Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of language learning , positive feedback could be evidence that one 's efforts at mastering a language are not in vain and that progress towards one 's goal is being made ; it could be simply a correct response in the language laboratory or praise from the teacher . |
| 2 | There were 448 players registered with the Football League in 1891 but this figure rose to around 5,000 by the Edwardian period . |
| 3 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 4 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 5 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 6 | Shamir said that he regretted the US decision , but that Israel could not , under any circumstances , " go along with the principle that Jews have no right to live in this or that part of Greater Israel " . |
| 7 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 8 | Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment . |
| 9 | We ask the question : what does it mean to be a Christian in this or that kind of society ? |
| 10 | One could go on with provisos of this kind , or with hints as to procedure in this or that case , for pages . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 12 | I repeat : what I have said here might well be qualified by one or another scholar in this or that regard . |
| 13 | ( a ) a bankruptcy order or its equivalent is made against the RFL whether in this or another jurisdiction ; or |
| 14 | After an unproductive trip to the Karakoram in 1985 and some time off , Sustad joined Scott again in 1987 on an expedition to the North-East ridge of Everest , bedevilled by snowstorms . |
| 15 | What action is the Department taking to seek compensation and redress so that the overshipments in 1991 and this year are stopped forthwith ? |
| 16 | The contract was signed in 1924 and this year is the 60th anniversary of its opening in 1932 . |
| 17 | Tom Longland was relieved of his duties as commander of 3 Brigade of the Parachute Regiment , — the first time since the deployment of troops in Northern Ireland in 1969 that such action had been taken . |
| 18 | Barbara Hardy already takes the view in 1975 that some amendment to practical modes of teaching is needed given that many students find no affinity with the Leavisian critical stance , nor " share the faith in Englishness and European civilisation " . |
| 19 | Despite his energy and ability , it was unlikely in 1922 that this son of the dispossessed would be accepted at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 20 | The Coalfield Communities Campaign , which represented seventy-nine local authorities in current and former mining areas , was even more specific . |
| 21 | The men of Leicestershire gave the king £100 to have yet another perambulation : he finally conceded in 1235 that that county should be put out of the forest with the exception of the manor of Withcote , which was ancient demesne of the Crown . |
| 22 | Our Canadian business , which underwent an organisational restructuring the previous year , was able to benefit in 1992 and both drystone and coated tonnages were significantly higher enabling the business to offset price weakness in the marketplace and exceed its budget . |
| 23 | It was a time of physical and social constraints also , when more arduous duties and responsibilities had to be fulfilled in less and less time . |
| 24 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 25 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 26 | The elemental functions of intersection are thus reflected up as internal functions of space at the next level , with the result that the required characteristics of the system are specified in more and more detail as the assembly is decomposed into its constituent elements ( see Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 27 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 28 | The ‘ relative income ’ hypothesis was proposed by the American economist J.S. Duesenberry in 1949 and this theory can also be used to explain the apparent conflict in income-consumption data . |
| 29 | A sort of Liberal party Man Friday , the region 's most widely travelled and most durable candidate twice fought Darlington in 1974 , contested Middlesbrough in 1979 , Jarrow in 1987 and this time tackles Easington . |
| 30 | A certain degree of unevenness is acceptable in nomadic and some village items . |