Example sentences of "[adv] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its effect has been dramatic , especially in transforming the British manufacturing sector . |
| 2 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
| 3 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 4 | What nobody seemed to notice was that the text of Article 23 , by referring to ‘ pre-trial discovery of documents as known in Common Law countries ’ , and especially in omitting the earlier reference to discovery between the parties , covered some types of the form of discovery known in the United States , which is far wider in its scope than that known in other Common Law countries . |
| 5 | I thank the Secretary of State for acting so expeditously in establishing the two public inquiries . |
| 6 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 7 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 8 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 9 | The move was far enough in suggest the future transfer of greater validation responsibility in institutions , but not far enough to suggest the degree of autonomy that many of the polytechnic directors had sought . |
| 10 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 11 | Kant 's distinctions between analytic and synthetic judgements and between the a priori and a posteriori are obviously important to the philosophy of knowledge , but their influence on the structure of the curriculum is not obvious , except perhaps in reinforcing the general sense that mathematics is somehow unlike all other subjects . |
| 12 | The applications sometimes know this because the employer says so in acknowledging the first approach . |
| 13 | This sector plays a leading role , not only in controlling the greatest share of land , but also in producing three-fifths of the volume of agricultural production ( Curtis 1983 ) . |
| 14 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
| 15 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
| 16 | This treatment may prove valuable not only in ameliorating the inflammatory response , but also in chronic ulcerative colitis , and it may even find a place in preventing colonic cancer . |
| 17 | The last thing either side wants is a public trial of strength which would probably succeed only in damaging the long-term interests of each . |
| 18 | The fragmentary analysis of nature succeeds only in obscuring the real and deepening the mystery . |
| 19 | The value of the model is not only in recasting the traditional notion of the Co-operative Principle ( from Grice 1975 ) , but also in describing the resolution of meaning as a principled negotiation between text and reader . |
| 20 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 21 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 22 | The attempt to hold it together at gunpoint may succeed only in blowing the Soviet Union apart more violently . |
| 23 | The difficulty lay not only in hitting the tiny spinning fragments of silver but also missing the bigger objects flying all around . |
| 24 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 25 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 26 | These two types of feminist writing , one in , and the other beginning to go beyond , art history , work together in creating the proper conditions for knowledge about this European woman 's work . |
| 27 | In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question . |
| 28 | He assisted nevertheless in keeping the Protectionist party together in a difficult period , with few resources and little help from his leaders . |
| 29 | The equivocal evidence about the direction of movement of material has been discussed above in considering the general direction of movement on this coast . |
| 30 | Realism , then , consists ‘ not in copying the real , but in copying a ‘ painted ’ copy of the real' ( p. 55 ) . |