Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.

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1 How likely is the disease to be passed on or acquired in any one given act of sexual intercourse between an infected and an uninfected person ?
2 ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ .
3 But sometimes you ca n't even identify an intervening variable , they just seem to have occurred together or arise in some way .
4 She had a wonderful memory and recalled much that happened in both world wars .
5 If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc .
6 So that means in another hour , you 'll be going nine hundred ?
7 2 Copy the figures below and draw in all their lines of symmetry .
8 Just some ordinary ones , just to stick in and leave in all the time .
9 come in and stay in that 's it , stay in and do your own whatever , and then we 'll go , when I go and get the cos dad 's on late , we 'll go to the hospital then she 's got John and Claire and erm the other pair are going this afternoon
10 I mean the next thing they 'd want to do is to come in and do in this kitchen before you do any cooking for yourself
11 Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ?
12 The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away .
13 The miner left the house gloomily but returned in half an hour with the fingers working .
14 Later , in November 1918 , all internal and foreign trade was nationalised , the latter having little practical significance at that time , since foreign trade had by then all but ceased in those parts of the country in the control of the Soviets .
15 However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure .
16 The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index .
17 Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition .
18 Already we have seen microspeciation occurring in trees in Trinidad and Tobago ( section 6.2.6 ) , but it has also been suggested that in crossing major faunal boundaries , plant species may undergo so-called ‘ cryptic ’ speciation with major differences in fruit sizes and so on , associated with different dispersers ; i.e. obscured rather than obscure in that herbarium material is rarely preserved with fully ripe fruits and complete field notes .
19 There is clear advantage — in terms of time use — in prescribing drugs rather than engaging in more time consuming counselling , or confronting the social origins of the problems .
20 You avoid the airport crushes and delays and the interminable transfers driving need take no longer than flying in many cases .
21 It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators .
22 Post-Fordism implies that management , too , has to be decentralized and forms of work discipline changed , because they can no longer be organized through hierarchies in which standardized messages are passed from above and implemented in any very straightforward fashion .
23 In the absence of consensus , government has to be bold enough to propose its own answers , and these must be seen to incorporate an underlying principle , carried through and exemplified in all of the stages of education from primary to tertiary .
24 The ceiling in the old kitchen was painted dark grey and etched with circles , some enclosing helixes and geometric foliate forms , while the fireplaces were surrounded by brickwork , itself painted over and ornamented in all kinds of ways .
25 As we have seen , schools are also to be given the option of leaving the Local Authority altogether and becoming in some sense independent , though with non-fee-paying pupils .
26 Huge amounts of information can now be compressed digitally and sent in both directions along television cables .
27 ( b ) the RFL is struck off or suspended in any of his or her home jurisdictions — in this case the Society has a discretion to terminate the suspension , thus re-instating the RFL , on application by the RFL .
28 The curtilage of a building will include the ground that is used for the comfortable enjoyment of that building even though it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way ( Sinclair-Lockhart 's Trustees v Central Land Board ( 1950 ) 1 P & CR 195 ) .
29 The number of private homes more than tripled in that period , so that by 1986 over 52 per cent of all residential homes were in private hands .
30 Thorough preparation of the plot before sowing also say off those other perennial horrors , couch and horsetail , both of which can go down 6ft or more and spread in all directions .
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