Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I trust that Mr. Shelford 's comments are not those held by the staff of RW&P or in future issues can we look forward to ‘ Wayne 's Top 10 maiming tips for mini 's ’ or ‘ Eye gouging and ear biting for beginners ’ . |
| 2 | Only a few of us remain , for though we do not age as mortals do , we can be killed , or in great unhappiness can choose to die . ’ |
| 3 | Quite apart from the scale of any observed effects , and of rather more theoretical importance , was the issue of whether any biochemical change we found was unique to , say , imprinting in the young chick , so that memory for other types of behaviour in older birds or in other species would involve quite different processes . |
| 4 | Body hair growing untidily or in odd places can be removed by waxing in a salon , if you ca n't reach it . |
| 5 | Individuals who wish to travel alone or in small groups may refer to Saga 's latest brochures , whick contain details of holidays to all of these countries , though obviously not to the specific locations . |
| 6 | Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy . |
| 7 | Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live . |
| 8 | Nor is it likely to be possible to infer motive from the outcome or likely outcome of a transaction , since the fact that a project yields less than optimal profits is an inherent risk in all business ventures and except in extreme cases will not reveal the existence of a non-profit goal . |
| 9 | Although in 1978–9 Libyans could time in to Cairo 's radio broadcasts to hear abuse of their leader , Libya 's news services did not air the quarrels with neighbours . |
| 10 | Conviction for this offence may not , therefore , convey the gravity of the conduct involved where consent is lacking , nor in many cases will the two-year penalty suffice . |
| 11 | And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 12 | In addition to the planned introduction of the right to obtain a passport , Myftiu announced that in future defection would be considered as trespass on the country 's borders and not as " betrayal of the homeland " , which had carried the death penalty . |
| 13 | The new treaty contained no military commitments , specifying that in future relations would be based on international law and the accords of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 14 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 15 | For both these reasons , management in this company decided that in future productionisation would be carried out away from the shop-floor . |
| 16 | Party officials may perform functions that in non-communist regimes would be reserved for public servants . |
| 17 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 18 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 19 | And he understood that in that enjoyment would lie his final freedom from a death camp called Sobibor whose memory had remained as the bars to his personal cage decades after its walls and huts and grim enclosures had been overtaken again by a Polish forest . |
| 20 | Eventually the earth would be dug out , remoulded and cast once more in the form of bricks , which would take their place in fresh walls that in due course would crumble again . |
| 21 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 22 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 23 | The Diocese of Durham has been told that in 1992 budgets must be cut by £120,000 , equivalent to the stipends of nine clergy . |
| 24 | It is surprising that in 1992 patients can still be treated with radical radiotherapy , chemotherapy , or surgery , including liver transplantation , without establishing a definitive diagnosis . |
| 25 | Notices show on the Register many matters that in unregistered conveyancing would appear in the Land Charges Register or on the title , such as restrictive covenants , a spouse 's interest under the Matrimonial Homes legislation , and a special form of registering a charge over a land certificate ( an equitable charge ) known as a deposit of land certificate . |
| 26 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 27 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 28 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 29 | In STV constituencies electing three , four or five members better proportionality than in single-member constituencies can be expected , but it is very unlikely to be accurate proportionality . |
| 30 | She liked them , read a lot , and in unemotional situations could use them well . |