Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of a satiating meal on the serum and urinary concentrations of procolipase propeptide ( ala-Pro-Gly-Pro-Arg , APGPR ) immunoreactivity , as measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) specific for free APGPR , has been studied in normal and morbidly obese human subjects . |
| 2 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 3 | Not that ‘ feeders do not tempt big barbel , but they are extremely cumbersome objects to have on the line when playing these powerful fish in weedy or otherwise snaggy areas . |
| 4 | The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry or nearly dry specimens . |
| 5 | This contrasts with projects done in junior or earlier secondary classes where it is more usual for a group of pupils or even a whole class to participate , often sharing the work between them , pooling the results and producing a joint account . |
| 6 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 7 | In fact , the proposals for community care received very little media attention throughout the bill 's passage through the Houses of Parliament because other parts of the bill , those which proposed a new organizational structure for the general hospital and community services , represented the most fundamental change to the NHS since its inception in 1948 and therefore deflected attention away from the community care proposals . |
| 8 | True , there have been revolutions in the name of socialism and communism , but these have never been in highly industrialised but in agricultural and industrially backward countries like Russia , China and Cuba . |
| 9 | Not sorted out , decided and convinced but curious and open in strange and often wondrous times . |
| 10 | A detailed statement of the claim is still required but in simpler and less formal terms . |
| 11 | Taverner 's dense polyphony often flows in florid and rhythmically subtle lines in the tradition of the masters of the Eton Choirbook and his imitational practice is , if anything , nearer to Ockeghem 's than to Gombert 's or Clemens non Papa 's . |
| 12 | Half a million foreign tourists visited the USSR in 1950 , but over two million did so in 1971 and over five million did so in the late 1980s . |
| 13 | State the cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions in that and earlier financial years which has been written off . |
| 14 | Crystals , of course , consist of sheets or planes of atoms , which to an electron-sized observer would seem to lie , piled upon one another , in awful and endlessly regular array , virtually for ever , like the pages of some enormous celestial book . |
| 15 | This is particularly necessary in innovative or highly specialised subject areas . |
| 16 | At -30°C up to 90% of their body water became ice , which formed mainly in intercellular spaces , resulting in high but apparently non-lethal concentrations of solutes within the cells . |
| 17 | This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault . |
| 18 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 19 | Some of the highest property prices anywhere are in fume-ridden Manhattan and in cleaner but nevertheless congested central Tokyo . |
| 20 | Gordon Richards , champion jockey twenty-six times between 1925 and 1952 , surpassed Fred Archer 's annual record of 246 winners set in 1885 with 259 in 1933 and then 269 in 1947 . |
| 21 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Children react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 23 | children can react in different and sometimes unexpected ways . |
| 24 | Its contents may be verified by reference to the works quoted in the bibliography , especially those of Kinsey and his collaborators and by Masters and Johnson in the United States ( although stemming from studies in another and slightly different culture they hold much validity for Britain also ) and by Chatham , Eysenck , Felstein and Gorer in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | But what truth there is in the suggestion can be put in another and less misleading way . |
| 26 | Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity . |
| 27 | The increasing number of mortgage repossessions , the increasing interest costs to the UK manufacturing sector , the distortion of the foreign exchange market , the wage demands induced as workers seek to maintain their living standards and the large , gratuitous redistribution of income from debtors to creditors result in painful and often irreversible dislocations . |
| 28 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 29 | Er in actual fa in actual fact not so not so well in that er there are there are negative benefits er as you 'll see in some and less negative on the blue route . |
| 30 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |