Example sentences of "[adv] in [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thus could they interpret stimulus-information sensibly in widely differing contexts and take appropriate action accordingly . |
| 2 | But the guidance is necessarily in fairly general terms , because how the rules apply in a particular case will always depend on the facts of the case . |
| 3 | Thus , methods of drawing together the components of care were developed , especially in federally funded initiatives such as the Community Support Program . |
| 4 | Unanimity , or the next best thing , a decision which no one actually opposes , is not unknown , especially in relatively small groups or communities . |
| 5 | It helps the organisation to anticipate and minimise difficulties , especially in potentially complex situations , by ensuring that careful consideration has been given to alternative courses of action . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1980s it was clear that many UK banks were overexposed to overseas lending risks , especially in less developed countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 7 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 8 | The Vango Odyssey 200 is extremely stable , especially in very high winds |
| 9 | It is usual to seek to limit warranty liability to the amount of the purchase consideration and sometimes , especially in very large transactions possibly with a high property content , a much smaller sum is negotiated . |
| 10 | Although the pre-Inca inhabitants of Colombia and Ecuador worked the metal satisfactorily , apparently by primitive powder metallurgy , this was naturally in very small quantities . |
| 11 | Colloquially , it means man-made chemicals or synthetic chemicals — ones that do not occur in nature , or which only occur naturally in very small quantities , compared to the amounts that we manufacture . |
| 12 | Many and many a time have we looked , have I alone in more recent years looked , for certain things thus revealed to us in passing . |
| 13 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 14 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 15 | Sown into the constitutional fabric of the Republic of Ireland is a local and time-bound Roman catholic ethos which has changed perhaps in only minor ways since the founding of the state . |
| 16 | Among the reasons are greater mobility before retirement , which enables them to acquaint themselves with alternative residential locations , and the financial advantages of moving from larger to smaller houses , perhaps in less expensive areas ( Law and Warnes 1976 ) . |
| 17 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 18 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 19 | These issues continue to lurk in social experience today , but they do so in profoundly different ways . |
| 20 | North , at the public hearings , denied that he ran a war from his desk , but he told his aide Craig Coy that he was doing so in so many words . |
| 21 | It is obviously highly desirable that middle-class youngsters and students drop out of smoking — even in this country , they do so in relatively high numbers — but that concentrates with an even stronger focus the efforts of the tobacco and advertising industries on youngsters who do not come from such categories . |
| 22 | Within each realm there is a hierarchy , so in very general terms in the physical sphere a skin rash or a cold is of minor significance whereas a heart , lung or brain disease is much more serious . |
| 23 | If people are honoured for risking their lives in the not obviously useful pursuit of speed records and mountains to climb , why should they not be encouraged to do so in more worthwhile causes ? |
| 24 | The passengers returned well before eight o'clock in very good spirits , Mercer bringing with him a porter wheeling a case of highly superior bubbles for toasting the Unwins , success . |
| 25 | Biases can creep in in extremely subtle ways , and researchers can , quite unconsciously , favour some groups and disfavour others . |
| 26 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 27 | Dei Verbum invited Catholics to see God 's revelation and human response to it less in merely propositional terms , but more as dynamic operations guided by the Holy Spirit . |
| 28 | The thickness of this unit is normally about 50 m around the margin of the basin , decreasing to 5 m or less in more central parts ( Fig. 4a ) , but locally in Poland and the U.K. it reaches 100–120 m . |
| 29 | It is likely that , whichever it is , it will tell you about the buyers of your product and its competitors only in rather broad terms — those of the basic demographics : age , sex , social grade , area , presence of children . |
| 30 | Physical injury was frequent , not only in notoriously dangerous places like mines , where gas explosions added to the threat of rock falls , gun powder mishaps and shaft falls , but in grinding where the huge wheels sometimes shattered into flying slivers . |