Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ It is that sort of tradition I shall be seeking to foster , albeit in lower percentage terms , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 4 | DEC made no mention of the Unix SVR4 tie-up in the US ( except in pre-launch analyst briefings ) , though Peter Miller , director of Alpha AXP business for DEC Europe , admitted all options were being considered . |
| 5 | Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water , except in severe winter weather . |
| 6 | Although in much television advertising there is n't much to say , it is still important to be able to write . |
| 7 | Others have muddled through without a policy , although in that situation choices are still forced willy-nilly upon those who select materials . |
| 8 | In the face of such opposition officials were unable to insist that children should receive full treatment , although in 1908 education authorities were advised to provide it where possible . |
| 9 | The age range of patients in a surgical ward can be wide , although in most hospital wards are provided for children . |
| 10 | Although in some subject areas there were complaints that proposals from the colleges were too ‘ traditional ’ ( and a belief by some colleges that this was the best way to ensure success with the ‘ traditional ’ members of subject boards ) , there were developments unrelated to specific subjects that were new and — in validation terms — difficult . |
| 11 | Although in this case Mr Benn had backed off from them in the beginning . |
| 12 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 13 | This interpretation is strengthened by a recent study by Fisher ( 1992 ) who also found poor recall for previous road signs although in this study drivers were not required to stop since the experimenter was posing as a hitch-hiker . |
| 14 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 15 | ‘ Unemployment is rising faster in Darlington than in many development areas , ’ he said , ‘ It is absurd Darlington should be treated as a second-class area when its unemployment is rising faster . ’ |
| 16 | On the contrary , many in the popular movement believe that Fatah has more interest , as one activist put it , in hospitals than in mobile health clinics , in bureaucracy than in local control , and in co-operation with the economic and political notables than with grass-roots movements . |
| 17 | The archivists are more concerned with the processes of acquiring and documenting data than in preserving computer systems . |
| 18 | More engineering has to be built into these units than in lower temperature ones to enable them to withstand the higher temperature . |
| 19 | It was clear from a very early stage of our Belfast work that to describe the inner-city phonology was a more complicated task than to describe ‘ middle-class ’ phonology , because there appeared to be much more variability within inner-city language than in higher status language . |
| 20 | It stresses that " it is often cheaper to invest in energy conservation than in additional energy supply " . |
| 21 | The average knowledge of foreign languages in Britain is lower than in other member states . |
| 22 | It seems equally likely that , even without adopting the Scandinavian scheme involving a different scale of penalties for marital rape , sentencing in such cases would tend to be more lenient than in other rape cases . |
| 23 | It had its own permanent staff ; hence user — staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups . |
| 24 | The impact of Iraq 's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait was less in Oman than in other Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) states . |
| 25 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 26 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 27 | It also mentions particularly damaging polluters , such as the Belchatow power station which has blighted the surrounding area with emissions of gases 20 times higher than in other danger areas . |
| 28 | However , the British population is highly mobile ( nearly 10 per cent move house in any year ) , and so political changes in some constituencies may reflect changes in the resident population rather than in individual voting habits . |
| 29 | Therefore my clients would much rather deal with this at a strategic level than in individual district plans . |
| 30 | There were less in Salt Lake than in most ghost cities , because of the lack of water . |