Example sentences of "[be] in [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars . |
| 2 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 3 | The principles of the two applications of games theory are in many ways the same but their results point , in a sense , in opposite directions . |
| 4 | Words are in many ways the tools of thought ; they are what the individual uses to formulate as well as express his ideas . |
| 5 | Information sharing , access , and security are in many ways the same issue viewed from different angles , with the emphasis varying according to how open an organisation is . |
| 6 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 7 | The influences just outlined are in most cases the more important ones but they are by no means the only ones — nor are they exclusive . |
| 8 | However , there will also be in some cases the judge 's view of the relative culpability of the prisoner and co-defendants . |
| 9 | Furthermore , some of the changes happening in those schools visited were not due purely to the introduction of financial devolution , being in some cases the result of a change of personnel at senior level . |
| 10 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 11 | Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies . |
| 12 | The barren heights of Bodmin Moor now not surprisingly among the most lightly populated areas of Cornwall , were in ancient days the most densely settled . |
| 13 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 14 | The odd one out in my list is in many ways the most beguiling . |
| 15 | The changing history of Switchboard is in many ways the history of changing needs of lesbians and gay men and a reflection of a growing understanding of our diversity . |
| 16 | Thorn 's ( 1968 ) classification is in many ways the most interesting for social geographers . |
| 17 | The introduction is in many ways the most important part of the essay . |
| 18 | Although in the O'Keefe model there are indeed specific place cells ( and during the 1980s other researchers were able to identify , in monkeys , cells which fired in response to even more precise inputs , such as photographs of particular faces : the concept of a cognitive map is in many ways the precise antithesis of the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ model of behaviour offered by Kandel . |
| 19 | Although perhaps reminiscent of the Whitbread race , with its high profile , closely fought circumnavigation , the British Steel Challenge is in many ways the antithesis . |
| 20 | It 's er and it is in many ways the kernel of the of the concept . |
| 21 | The security of possession of the Family Allowance book is in some cases the final consideration which enables a woman , with the help of friends and relations , to end an intolerable marriage . |
| 22 | The retributivist principle — that wrongdoers should be punished because they deserve it — is in some ways the complete antithesis of reductivism . |
| 23 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 24 | Planaria also show another form of short-term learning , called sensitization , which is in some ways the antithesis of habituation . |
| 25 | In parallel experiments the group showed that sensitization , which is in some ways the reverse of habituation ( see Chapters 6 and 7 ) , also involved presynaptic processes , this time requiring an increase in serotonin production and calcium entry into the cells . |
| 26 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 27 | Holiday was in many ways the first modern pop vocalist . |
| 28 | A woman 's sexuality indeed was in many ways the key to her economic survival . |
| 29 | He was in many ways the wrong choice in the harsh atmosphere of 1952 . |
| 30 | But the Doncaster Cord was in many ways the most interesting . |