Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government on Aug. 28 published a list of some 160 companies which would remain wholly or partly in state ownership . |
| 2 | The greater part of building in this period was , of course , wholly or partly in timber and little of this exists . |
| 3 | The Revenue will not subsequently be bound by any information or statements given , whether expressly or implicitly in relation to the claim . |
| 4 | In literature too , the period sees the increasing use of English , and although some bilingual ( or even trilingual ) writing occurs in the fifteenth century , notably in macaronic verse , the major authors , from Chaucer and Langland through Malory to Skelton and Wyatt , wrote entirely or principally in English . |
| 5 | They are prone to silting which slows the current and causes shallows ; water levels can vary so that both in flood and drought rivers can become impassable . |
| 6 | At the Cabinet level there were embarrassing signs of the Prime Minister being less than fully in control of events . |
| 7 | Through the following warm hazy days of summer , Laura had realised that she was suddenly and magically in love , for the first time in her life . |
| 8 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 9 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 10 | The problem comes when one tries to link such words with actual available historical tempo measurements , for the results are often quite obviously and inconveniently in conflict with each other and with many present-day assumptions . |
| 11 | By 1893 , despite economies which almost halved its expenditure , it was getting deeper and deeper in debt . |
| 12 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 13 | 432 , that this refusal of consent was a refusal in form only and not in reality . |
| 14 | If voluntary organisations expand , especially if largely in receipt of public money , they tend to take on all the disadvantages of size and age — bureaucratisation or ‘ creeping formalisation ’ , as he calls it . |
| 15 | We are well and have no worries being happy together and not in need William leaving me better provided for than ever I had expected . |
| 16 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 17 | Gleneagles , for example , is now open all the year round rather than just in summer and autumn following a major investment in all-weather sport and leisure facilities . |
| 18 | The difficulty with this relief is that , throughout the period beginning when the employee acquires his shares and ending on the date on which the interest is paid , Newco must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group , rather than merely in existence for one of these purposes . |
| 19 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 20 | The pitch shifter is particularly impressive , offering a full octave above or below in semitone steps . |
| 21 | Then , if it seems necessary , it is possible to go either backwards or forwards in time during that same lifetime to complete the picture . |
| 22 | We can then move backwards or forwards in time . |
| 23 | Their tests evaluated the rule-based grammar and Markov model separately and then in combination . |
| 24 | This chapter briefly reviews these trends , both generally and specifically in mathematics , with particular reference to low attainers , in order to set the NFER project in the context of current developments . |
| 25 | The expression of modal meanings , for instance , can vary widely from language to language and has to be handled sensitively and carefully in translation . |
| 26 | He dangled it from one finger , swung it slowly backwards and forwards in front of the tourist 's eyes . |
| 27 | Connie 's visions of her past are expertly merged with the present as she moves backwards and forwards in time , following an order of association , not chronology . |
| 28 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 29 | A rattlesnake 's fangs are neatly folded away when not in use but are swung forward for the strike . |
| 30 | This clever idea allows the pit to be shut away when not in use , making it look attractive while keeping the sand clean at the same time . |