Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 2 | Any conversation there was was snatched in odd moments of repose . |
| 3 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 4 | [ … ] Socialization within the family is manifested in subtle cues of things said and things not said , of facial expressions and gestures which arise in the course of day-to-day living within the same dwelling . |
| 5 | Pain , the principal symptom , was controlled in surviving patients with analgesics alone . |
| 6 | What do you do , sort of buy them in fifty packs at Sainsburys ? |
| 7 | Roads that carried any considerable amount of through-traffic had to be wide enough , and could be wide enough in unenclosed country , to allow of detours around the impassable stretches that developed in unsurfaced roads by mid-winter . |
| 8 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 9 | In his letter of resignation ( published in Iranian newspapers on July 18 ) Khatami said that the " stubborness and lawlessness " of some of the country 's senior clergymen and " leftist revolutionaries " were potentially harmful to the revolution and true Islamic values . |
| 10 | The young boy quickly became an authority on who received and dealt in stolen goods in London , who specialized in watches , clothes , foreign money , rings . |
| 11 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 12 | It is understood police arrested ten men in swoops in loyalist areas on Thursday morning in connection with investigations into the Hughes murder and other killings in North and West Belfast . |
| 13 | WEST Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron has called on the security forces to step up their patrols in loyalist areas of Belfast in a bid to halt sectarian killings . |
| 14 | This latter possibility had been uppermost in loyalist minds since January of the previous year when O'Neill had broken with all previous precedent and invited Sean Lemass to Stormont . |
| 15 | The " right of return " issue had arisen in controversial circumstances on May 12 when US State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler responded to a reporter 's question by stating that the Bush administration continued to support Resolution 194 . |
| 16 | Forfaiting involves a contract between the exporter and the forfaiter [ probably a subsidiary of a major bank ] to purchase accepted bills at an agreed discount at future dates , in normal circumstances without recourse to the exporter . |
| 17 | Active citizenship requires an opportunity to participate in normal patterns of life , to overcome unemployment , poverty , homelessness , create equal education and equal opportunities , and strengthen social and political rights which have been under attack . |
| 18 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 19 | We also confirm in our patients the previous observations made in normal subjects by Green et al , concerning the evolution of endocrine cell densities with age . |
| 20 | Numerous empirical studies have suggested that both m and LP are invariant with respect to alterations in normal levels of output and employment . |
| 21 | In this study , the glutamate/GABA ratio is raised in the epileptogenic hippocampus , particularly in the postseizure period when glutamate remains high as the GABA concentration returns to normal , which may cause the hippocampal damage characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy , since a similar pattern is produced in normal animals by stimulation of excitatory input to the hippocampus . |
| 22 | The Gulf crisis strongly affected business confidence with a serious downturn in the financial sector ; commercial and offshore banks registered a 14.6 per cent drop in total deposits in August . |
| 23 | The February index shows the increase in total earnings at management level down from an annual rate of 8.3 p.c. in December to 7 p.c. , from 7 p.c. to 5.6 p.c. at clerical level and from 7.4 p.c. to 6.8 p.c. among operatives . |
| 24 | SALT , for example , gave the Soviets an advantage in the number of ICBM 's ( even if the US maintained predominance in total numbers of warheads ) ; grain sales to Russia helped Brezhnev solve his agricultural problems but upset US markets ; Jewish emigration from the USSR increased but not enough to please the critics so that the US Congress ( under the Jackson-Vanik amendment ) decided to tie economic deals with Russia to greater Jewish emigration . |
| 25 | A randomised trial of children in South Australia who were prone to recurrent respiratory infections showed a reduction in respiratory events for those taking vitamin A , but not a reduction in total days of illness . |
| 26 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 27 | We conclude that the mechanism will be effective in low-viscosity basic and intermediate magmas and can occur in basaltic magmas for crystals of diameter 1mm . |
| 28 | We provide a full sailing programme with rescue cover at least six hours a day ; we do n't allow sailing in strong winds without rescue cover , so if level 5 sailors ( can carve gybe ) wish to sail outside normal hours they must arrange alternative rescue cover . |
| 29 | And only if such change occurs , and local government is organized in strong units with power to take major decisions , will present trends towards centralization be reversed , and local democracy secure its place as a major part of our democratic system . |
| 30 | Anne , having moved away from Elizabeth Woodville and her family , had meanwhile been conversing in low tones with Joan . |