Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 2 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 3 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 5 | ‘ Key issues for AMARC are popular participation in radio , the democratisation of communication , freedom of expression , and radio programming which involves communities and reflects their cultures and values , ’ Ms Vinebohm explained . |
| 6 | When we had parked there had n't been another vehicle in sight . |
| 7 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 8 | There has been some discussion in welfare economics and philosophical ethics about aspects of the problem , but there is no integrated treatment of the general question of valuing demographic changes . |
| 9 | There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest . |
| 10 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 11 | There has been some readjustment in run-up and an encouragement to bowl rather faster . |
| 12 | Multiple-outcome scales , often used to show two series of data simultaneously , are another danger in business graphics . |
| 13 | Bar codes are old hat in retailing . |
| 14 | This column is noted as ‘ not applicable ’ for Kremer colour pastes from AP Fitzpatrick ; this is because although these colours are pure pigment in oil they are not finely ground . |
| 15 | This column is noted as ‘ not applicable ’ for Kremer colour pastes from AP Fitzpatrick ; this is because although these colours are pure pigment in oil they are not finely ground . |
| 16 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 17 | Also , the change in the potential difference phasor V over the infinitesimal element has been neglected in arriving at equation ( 9.74 ) since it only gives rise to terms that are second order in smallness . |
| 18 | The series aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(c) and application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to this aspect gives or This time note that it has been possible to neglect the change in the current phasor I over the infinitesimal element as it only leads to terms that are second order in smallness . |
| 19 | The kidneys are cooked whole in butter and just before serving them you " throw in a wineglassful of burnt gin and a few crushed juniper berries . |
| 20 | In the autumn this fungus develops its winter spores , which are dark brown in colour , round , and 25–30 microns in diameter . |
| 21 | As for church raffles , football club sweeps and fairground tombola , they are fizzy lemonade in comparison and football pools have always seemed to me as harmless as the Christmas sherry . |
| 22 | Life on the Oxford bench is all action for the new team of Denis Smith and Malcom Crosby … they 're first game in charge was a cracker … |
| 23 | Life on the Oxford bench is all action for the new team of Denis Smith and Malcom Crosby … they 're first game in charge was a cracker … |
| 24 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 25 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 26 | Two small additional areas near the river were planted with varieties of willow amongst which were Salix Alba , the familiar white willow which presents a great mound of silver-backed leaves which shimmer and flash in the wind ; Salix Caprea , the goat or pussy willow ; and Salix Daphnoides , the violet willow whose vigorous upright shoots are deep purple in colour and are covered by a white bloom and which should be pruned hard each or every other year to promote new growth . |
| 27 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 28 | There has also been considerable development in sail design in recent years with the result that sails are now far more controllable than the earlier types which resembled blown-out bedsheets . |
| 29 | To the outside observer , there has been considerable change in classroom practice within this maths department . |
| 30 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |