Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | finally , local councils were to be formed for each former borough , urban district or parish council area in the new unitary authorities , and where wanted in the metropolitan areas . |
| 2 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 3 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 4 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 5 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 6 | Well , we want to obviously make er people aware er both of their chest , I mean we 're coming in to the autumn , the winter period when er people who have er a residual chest problem will suffer far more , than say in the warmer , dryer and summer months . |
| 7 | Likewise , the lives of other soldier-heroes of the period , the Black Prince , du Guesclin , even that of Henry V , although written in the chivalric vein , stress that these men were successful largely because their inherent qualities of leadership had benefited from training and experience . |
| 8 | Perhaps one of the best autobiographies ( although written in the third person ) is Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , followed by her later ( and not , in my opinion , as good ) Still Glides the Stream ( 1948 ) . |
| 9 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 10 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 11 | Although rooted in the positivist tradition ( especially in the case of Hirschi ) , control theories also owe a clear and acknowledged debt to the classical tradition . |
| 12 | Korea extends for approximately 600 miles ( 965 km ) from the north-east to the south-west and is about 150 miles ( 240 km ) wide , although narrowing in the northern part of the peninsula to less than 100 miles ( 160 km ) . |
| 13 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 14 | In absolute terms , there were three extra households for every extra member of the population over this period , generating a very much higher level of new housing need than reflected in the overall population figures . |
| 15 | Although born in the very purple of Whiggery , he displayed independence of judgement , and , in spite of his personal admiration for W. E. Gladstone ( tempered by a certain irreverence ) , he attached himself to the radical section of the Liberal Party . |
| 16 | Although based in the informal sector , they used some modern sector facilities such as newspapers to advertise their work and because of lower costs were able to compete successfully with large furniture manufacturers . |
| 17 | The scheme he described to the Committee was visionary , in the sense that many of his suggestions have actually been carried out , although lacking in the architectural unity that he intended . |
| 18 | Willis ( 1983 ) found that black males aged between 16 and 24 were stopped ten times more than average ( although prosecuted in the same proportion as white juveniles ) . |
| 19 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 20 | Fortunately rather than staying in the main house , she was able to stay with her sister Jane and husband Robert who , as he was a member of the royal Household , enjoyed a grace and favour cottage on the estate . |
| 21 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |
| 22 | The oppression of Black communities which justifies policy intervention but barely touches on policy implementation may be mirrored rather than challenged in the nebulous realm of academic research . |
| 23 | Thus the points made in the sentence quoted by Price are more than underlined in the final text . |
| 24 | Detailed geochemical profiling of the lava sequences has revealed a complex history of eruption from magma chambers which , although linked in the same geotectonic setting , had individual development paths within the crust . |
| 25 | Although numbered in the same series as the original cars , this batch in fact belonged to the B.E.T . |
| 26 | Nor was there a satisfactory body of analysis on matters of this kind : too many of the scholars concerned had preferred to write works that were ‘ reminiscent at times of complimentary toasts ’ rather than engage in the difficult task of examining the complex nature of nationality relations in real life . |
| 27 | Unfortunately although printed in the correct order . |
| 28 | Despite the extensive decline , it is possible that more Redshanks still nest in Sussex today than did in the 19th century . |
| 29 | Employment was more easily lost than obtained in the eighteenth century , for supervisors with power of removal over their subordinates rarely had much inclination to investigate the accuracy of an accusation against one of their officers , if that charge was brought with the support of a man of political influence who might harm his own career if thwarted . |
| 30 | Although published in the eighteenth century , the idea was by no means new . |