Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 2 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 3 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 4 | In one or other of these ways , seeds are usually produced abundantly in normal seasons . |
| 5 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 6 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 7 | He could run and jump and climb much better in bare feet , and he could do it all without making a sound . |
| 8 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 9 | Better in many cases to stick the photographs in at the printing stage and have them done by traditional methods . |
| 10 | However , they made flesh at the expense of milk : the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions . |
| 11 | The FAO fears a mass extinction of native breeds which survive better in harsh conditions , and the loss of crucial disease-resistant genes . |
| 12 | Suppleness helps to keep you looking younger too as you will be able to move and walk better in later years . |
| 13 | Birds which are able to dive deeply , such as the auks ( razorbills , guillemots , puffins and black guillemots ) fared better in some areas but have had poor breeding success in others . |
| 14 | Do you handle these emotions better in some situations than in others ? |
| 15 | Better in some ways . |
| 16 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 17 | Different kinds of signals work better in different environments . |
| 18 | and medicine they actually did slightly better in social studies , arts and language subjects . |
| 19 | Highly strung horses do better in loose boxes ( stables ) either in a barn or in a yard |
| 20 | The culture industry does retain a trace of something better in those features which bring it close to the circus , in the self-justifying and nonsensical skill of riders , acrobats and clowns , in the ‘ defense and justification of physical as against intellectual art ’ ( Wedekind ) . |
| 21 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |
| 22 | But she had dreamed of it endlessly in those days when she had adored him . |
| 23 | you 're just paying out that amount of money and suddenly in one goes ' a big , bi , like quite a shock . |
| 24 | ( iv ) Discussion should focus on the effects , in context , of different types of vocabulary , eg archaic , literary , figurative , emotive , dialectal , colloquial , scientific etc. ; of grammatical features such as structural repetition , eg in scripted speeches , advertisements , literary prose , poems etc ; of lexical and grammatical ambiguity ; of the use of grammatical deviance for special effect , eg in advertisements , slogans , poems etc . |
| 25 | Similarly , the payment of 1007 gained two years ' respite , but then the enemy returned , apparently in greater numbers . |
| 26 | The only major Ottoman initiatives against the Karamanids in the years immediately before 822/1419 that are reported by the Turkish sources are two campaigns , apparently in successive years , in each of which the Ottomans defeated Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and attacked Konya . |
| 27 | Perhaps the commonest stone vessels were those that were compact in form , like birds ' nests , but more ambitious forms were attempted even from the beginning , such as the circular pot-lids with handles in the form of a reclining dog , made , apparently in some numbers , at Mochlos in around 2500 BC . |
| 28 | but now apparently in most cases it 's very rare with that so it 's got ta be too much eating and why do people over eat |
| 29 | The mathematical solution is given below in spherical coordinates , r , 0 ( the solution is of course independent of the azimuth angle |
| 30 | The first major point is that the text is basically in two parts : sentences 1–6 and sentences 7–15 . |