Example sentences of "in [det] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 2 | The sites investigated by Prof. Iain Thornton of Imperial College in London showed very high concentration of metals , in some cases more than 1 per cent of the total soil . |
| 3 | However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education . |
| 4 | Only a few years after claiming that there were no known substitutes , the companies are discovering a wide range of alternatives — including soap and water — which are not only cheaper but in some cases better than CFCs . |
| 5 | One study , focused on Leicester , showed that in some areas more than 90 per cent of ponds had been drained . |
| 6 | And they 've performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 7 | And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 8 | I read in a paper that in some states more than 50 per cent of subscribers are now ex-directory . |
| 9 | There is a very high incidence of alcoholism in families where incest occurs but it also appears that child molestation occurs in several generations in some families even when there is no other obvious sign of addictive disease . |
| 10 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 11 | As we 've in fact transferred to oil , those coal heaps in many cases have actually been cleaned up and build on , so as oil runs out it perhaps will not be possible to reconvert back to coal use in some factories simply because the space for storage wo n't exist . |
| 12 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 13 | Cruder , and yet in some ways better than ours . |
| 14 | He recognised that doctors were taking decisions every day to limit treatment in futile cases but , equally , some doctors were continuing to treat patients in such circumstances partly because of doubts about their legal position . |
| 15 | It is a mere auxiliary verb , a syntactical instrument enabling us to specify what philosophers sometimes used to call the " essence " or " quiddity " of a thing ; the verb esse , to be , acting in such cases literally as a pointer towards essentia . |
| 16 | It is possible that juries would prefer to convict of murder in such cases so as to register their abhorrence of the defendant 's activities in general . |
| 17 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 18 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 19 | However , if the defendant were prosecuted and the defence conceded lack of consent , the defendant would certainly be acquitted in these circumstances even if the law required his belief in consent to be both honest and reasonable . |
| 20 | Clearly , the dilemma of ‘ multiple mysteries , ’ which Sidney Holt addressed in these pages more than three years ago , remains unsolved ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1988 , p554–5 ) . |
| 21 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , the song ‘ Sweet Freedom ’ is perhaps his best known ditty in these climes even though he has released tons of songs for the consumption of the masses . |
| 23 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 24 | National rivalries were all the more intense and confused in these districts precisely because it was often not possible to tell who was which nationality , or where a person 's loyalties lay . |
| 25 | Researchers and observers have repeatedly suggested that , on the whole , it is in these variables rather than in the break itself that the seeds of disturbance in the child lie . |
| 26 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 27 | Stimulate the hydra at any point on its body and a wave of excitation runs from that point in all directions so as eventually to involve every part of the nerve net . |
| 28 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 29 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 30 | That 's why the apostle could say , we do n't have a high priest , who 's not touched with the feelings of our infirmities , he 's been there before it , he was tempting in all points like as we are , yet he was without sin . |