Example sentences of "in [adj] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We ask the question : what does it mean to be a Christian in this or that kind of society ? |
| 9 | One could go on with provisos of this kind , or with hints as to procedure in this or that case , for pages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I repeat : what I have said here might well be qualified by one or another scholar in this or that regard . |
| 12 | ( a ) a bankruptcy order or its equivalent is made against the RFL whether in this or another jurisdiction ; or |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What action is the Department taking to seek compensation and redress so that the overshipments in 1991 and this year are stopped forthwith ? |
| 15 | The contract was signed in 1924 and this year is the 60th anniversary of its opening in 1932 . |
| 16 | The Coalfield Communities Campaign , which represented seventy-nine local authorities in current and former mining areas , was even more specific . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A certain degree of unevenness is acceptable in nomadic and some village items . |
| 26 | It can soldier on , living from day to day in the hope that it can attract support from MPs in one or another minority party — there are likely to be at least 50 such members — for each piece of legislation . |
| 27 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 28 | Daily , repeated exposure might not become apparent until years later , in one or another form of damage to the nervous system . |
| 29 | The project will prepare the conceptual and methodological basis for a longer-term enquiry into such issues and test it in one or more pilot studies . |
| 30 | We telephoned all patients who stated that actual or possible inflammatory bowel disease was present in one or more family members and obtained the names and dates of birth of the affected family members . |