Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most often it is described as care returned more or less explicitly in gratitude for what the author had been given in childhood . |
| 3 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nobody is going to pay £10 billion ( $17 billion ) or more just in order to destroy ICI . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No left at home left at home with the washing nice and properly like in fact going to do yours . |
| 15 | WE must be prepared to be flexible ; grasp opportunity ; recognise that we all have customers [ internal and external ] ; give everyone the service that we 'd expect every time ; ask for what we need to get the job done quickly and effectively well in advance of the start date . |
| 16 | The cheapest and most generally in use is the descant recorder , although the other members of the family are equally useful , if harder to play . |
| 17 | Secondly , and most remarkably in view of Birkett and the 1980 White Paper , the phrase was appropriate ‘ because it properly reflects the way in which interception has been authorised by successive governments of the Left and Right ’ , and it emphasizes the important point that the Act provides for no extension of existing practices . |
| 18 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
| 19 | AW will offer to acquire the ordinary shares of Palatine on the following basis : and so on in proportion for any other number of ordinary shares in Palatine . |
| 20 | The essence of a ‘ contrat de programme ’ or ‘ contrat d'entreprise ’ is that a state enterprise agrees to achieve targets for economic performance , physical output , productivity , quality of service , and so on in return for a commitment from the government to provide necessary finance , and to provide compensation for obliging the enterprise to undertake non-commercial activities in the public interest ( Durupty 1986b : 357–96 ) . |
| 21 | Knit welts and so on in black or darker colour . |
| 22 | Knit welts and so on in black or another dark colour . |
| 23 | These offered a variety of recreational activities , swimming , sports , dancing and so on in addition to basic victualling , and borrowed from the ordinary pub the opprobium of encouraging immoral behaviour . |
| 24 | The difference between the male and the female experience of lab work is partly a difference between male and female upbringing ; writers like Kelly ( 1981a ) have been quite correct to point out that women are disadvantaged in science because of their lack of experience with scientific toys , machines and so on in childhood . |
| 25 | Knit welts and so on in white . |
| 26 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 27 | Everyone wanted to be a ‘ star ’ , either in films , music or television ( and perhaps even in religion ) . |
| 28 | And only just in time . |
| 29 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 30 | Melody released him reluctantly — and only just in time . |