Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common suggestion for garam masala I find in authentic Indian cookery books usually suggests equal quantities of cinnamon , cardamom and clove , with or without the pepper , a perfect complement to the spices of the mixture that began the cooking . |
| 2 | Material is continually arriving deep within the mass of dead-looking rock , however , and the pressure of this imperceptibly forces up spines of solid lava which rise in jagged battlements along the crest of the dome . |
| 3 | We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society . |
| 4 | Do many or most of the important symptoms of the remedy which appear in bold type match the strongest symptoms of the case ? |
| 5 | This complexity is ignored by many of the approaches to ideology which have in common a tendency towards what may be termed ‘ objectivism ’ , a term which emphasizes a general antipathy towards a subject- or agency-centered perspective . |
| 6 | By contrast , in " pre-industrial " societies there are often a variety of media of exchange which circulate in different social spheres but which are not interchangeable in any straight-forward fashion . |
| 7 | Some examples of one-to-one correspondence which arise in particular activities are given below . |
| 8 | Around Britain it is estimated that there are now 180,000 single people without a permanent home who live in temporary shelters , hostels or on the streets . |
| 9 | As Schotland argues : ‘ [ w ] hen we engage in economic analysis , we do not banish permanently the legal and moral aspects of the problem analyzed . |
| 10 | The search for consistency , on this account , can explain why judges are so concerned with the past , with the various statutes and precedents lying in the neighbourhood of the new law they create in hard cases . |
| 11 | It 's very expensive to for what it is , I mean it 's fifteen pounds a ticket but if you , if you 're a member of course you get in reduced |
| 12 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 13 | Besides the formal courses organized by local education authorities ( LEAs ) , initial training institutions and HMI , one must include public reports upon educational developments ( Warnock , Bullock , Plowden ) , and , published privately , the Gulbenkian Report ( Gulbenkian Foundation , 1982 ) in the arts education domain ; the reports of curriculum development programmes , for example , the Schools Curriculum Development Committee ( SCDC ) Arts in Schools Project bulletins ; digests of research , descriptions of practice and opinion which appear in professional journals ; formal and informal contact with LEA advisory services , including the growing number of teachers seconded for professional development purposes ; inspections ; long and short award bearing courses ; changes in examination syllabuses ( of which the recent introduction of GCSE is an example ) ; even teacher contact with the representatives of educational suppliers . |
| 14 | It also signals in passing your awareness of issues of gender , race and other questions of social distinction which arise in literary study ; this awareness should then extend into your choice of particular texts and authors to study , and into the comments and analysis of images of gender , sexuality and difference you develop . |
| 15 | I refer to what has been , is and will be happening to the financing of some of the most frail and vulnerable members of our community who live in residential or nursing homes . |
| 16 | Most of the 15% of the world 's population who live in rich industrial countries have similar feelings about the 85% who live in poor ones : the ‘ poor ’ may be more numerous , but they do not produce much . |
| 17 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 18 | For this purpose lenders should be considered to be part of the same group if they are parties to the same agreement or course of dealing , even if it is not always the same members of the group who participate in individual financings entered into under that agreement or course of dealing . |
| 19 | Well , yes , they have in cash terms and for a proportion of the population they have in real terms too . |
| 20 | In this context of trust and security they engage in sexual relations . |
| 21 | They receive information on it from people they trust , and whose opinion they hold in high regard . |
| 22 | These are included in order to illustrate the kind of structural and situational constraint we face in developing ‘ Pub Grub ’ operations . |
| 23 | Or or the rest I mean in general |
| 24 | I think that er that is a question better directed towards the French , possibly my colleagues in the foreign office but my understanding is that the French assembly have indeed er approved ratification er but the French government i is declining er to append the appropriate signatures to it er er until agreement over the erm the parliament building at at Strasbourg is completed erm but my honourable friend I think in true parliamentary form , asks questions to which he already feels he knows pretty well what the answer is and I suspect that my answer squares with what he knows already . |
| 25 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 26 | However , inside it , they evolve into a race of protozoa which spin in tight circles . |
| 27 | In the same year the Swiss scholar , J. J. Bachofen , published Das Mutterrecht , ( Mother Right ) , a book showing that matriliny , the tracing of descent through women , and matriarchy , the dominance of women in society , as well as the cult of female goddesses , preceded the patriarchy and the patriliny we find in Biblical and Classical societies . |
| 28 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 29 | Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public . |
| 30 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |