Example sentences of "in [adj] and [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What action is the Department taking to seek compensation and redress so that the overshipments in 1991 and this year are stopped forthwith ? |
| 5 | The contract was signed in 1924 and this year is the 60th anniversary of its opening in 1932 . |
| 6 | The Coalfield Communities Campaign , which represented seventy-nine local authorities in current and former mining areas , was even more specific . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A certain degree of unevenness is acceptable in nomadic and some village items . |
| 14 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 15 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 16 | According to the founding minutes of 20 November 1804 , its principal design … . ’ should be to collect and preserve whatever may relate to the natural , civil or ecclesiastical History of the United States in general and this state in particular ’ . |
| 17 | Pascoe sighed at the arrogance of youth in general and this youth in particular . |
| 18 | The tragedy is that the Government have stood idly by and done little to prevent youth crime in general and this aspect of youth crime in particular . |
| 19 | He held the Chair of Botany at Cambridge for thirty years , although he ceased lecturing in 1735 and that University 's Botanic Garden was not established until 1762 ( see Chapter 17 ) . |
| 20 | It is owned by the partners in common and each partner ( except a limited partner ) is liable for the debts of the firm . |
| 21 | Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics . |
| 22 | The government predicted that the current-account deficit would fall from A$20,700 million in 1989-90 to A$18,000 million in 1990-91 and that inflation would fall from an annual rate of 7.7 per cent to 6 per cent . |
| 23 | ‘ One can only speculate what would have happened had this not been done but I seriously doubt if we would be meeting here today had not the capital infusion been made in 1990 and this plan put into place and well executed . |