Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Was The Sunday Times right in that assertion ?
2 Leitzig led him through a succession of corridors until they reached an area marked STORAGE PONDS with a no-entry sign beside it and the words AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY in black paint underneath .
3 By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this .
4 You blame him for saddling Barclays de Zoete Wedd with high overhead costs in putting our brokerage firm and our banking operations together in one building , a building which houses a number of our competitors , as you also point out .
5 At the moment , at least , it seems that gravity can be unified with the other physical interactions only in some supergravity theory .
6 But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours .
7 Robert Bakewell ( 1725–95 ) , experimenting with sheep and cattle-breeding on his farm in north Leicestershire , was convinced that ‘ fifty acres of pasture ground divided into five enclosures will go as far in grazing cattle as sixty acres all in one piece ’ and his opinion was shared by other big graziers .
8 Does the Prime Minister accept that one of the great achievements of the Olympic movement is to bring nations together in sporting endeavour and excellence and that similarly , despite the forthcoming general election , all political parties are brought together to support this country 's bid to host the Olympic games in the year 2000 ?
9 Edwards also states that he is being driven by environmental concern and that climbers are wearing the crags away in some place .
10 There are also some interesting survivals in terminology like ‘ standards ’ , and ‘ monitors ’ , both words still in common use throughout Africa , both harking back to the English era of ‘ payment by results ’ in the late nineteenth century .
11 He firstly introduces the greater beneficial effects of administering remedies always in liquid form , the reason for this being that the medicine ‘ comes in contact with a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the medicinal action ’ ( 5th edition §286 ) and because of this the effect of the remedy increases .
12 Subjects low in musical aptitude showed larger between ear differences on tests of chord analysis than did subjects of greater aptitude but within the same aptitude level there was no effect of experience .
13 Too far along her own road to hell to draw back now , she continued rashly , her eyes wide in feigned surprise .
14 The maths that you do ties up in some way with usually ties up with reality there 's some reason for it .
15 Colourful houses are on every side , with frescoes celebrating heroes of long ago and episodes that are remembered from centuries back in Swiss history .
16 Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it .
17 ( Doubling times , and other measures of the growth of science , are described in Price , a source of several significant bibliometric parameters now in general use ) .
18 Also , they use four different channels simultaneously in normal operation .
19 NT wo n't support SMP until version 2 , still some 18 months out in any case , and Microsoft has n't yet decided what it 'll do for that stuff yet .
20 However , there are ambiguities even in these power relationships .
21 Britain and France joined other western creditors 18 months ago in halting aid to President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya to force him to hold democratic elections .
22 Water rose bushes regularly in dry weather , dead-head any faded flowers and spray with Roseclear ( ICI ) against mildew , blackspot and aphids .
23 In order to create distinct patterns the mind has to separate things sharply one from the other , just as a driver seeks to separate the road from its borders even in dim light .
24 Up to half the people visiting CAB offices even in well-off country areas will be facing money troubles they ca n't handle
25 Where the vendor was attempting to define quality , a common restriction included in conveyances earlier in this century was that houses must cost not less than , say , £1000 .
26 Charles arrived in Rome , perhaps intentionally , during Holy Week , and celebrated the Easter festivities there in great ostentation and style .
27 But this is an obvious over-simplification , and I would not wish to go back on my words earlier in this chapter about those wise men who claim to see a pattern in history .
28 Three major steps forward in diabetic care in this century have been the discovery of insulin , the development of treatment programmes for diabetic ketoacidosis and the management of pregnancy in the diabetic patient .
29 He had taken his first steps forward in English politics by denouncing the emphasis on German politics ; he was able to shift to a position the King found acceptable by adopting the policy he later described by saying ‘ America was conquered in Germany ’ , and this approach suited Britain 's position very well .
30 But since the principle of indiscernibles remained in force in his theory , there was no means of telling two identical complexes apart in any case , and the whole idea of particularity remained as obscure as it had ever been .
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