Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canoeists and surfers waited in the deceptively calm waters of the Severn for the big wave to arrive . |
| 2 | The aim of the directive on " civil liability for damage caused by waste " , which is still at an early stage of discussion , is to force banks to take greater interest in the environmentally damaging activities of their business customers . |
| 3 | in science and technical subjects , in the rather spartan buildings of the school ( all Chinese educational buildings are very spartan by our standards ) . |
| 4 | This phenomenon can be seen in the rather similar clown-scenes in Titus Andronicus and Antony and Cleopatra , on which Jonas Barish has commented , as in the comedies in general . |
| 5 | The reasons why so many seek futures in sports , and in rather specific areas of sport , do not lie in the rather obscure realms of anatomy , physiology or psychology . |
| 6 | This is an appeal by a father , ex parte in the rather unusual circumstances of this case , from the refusal of Judge Galpin in the Portsmouth County Court on 18 March 1992 , only a few days ago , to make a residence order or a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order on an ex parte application made the day before by a father in connection with a snatch , and a potential snatch of the rest of the children of the family . |
| 7 | In the ten Ives songs which he provides as fill-up he deftly avoids the obvious pitfalls in writing which is only parodistic in part , whether in the overtly sentimental fragments or the rousing songs like The Circus Band and the patriotic First World War song , He is there ! . |
| 8 | In the superficially simpler terms of plate tectonics , these are the repeated effects of plates splitting and coming together . |
| 9 | As with the median smoothing , the residuals in the seemingly atypical months are large , but the sharp contrast between the typical and atypical months has been lost . |
| 10 | France also saw a large increase in public spending and taxation in the nearly two decades from 1971 , as did Italy from a lower base . |
| 11 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 12 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 13 | Turkey 's Koi privatisation body says its remaining 22% stake in the partly privatised telecommunications equipment company Netas , 51% owned by Northern Telecom Ltd , will be underwritten and sold to foreign institutional investors : the decision follows low investor demand for a 20% public offer in Netas this month when only about 7% was sold . |
| 14 | There were so many wax candles you would think it was daylight and the flames dazzled the gold and silver plate stacked high in the ornately carved cupboards . |
| 15 | This is really not satisfactory , particularly as substantial and reasonable doubts surround the costs that the board will incur after the fuel has left the reactor , especially in the commercially untried areas of oxide-fuel reprocessing and waste management . |
| 16 | Although the recently announced European Air Traffic Control information system may facilitate the movement of aircraft across national boundaries , it can not create more airspace in the already crowded skies over southern England . |
| 17 | ‘ I assume you 're using the word ‘ nice ’ in the true sense of ‘ neat ’ , as in the neatly ruthless deals I 'm sure he 's notorious for clinching , or the neat asset-stripping technique which I dare say he 's renowned for ? ’ |
| 18 | Expanded later into a more humane and flexible pattern the system presupposed a heavy concentration on individual study using a wide variety of self-instructional materials : and developments in audio-visual education and in the theoretical base of educational technology make this somewhat more feasible than in the heavily print-based Shores model mark I. The object was not to abolish the teacher , but to re-examine what his proper role might now be . |
| 19 | The volkist spirit , matrix of the future Nazism , is detectable in the heavily Teutonic exteriors of Karlsruhe ( 1913 ) , Oldenburg ( 1915 ) , and Stuttgart ( begun in 1911 , completed in 1928 ) . |
| 20 | Employees have been able to take a direct stake in the newly privatised companies . |
| 21 | Although well known in Spain , Gordillo this month holds his first show in the United States in the newly revamped quarters of the Marlborough Gallery . |
| 22 | Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families . |
| 23 | The know-how funds , for example , are widely appreciated in the newly emerging countries in eastern Europe . |
| 24 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 25 | The coincidence of the decolonization process with the development of Cold War antagonism ensured , however , that the immediate impact was experienced primarily in terms of superpower competition for influence in the newly independent states . |
| 26 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 27 | The newly liberated areas from the Japane er in the newly liberated areas from the Japanese the sit situation was more explosive . |
| 28 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 29 | Er are you happy with this idea that , that sort of the immediate future in the newly liberated areas is , is just rent reduction , interest rate reduction , consolidate that and then move on ? |
| 30 | Once land reform was under way , the peasant support of the C C P regime was more secure , the C C P implemented a second stage of its tax programme in the newly liberated areas . |