Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in rather chilly summers they eat less , so plants can get out of hand . |
| 2 | But she 's already in so bloody pain you know , like sick . |
| 3 | Within a year , however , the latter had returned to Gaul , and in somewhat mysterious circumstances he became bishop of Clermont in 471 . |
| 4 | Even if relative initial differences in intentionally productive success they have the groundwork for different male and female receptive strategies . |
| 5 | In utterly mundane terms it means getting polluters to do what they want them to do . |
| 6 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 7 | In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug . |
| 8 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 9 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | In more recent years he has shown how he despises the movie industry by making only rare fleeting appearances . |
| 11 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 12 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 13 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 14 | They may also be used in pressurized rural areas as a strategy for concentrating growth in order to relieve congestion in other villages , while in more remote regions they may be used to ‘ intercept ’ or reduce out-migration . |
| 15 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 16 | In more peaceful times he had assisted many of the ladies of the cantonment in childbirth . |
| 17 | Confidence limits of 95 per cent and 99 per cent are conventionally used in most statistical calculations in social research , not only in descriptive studies of the kind we are presently discussing , but also in more analytic ones we shall be considering later in the chapter . |
| 18 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |
| 19 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 20 | There are instances of change in diet related to habitat : tawny owls living in wooded areas eat more moles and fewer birds , whereas in more open areas they eat more voles and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 21 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 22 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 23 | In the widest context , god is single and indivisible ; in more parochial settings he appears in more familiar and less diffuse forms . |
| 24 | Political and financial considerations were probably responsible for keeping the Staple at Calais ; in strictly economic terms it might have been more advantageous if it had been moved closer to the rising Dutch cloth towns . |
| 25 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 26 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 27 | On the other hand , just as he defended the use of Article 100 , George Close also defended the use of Article 235 on the same grounds , i.e. that even in purely economic terms it can be shown that environmental and consumer legislation does in fact affect production and marketing costs . |
| 28 | Even in purely political terms it never seems to have occurred to Polybius and Posidonius that the command of a foreign language meant power to the Romans . |
| 29 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 30 | However , even in nominally constant-density flows it may be possible to introduce density differences which are large enough to allow the use of one of these techniques whilst keeping the internal Froude number high enough for the flow to be unaffected . |