Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
| 2 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |
| 3 | Most often it is described as care returned more or less explicitly in gratitude for what the author had been given in childhood . |
| 4 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
| 5 | Palestine , Egypt , or only somewhere in England ? ’ |
| 6 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 7 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 8 | The standard book on crime in non-Western countries , published in 1973 , asserts that social changes in developing countries in the mid-twentieth century are similar to those which ‘ suddenly produced extensive crime a century or more ago in Europe . ’ |
| 9 | Nobody is going to pay £10 billion ( $17 billion ) or more just in order to destroy ICI . |
| 10 | To complete the cycle , oxygen is necessary , either directly from the air , or more commonly in solution in the water , and this too must be passed over or through the media . |
| 11 | Three-quarters of village income by the mid-1980s was earned outside , either elsewhere in the West Bank , or more usually in Israel , which might account for 60 per cent of village income . |
| 12 | At dawn or before sunset , or more usually in winter when the sun is low in the sky , even very low earthworks or walls cast shadows , thus betraying the presence of an archaeological site . |
| 13 | The radial shields are large and contiguous or nearly so in spinea while they are quite small , usually separated and confined to the edge of the disk in hamula. 3 . |
| 14 | Educationalists concerned with young people have begun to pay much more attention to the concept of ‘ peer education ’ — for example , in relation to smoking , drug or HIV programmes ( eg Smokebusters or Fast Forward in Scotland ) . |
| 15 | One sided pains or even just in spots . |
| 16 | Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance . |
| 17 | Specialist skills , apart from technology/computerization , did not figure very highly or very uniformly in responses , perhaps because it is felt that these are widely catered for already . |
| 18 | When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period , but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform , but not too low — when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape , with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow — when the wind is still or gently fitful , a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds , and it comes from within the chalk . |
| 19 | I think it 's therefore fair to say that perhaps even in Russell 's own eyes , his original epistemological programme , which occupied a great deal of his time and writing , between erm nineteen-twelve and erm the thirties , in fact broke down . |
| 20 | Although somewhat less in individuals who suffered from full-blown manic-depressive psychosis , creativity was found to be significantly raised in both patients and relatives who were rated as cyclothymic . |
| 21 | This sometimes made for superficial complication ; the Third Republic conferred no titles of nobility , yet more were used than ever before in France , thanks to the inflation and confusion of aristocracies which had flowed from the creations of Bourbon , Orleanist and two Imperial régimes . |
| 22 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 23 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 24 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 25 | There is evidence that very early in life children engage in rudimentary forms of role-taking particularly during play : playing mother or nurse or teacher . |
| 26 | The barrio was a place where I felt freer than anywhere else in Salamanca , for it was really a land outside the law , where outcasts at last could feel at home . |
| 27 | They are also four pence cheaper at my Superette than anywhere else in Whaddon . |
| 28 | The North , more than anywhere else in England , depends on railways . |
| 29 | CHILDREN living near Sellafield are TEN TIMES more likely to develop cancer than anywhere else in Britain , a new government report has found . |
| 30 | During its active aviation days , Brooklands witnessed no less than 13,500 individual aircraft first flights of 143 different types , more than anywhere else in Britain . |