Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.9 Sterling commercial paper The development of the market has not been as rapid or as extensive as in many other European countries . |
| 2 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 3 | In the general population in 1987 , 11% of households contained a non-dependent child , defined as a child over 16 , or over 19 if in full time education or training up to this age . |
| 4 | If baby is sick or very premature and in intensive care , this may also disrupt the establishment of breastfeeding . |
| 5 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |
| 6 | In his Golden Bough Sir James Frazer had difficulty in making up his mind between the two rival theories of the fire-cults and fire-festivals which are found intimately connected with the agricultural year throughout those parts of the world where the sun is neither so bright nor so constant as in the cloudless skies of Egypt . |
| 7 | In secreting intestine UK-ORS led to chloride secretion ( p<0.001 ) whereas the other ORS still led to net chloride absorption albeit much lower than in normal intestine . |
| 8 | He was finding that oddly agreeable because in spite of previous unpleasant skirmishes with her , her frank arrogance had always engaged him . |
| 9 | Some guitars had a clear perspex plate with an inscribed ‘ Höfner ’ logo , but this one is gold coloured , which , although certainly complementary and in keeping with the ‘ Golden ’ aspect , does partially marr the f-holed symmetry of the guitar . |
| 10 | Figure 2 shows that the relative amount of HLA-DRA mRNA , normalized to the β-actin mRNA content , is much higher in AR cells than in RJ2.2.5 , although significantly lower than in Raji . |
| 11 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 12 | And because it is the tradition , it all seems at once brisker and more tender , easier and less crucial than in the outside world : though this may be an error ; the easiness might be an art too . |
| 13 | More generally , British transport policy itself is more fragmented and less coordinated than in other European countries , such as West Germany and France , which stress ‘ intermodal ’ planning . |
| 14 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 15 | The basic pyramidal or shield-like form of the stomach still recalls tribal sculpture , but the deformation of the figure is at once more geometrical and less extreme than in most of the Cézannesque paintings and less rigid than in the Negroid paintings ; forms are faceted or subdivided in a more elaborate fashion than hitherto , so that one 's eye passes freely from one sculptural element to another . |
| 16 | The basic pyramidal or shield-like form of the stomach still recalls tribal sculpture , but the deformation of the figure is at once more geometrical and less extreme than in most of the Cézannesque paintings and less rigid than in the Negroid paintings ; forms are faceted or subdivided in a more elaborate fashion than hitherto , so that one 's eye passes freely from one sculptural element to another . |
| 17 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 18 | Physical discomforts , however , were now partially offset by the fact that the legal immunities of diplomats were becoming more clearly defined and generally recognised than in the past . |
| 19 | If so , it is to be hoped that their contribution to support of old people , and their need for support themselves , will be more sensitively and generously appraised than in the past . |
| 20 | As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations . |
| 21 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 22 | Points to make in the context of this table are , again , the very large turnover involved and the fact that profit margins are healthier and more stable than in the tour operator case . |
| 23 | The teeth are longer and more slender than in any other crocodilian . |
| 24 | I was delighted with the attribution of a motive more understandable and more worthy than in biblical and Miltonic tradition and was lost in admiration of the boldness that could characterize the Supreme Being . |
| 25 | As the population of Wales is smaller and more dispersed than in England , the creation of community councils as successors to former boroughs and urban district councils was more widespread than the creation of successor parishes in England . |
| 26 | It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life . |
| 27 | The contradictions of liberalism — particularly those involved in the conflict between local liberties and a uniform liberal constitution — were nowhere more disastrous and more evident than in America . |
| 28 | Across the canyon rose Illimani 's triple summit , glinting in the dawn light and far grander than in our tiny photo , while to the right the untold delights of the Cordillera Real began to unfold . |
| 29 | Antitrust policy in America , they say , is still stricter than in Europe and far stricter than in Japan . |
| 30 | Group sales in the first two months of 1993 were ahead of internal forecasts and substantially higher than in the same period of 1992 . |