Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results indicate that pupils need more practical experience but the result of an APU practical test item suggests that lower attainers would currently do no better in a practical than in a written test situation . |
| 2 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 3 | The fundamental issue , however , was not disposed of by this , and we shall see in chapter 7 how it erupted afresh in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 4 | On the contrary peacocks do n't live long in the wild because of those enormous tails make them easy to catch for predators . |
| 5 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 6 | Furthermore , they were pointing out that legalism and the exclusion of parents would have paradoxical consequences : the last-resort philosophy and pessimism about care could lead to reluctance to recognize the signs of abuse , which in turn — especially in a hard-pressed and under-resourced situation such as that faced by many inner-city authorities — could have fatal results . |
| 7 | But there was no lack of class on show , especially in a fast and furious opening 40 minutes when Saints young guns Gary Connolly and Alan Hunte ripped in for three tries . |
| 8 | Yet not all such sources have been completely lost , for the historian of Cnut , so ill-served by contemporary records , is more fortunate in those produced after his death , and especially in the late-eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 9 | By this he meant that the appeal to revelation upon which Barth laid such emphasis , especially in the 1920s and 1930s , was in the end all too arbitrary and served to evade genuine questions about the basis for theological affirmations . |
| 10 | Wolf Wolfensberger , an American professor of education and rehabilitation working with mentally handicapped people , was a particularly powerful influence on the ‘ normalization ’ movement , especially in the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 11 | One solution , especially in the remoter and poorer areas , has been to shed labour and reduce costs . |
| 12 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 13 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 14 | The influx of immigrants into Britain , especially in the 1950s and early 1960s , has also added to the diversity of the population and to linguistic differences . |
| 15 | Especially in the 1950s and 1960s , the capacity of the party in government to enact a party program was compared with the brokered politics of the American system . |
| 16 | Especially in the civic and voluntary field , the need to spread the responsibility and ensure others have their turn is or should be an essential feature of citizenship . |
| 17 | Though the Church was the great patron of the Middle Ages , the rising wealth of the merchant classes , especially in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , led to the erection of many fine secular buildings : town halls , trade and guild halls , palaces , manor houses , town mansions and bridges . |
| 18 | Although there are records of floods and sand storms , especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , machair provides both arable and grazing land and it is the focus of most Hebridean crofting agriculture ( Caird , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The apparent paucity of copper may result from the emplacement of relatively anhydrous granites into tectonised and anhydrous metasediments , especially in the Dalradian and Moinian sediments of Scotland which were metamorphosed during the Ordovician Grampian orogeny and the later Caledonian event . |
| 20 | Some of the rise in import penetration would undoubtedly have occurred anyway , especially in the fifties when non-tariff restrictions were dismantled and firms took advantage of falling transport costs and rapid growth of demand to break into new markets . |
| 21 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 22 | It is hard to underestimate the impact of the monasteries , especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 23 | There seems little doubt that such feeling existed , especially in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 24 | Researchers studying the other senses document numerous similar results , and what occurs in laboratories will be outnumbered by those discriminations occurring naturally in the wild that nobody knows anything about . |
| 25 | Moreover , resistances other than those posed by ‘ immediate experience ’ are ignored ; for instance , possible sexual anxieties provoked by moral panics , common enough in the 1970s and early 1980s , around black ‘ muggers ’ and ‘ rapists ’ . |
| 26 | We may observe in passing that while it seems obvious enough in the abstract that we should distinguish between what is good in itself and what is good as a means , more is at stake here than conceptual clarity . |
| 27 | In most situations it is unusual and unnecessary to dwell on features of the research design , except perhaps in a boring and unread appendix , but in our instance we feel it is important to spend a chapter outlining the nature of the research design and location , and the associated problems , in order for the findings to be placed in their context , and to ensure that these considerations be taken seriously . |
| 28 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 29 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 30 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |