Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 2 | Omar believed we would do better in this lowland country if we used camels rather than mules . |
| 3 | Make a more assured and selective use of a wider range of grammatical and lexical features , characteristic of different styles , that are appropriate for topic , purpose and audience , eg in impersonal writing choosing vocabulary that does not betray attitudes or feelings ; in poetic writing choosing vocabulary that conveys attitudes , responses or emotions . |
| 4 | Some , often but not necessarily in early adult life , behaved peculiarly and described visions ; they were said to have dementia praecox or , in more recent language , schizophrenia . |
| 5 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 6 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 7 | In the majority white British culture , there are phases in people 's lives when shared accommodation does feature , especially in young adult life and in old age . |
| 8 | Sometimes there 's nothing at all , especially in good summer weather . |
| 9 | Assuming they do , then the following month the sandstorms begin , when it is very difficult to fight , especially in chemical warfare kit . |
| 10 | It looks as though there had been a Phoenician settlement on the island which introduced this strain ; and though in pottery a true Geometric style supervenes , the eastern tradition seems to linger on , especially in fine gold work , to link up with the orientalising phase proper . |
| 11 | The rest of the economy remains in deep trouble , with the government hesitant to introduce painful reform , especially in subsidised state industry . |
| 12 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 13 | ‘ They asked me if there was anything worn under the kilt and I told them no , it was all in good working order , ’ remarked Lewis drily . |
| 14 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't actually ever print anything , you would actually put it into a machine ? |
| 15 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't ever actually print anything , you would actually put it into a machine . |
| 16 | So in that way Mother bade farewell to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 17 | So in 1989 petrol power gave way to a 1.8-litre diesel Escort , which has now been replaced by the latest version . |
| 18 | The mechanisation of agriculture and industry is cutting work opportunities , so in many cases living standards are declining . |
| 19 | I would also hold that he was not obliged to do so in discretionary life sentence cases . |
| 20 | So in this case space is infinite . |
| 21 | Gas bubbles in any liquid tend to rise to the surface , so in any basalt lava flow , it is only the top part which is likely to have a honeycomb texture . |
| 22 | So in three dimensions inversion turns an infinite plane into a finite sphere in a one-to-one mapping of every point . |
| 23 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 24 | Mean basal secretory volume was less in old subjects overall ( 71 ( 7 ) ml ; p<0.01 ) , and in old subjects without atrophy ( 66 ( 8 ) ml ; p<0.02 ) than in young subjects ( 110 ( 14 ) ml ) . |
| 25 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 26 | The school library is a major part of the information environment in the school and the school librarian , in her/his neutral position , can ensure that Prestel is used across the curriculum and not only in one subject area . |
| 27 | A few cases dominate this reporting , while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper . |
| 28 | Not only in this case will knowledge of the work itself be required , but the necessity for case management and monitoring will also need to be addressed ( see further Chapter 3 ) . |
| 29 | Only in this case can breathing and heartbeat continue independently of the patient 's own ability to sustain them . |
| 30 | Not only in this fumigation method gaining wide recognition in the U.K. but throughout the world the bubble is being marketed under the Rentokil patent and is available in the U.S.A. through B & G Inc . |