Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be admitted , too , that sceptical Allan , who resists Ayesha 's sexual dominance except in one brief moment , gives us a far less exalted and unreal portrait of her and a more active , interesting view of her circumstances than the sententious scholar Holly did . |
| 2 | The details of this framework need not concern us here , except in one important respect . |
| 3 | He was fairly predictable except in one important respect . |
| 4 | If a male mouse has only one t gene it will be a normal , healthy mouse except in one remarkable respect . |
| 5 | The Protestant ethic was observed by most people in Myddle except in one startling way ; many ruined themselves and their families by excessive drinking . |
| 6 | I was particularly taken by a good phrase used by the hon. Member for Hartlepool , who suggested that we should stop using the word ’ joyriding ’ — none of us in the House does so any longer , except in unspoken inverted commas . |
| 7 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 8 | A married man 's pall was expected to be supported by his married friends ; if single then bachelor colleagues would perform the duty ; likewise for spinsters — but not so for children ( except in certain rural areas ) , married women or widows , when the responsibility was delegated either to adult male relatives of the deceased or the undertaker 's own men . |
| 9 | These are a practical necessity and it would be quite impossible to meet the present demand for meat and dairy products , except in certain rural areas , from the products of traditional farms that were the order of the day in Europe and North America up until the Second World War : |
| 10 | Several thousand prisoners were released in July after the Ministry of Justice announced a one-third remission of sentence for all prisoners except in certain limited categories . |
| 11 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
| 12 | The information that the hon. Gentleman has , has not been confirmed to me , except in certain minor respects , but it is a serious issue with which we continue to deal . |
| 13 | If the prior mortgage was made expressly to secure a current account or other further advances , and further advances are made by the prior mortgagee , he can hold the land as security for both the original loan and the further advances , unless he had notice of a subsequent mortgage — registration ( except in certain special cases ) is not equivalent to notice . |
| 14 | Although individual schools reported some degree of increased activity in this area , facilitated by extra staff , it was clear that except in certain well-known cases , home-school links was not a PNP priority . |
| 15 | Except in modern timber-framed houses , the walls will neither be flat , nor truly vertical , the corners will not be exactly square , and the distance between the floor and ceiling or the two side walls will not be constant . |
| 16 | Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Since they are hard to find , except in odd little shops that specialise in big underpants and sheepskin slippers for old people , they cost a pretty penny . |
| 18 | Except in most Western Hemisphere and in some other countries , the mortality of first born infants uniformly exceeds that of births up to the 4–6 orders , and in the majority of countries , the pattern is one of declining infant mortality from first through second and third order births . |
| 19 | I am not convinced that special circumstances apply in this case which override the which is advice given very clearly in the P P G Twelve , that , in general , late objections should not be entertained except in most exceptional circumstances . |
| 20 | Generally , though , large fish may not improve all that much , except in further impressive growth , but nor will they regress . |
| 21 | By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God . |
| 22 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 23 | Surface cultivation is rare , except in some lower lying valleys so the changes have subtle origins . |
| 24 | The entire country is served by a dense network of surfaced roads and nowhere , except in some mountainous areas in Scotland , is more than 5 or 10 km from a road . |
| 25 | No , they 're not going to be better , except in those isolated cases where the service provision has been produced . |
| 26 | North Warehouse , the oldest in Gloucester Docks , although in poor structural condition , was the first to be saved from demolition and redeveloped as the new headquarters for Gloucester City Council . |
| 27 | Although in each one Ayesha is engaged in military as well as emotional conflicts , the sequence of events is suspended on endless dialogue as Ayesha defines or defends her amorphous philosophy . |
| 28 | In the RUC the former is known as community relations and the latter neighbourhood policing although in many other forces both go under the rubric of community policing . |
| 29 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 30 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |