Example sentences of "[det] [conj] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office reports that the birth rate in danger areas is less than half that in other regions , and in Lodz the death rate is higher than the birth rate . |
| 2 | In practice , in this and in other countries , rich people pay higher rates of tax on their marginal earnings above a given level . |
| 3 | Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century . |
| 4 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 5 | I myself was lucky enough last week to see a fine sample of the Lesser Twayblade and another of the Small White Orchid , rare occurrences as far south as this and in these times . |
| 6 | Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography . |
| 7 | Elves live long lives but their children are few and in recent centuries the birthrate has declined steeply . |
| 8 | Now a Glasgow inner city area migh may seem light years away from all this but in many ways the need is just as acute . |
| 9 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |
| 10 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 11 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school , he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes , old Gumboil , economical in this as in all matters , believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education . |
| 12 | The likelihood is that in this as in other matters Beowulf is meant to appear a good prophet , since the unsuccessful , possibly treacherous , but in heroic terms entirely praiseworthy attack which Ingeld made on his father-in-law is repeatedly mentioned in Northern story . |
| 13 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 14 | In this as in other areas , the fundamental error in our approach to policing is revealed : we do not trust the police so we build safeguards into the way they exercise their power . |
| 15 | In this as in other areas the ends can never justify the means . |
| 16 | The Government fully recognise the importance of the industry that my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough , ( Sir J. Farr ) so ably represents , and we want proper GATT disciplines for fair trading in this as in other sectors . |
| 17 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 18 | In this as in other respects particular groups within a class may be rising or falling in importance , according to the general development of the class and the society . |
| 19 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 20 | In this as in other respects ( see Halliday 1971 : 354 ) the language of the second part of The Inheritors is an interesting blend of the standard language and the norms established in the text . |
| 21 | In this as in subsequent encounters with Englishmen , Nkrumah was very sensitive to atmosphere . |
| 22 | Fortunately , there is little chance of that except in extreme cases . |
| 23 | However the pressures are such that in many countries no clear unambiguous official statement is available . |
| 24 | The development of flexible endoscopy , which allows pancolonic biopsy , has supported this finding and has led to a change in practice such that in many centres at risk patients are examined at intervals , with colonoscopy and biopsy , to detect premalignant dysplasia or early cancer . |
| 25 | Aristotle had argued that the male semen gave ‘ form ’ to the ‘ matter ’ provided by the woman ; form here being a determining principle which shapes matter , such that in human beings the form is the rational soul , the particular characteristic which makes us human . |
| 26 | The advances in information technologies are now such that in most parts of the world the trend is towards monopolisation of both electronic and print media , and particularly , of the culture industry . |
| 27 | ‘ In fact , Jason reminds people of Ellery so much that in some parts of Yorkshire they refer to him as Black Pearl II . |
| 28 | This is a result of their field of interest not being in language as such but in cultural forms ( myths , literature , etc . ) . |
| 29 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 30 | Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives . |