Example sentences of "[subord] in [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 2 | Similar changes are simultaneously occurring in a large number of advanced societies ( Challis , 1992b ; Kraan et al. , 1991 ) , albeit in slightly different ways for different client groups , Of course this simple conception of change requires further elaboration . |
| 3 | These idealised sentences often turn out to be based , in fact , on the conventions of written language in the academic sub-culture and these linguists could be seen to be perpetuating , albeit in more sophisticated terms , the older , ideological conception of writing as the model for speech . |
| 4 | Consequently , Alexander followed the usual route , albeit in very dangerous circumstances . |
| 5 | This finding , albeit in very small numbers , would seem to suggest that reduced prostacyclin production may not have a role in the development of microvascular disease . |
| 6 | Adam 's Breed and The Well of Loneliness won her international fame , albeit in very different ways . |
| 7 | In his preface to the book , written at the close of 1871 , he signified , albeit in flamboyantly veiled language , that this essay was indeed the effective starting point . |
| 8 | As I have elaborated elsewhere , the early agricultural divine monarchies seem to recapitulate , albeit in purely cultural forms , the natural conditions of that primeval existence : for instance , an economy based on grains ( domesticated rather than wild ) , a social structure centred around one dominant , tyrannous male and his harem ( now a human state rather than a primate group ) , and — at least in the case of some ancient Egyptian dynasties — even the recruitment of apprentice heirs-apparent ( the institution known as coregency ) . |
| 9 | The difference between the old Keynesian and the new Keynesian approaches arises from the latter 's retention , albeit in radically modified form , of the notion of an equilibrium unemployment rate , and the former 's wholesale rejection of the usefulness of the NAIRU concept . |
| 10 | During the Renaissance , for example , it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form . |
| 11 | Looks like there could be an antitrust action against Microsoft Corp whether or not the US Federal Trade Commission , still plodding along with its investigation of the company albeit in ever widening circles , decides to take Bill Gates to court . |
| 12 | Women , she argued , should practise not crying except in exceptionally worthy circumstances . |
| 13 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 14 | Unless preference shareholders are expressly granted participating rights they are unlikely to be entitled to share in any way in the ‘ equity ’ or to have voting rights except in narrowly prescribed circumstances . |
| 15 | The actual state of the economy should not , except in quite exceptional circumstances , induce the government to depart from its announced strategy , its x per cent rule . |
| 16 | Except in genuinely traditional societies reacting against the initial impact of modernity , fundamentalism appears to be , universally , a minority phenomenon . |
| 17 | He advises those less trammelled by convention than himself to adopt the use of key signatures for both horns and trumpets , except in obviously atonal music . |
| 18 | An extensive debate about the fidelity of copying DNA sequences by Taq polymerase has been published , but this is not usually an issue except in highly specialised applications , such as the study of variant clinical isolates of HIV . |
| 19 | As a senior Home Office official put it to an RCM conference in October 1942 : ‘ A refugee should have treatment comparable to that of an average English child in receipt of free education ’ , adding , ‘ It is not possible to provide continued education except in highly exceptional cases of brilliancy . ’ |
| 20 | He justifies this by proving mathematically that , except in highly abnormal viewing conditions , three views of a rigid object can uniquely determine its shape and motion . |
| 21 | However , when the October 1987 observation is removed , this conclusion is reversed , which suggests that , except in highly volatile periods , the no-arbitrage model is preferable . |
| 22 | Electricity is usually available , except in extremely remote areas . |
| 23 | Once your case is concluded you can not , except in very rare instances , return to seek further compensation . |
| 24 | More positively , it is the recognition that all people should have the right to live within the community — to contribute to it and benefit from it , and simply to be a part of it , except in very rare circumstances . |
| 25 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 26 | ‘ Rules ’ , except in very general terms , are difficult to define because the issues will be different according to : |
| 27 | Reports suggest that colonoscopy fails to reach the caecum in 17 to 45% of cases except in very experienced hands . |
| 28 | I ask nobody to work seven days a week or twelve hours a day , except in very limited periods when we all have to . |
| 29 | The court at first instance can always distinguish except in very similar cases , and appeal is not easy unless a judgment is so unreasonable as to be perverse . |
| 30 | Except in very specific cases Sidonius 's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption . |