear way the distinction between the practical and the theoretical . |
16 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
17 | Measurements of are made using a differential refractometer employing the same wavelength of light as used in the light scattering . |
18 | Surely she could n't really have been so foolish as to fall in love with Guido Falcone ? |
19 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
20 | In fact , many people are effectively tied to rural areas because of their own or their spouse 's occupation , and residential choice is not free as envisaged in the theoretical residential decision-making models . |
21 | These parts of the file are interrelated as shown in Fig. 7.1 . |
22 | Various experiments , not all shown here , agree with the conclusion that the reference measurement is very reliable when measured in isolation . |
23 | The reasonableness of this is manifest when viewed in the light of the fact that a great many of the most important human decisions do , after all , ultimately have to rely on mathematics for their resolution , if only by virtue of the principle of the majority vote being allowed to prevail in , for example , political matters . |
24 | SCOTLAND 'S industrial base has shrunk so dramatically that there are almost as many people unemployed as working in manufacturing , previously unpublished figures showed yesterday , writes Joy Copley . |
25 | Alpha particles , the strongest of the three , would be stopped by a barrier of paper , but could be dangerous if ingested in food or dust . |
26 | Atkin ( 1979 ) lists the following as employed in some areas of the USA , at some time in the recent past : |
27 | If not , then it is not defective just because it is dangerous when used in that way . |
28 | direct debits under the instruction will be originated only in respect of premiums payable as notified in advance and agreed by you ; |
29 | The metalinguistic view remains in several ways odd and indeed unsuccessful when regarded in the more plausible way . |
30 | Such deficiencies in the number and quality of rural houses were particularly serious when viewed in the context of the inter-war legislation . |