Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It should be noted that the name ‘ schlieren ’ is occasionally used to refer to optical methods in general rather than this specific one , which is then known as the Topler-schlieren method . ) |
| 2 | A move towards supporting business activities is likely to lead to more investment in favourable rather than more depressed economies , as the SDA attempts to assist ‘ winners ’ . |
| 3 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 4 | Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture . |
| 5 | Cut the pepper in half lengthways and remove seeds and stem . |
| 6 | The state , and the civil bureaucracy in particular even when fused into the party apparatus , controlled the social formation of the Third Reich in the interest of German monopoly capital . |
| 7 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 8 | So that 's sixty pence in thirty today and thirty tomorrow . |
| 9 | The result of seeing the difference in women 's experiences in positive rather than negative terms — seeing women as having something to offer philosophy rather than seeing them as inferior or aberrant versions of a male norm — is that the contours of familiar conceptual landscapes begin to change . |
| 10 | The county councillor remembers one act in particular possibly because the ‘ jokes ’ were so convoluted . |
| 11 | Ironically , he made the accusation in 1931 shortly before he himself exercised ‘ power without responsibility ’ as the dominant figure in Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition government , controlling MacDonald 's government without bearing the responsibility of being Prime Minister . |
| 12 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ thinkers , on the other hand , tend to perceive child care matters in personal rather than political terms and are more inclined to the views expressed or implied in the following comments by respondents from this group : ‘ you could never have done anything with this poor mother ’ , and : |
| 13 | In the sixth century AD they fortified what was to become one of the most symbolic sites in national rather than regional history . |
| 14 | There was a tendency to acquiesce in low expectations of disadvantaged children and to define their needs in emotional rather than educational terms . |
| 15 | The Algerians were denied a second-round place in 1982 only because of their inferior goal difference to both Austria and Wst Germany . |
| 16 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 17 | Cut the rich fruit cake in half diagonally and place one half on top of the other to form a triangle , sandwiching on with a little apricot glaze . |
| 18 | Cut the cake in half horizontally and sandwich together again with the chocolate buttercream . |
| 19 | Split the cake in half horizontally and sandwich together again with some of the buttercream . |
| 20 | Documentos 4 is published by FUMEC-AL/C in Spanish only and is available from FUMEC-AL/C , Departamento de Prensa y Comunicaciones , Casilla 17–21–967 , Quito , Ecuador . |
| 21 | As Prime Minister he accepted the resignation of his Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958 rather than agree to modest public expenditure cuts . |
| 22 | And he 's into heavy metal and and we , we both seem to have things in common like and she do does n't like me and she does n't erm you know , she seems the same with me as as she is with John . |
| 23 | Before Mr Stewart was charged , there was a tacit agreement that pilots could admit flying problems in private so that others could be warned in time to avoid disaster . |
| 24 | The politically active came to see Britain 's problems in international rather than exclusively domestic terms , an important change for many in the Labour Party . |
| 25 | I need to start flat-hunting in earnest now that the lease is signed . ’ |
| 26 | And there 's row upon row of the string-making machines themselves — rather like lightweight industrial lathes , but each one capable of turning out one or two wound strings in little more than ten seconds . |
| 27 | I thought how , how can I swear an oath to god in all honestly if I 'm not sure there is one , I thought yeah blimming right , I mean , she would n't just take , say it so she obviously said , she obviously said the right theories |
| 28 | This division of the tribes cut across their earlier affiliations and origins since most of those on both sides of the Thames Estuary had been Gallo-Belgic migrants crossing the Channel and settling in these areas , mainly as a consequence of Caesar 's advance into Gaul in 39 BC and possibly earlier . |
| 29 | We discuss the role of money in the Keynesian model in Chapter 22 where we see that a change in the money supply , according to this model , only affects national income through its effect on the rate of interest ; it is because of this that Keynesians have usually put more faith in fiscal rather than monetary policy . |
| 30 | Comprising three tiers of small chambers rising up the steep slopes of the Quirinal Hill , the markets were completed by Emperor Trajan in 112 AD and formed the commercial centre of ancient Rome . |