Example sentences of "[subord] in [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It points to the way in which the cheaper discotheque has ousted live bands from many venues where in the mid and late 70s young musicians were able to gain experience and learn their trade . |
| 2 | The Cloud suggests that Mary gazed through the humanity of Christ and glimpsed his divinity , albeit in a veiled and incomplete form . |
| 3 | We can not understand each other , except in a rough and ready way ; we can not reveal ourselves , even when we want to ; what we call intimacy is only a makeshift ; perfect knowledge is an illusion . |
| 4 | In both therefore it is difficult to speak of political life or political problems except in a limited and rudimentary sense . |
| 5 | Except in the extreme and anomalous calm of the Sargasso Sea , big floating seaweeds would simply be broken to pieces . |
| 6 | Some emergency regulations restricting political meetings and propaganda were relaxed ( except in the northern and eastern provinces ) with effect from March 29 , so that campaigning could proceed for the May 11 local elections in seven provinces . |
| 7 | His ‘ Hamlet ’ , except in the vigorous and exciting duel scene at the end , lacks elegance , poetry and even a point of view . |
| 8 | Most building materials are porous to some extent , although in a well-designed and properly maintained building the absorbed moisture can evaporate harmlessly to the outside . |
| 9 | Some mutations , however , permit the fly to survive , although in an altered and normally less adaptive state . |
| 10 | The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan . |
| 11 | Compliance systems appear to be concerned with victims in some aggregate rather than in a discrete or specific sense while penalty systems must deal with victims in the concrete since they constitute an element in their system of proof . |
| 12 | Statistics suggest that you have 25 per cent more chance of having an accident in a black car than in a yellow or brown one . |
| 13 | If carried out with sensitivity rather than in a stiff and mechanical way , aromatherapy massage is a potent form of hands-on healing . |
| 14 | The command hierarchy in such an enterprise may be more clearly structured , and responsibilities better delimited , than in a smaller and more informal partnership . |
| 15 | It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context . |
| 16 | In the ‘ spatial division of labour ’ , the labour-intensive mass-production branch has a weaker role than in the 1960s and is partly replaced by TNC investment in the Third World . |
| 17 | Children are less competent at handling explanations in the deductive mode than in the empirical or intentional modes , yet deductive explanations are likely to be particularly important in educational contexts . |
| 18 | A green object is perceived as green because it is more reflective in the green region of the visible spectrum than in the blue or red regions . |
| 19 | The cliche is never more true than in the black and white morality of the technicolour red-blooded Western movie . |
| 20 | In the present study , the expression was used more frequently in the pooled with conditions than in the pooled and conditions , and thus corresponded to conditions in which plurals were less frequent . |
| 21 | Ozone depletion over the Arctic was believed to appear less severe than in the Antarctic because air currents in the northern hemisphere brought fresh supplies of ozone-rich air into the region , restoring ozone levels . |
| 22 | In Germany and the United States in particular , business borrowing was higher in the early seventies than in the early and mid-sixties . |
| 23 | The Vendor is not party in relation to the Business or subject to any contract , covenant , commitments or arrangement of an onerous , unusual or long-term nature or having any provision which might reasonably be regarded as material for disclosure to a purchaser for value of the Business nor is it party to any contract likely to be unprofitable or to any contract made otherwise than in the ordinary and usual course of business as now carried on . |
| 24 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |
| 25 | Thus we can see that verbal material is identified more accurately in the right hand field than in the left and that , in fact , dots are located and counted more accurately in the left hand field . |
| 26 | At the same time , and never more so than in the 1860s and 1870s , every secondary sexual characteristic was grotesquely overemphasised : men 's hair and beards , women 's hair , breasts , hips and buttocks , swelled to enormous size by means of false chignons , culs-de-Paris , etc . |
| 27 | And where better to settle than in the richest and nearest capitalist paradise ? |
| 28 | You could n't be more ideally placed for an action-packed holiday this Summer than in the smart and lively Copacabana hotel . |
| 29 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 30 | The United States and Canada did experience more industrial unrest in the early seventies than in the fifties and sixties , and money wages rose faster . |