Example sentences of "in [adv] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , there were never the trained navigators nor Royal Engineer specialists available to recruit this number , and in all some 11 teams were trained .
2 Three committee members drove from Geneva to be present and in all some 17 Members and Friends of the Swiss Branch gathered at Sussexdown in the late morning of 1 August .
3 Even in less that perfect vintages , a good winemaker can produce something drinkable , and the average quality of English wine has improved dramatically in the last decade .
4 With the next World Cup due to be held in less that three years time the Wallaby coach and skipper warn that
5 his join up in so many varied ways
6 It was trying to love myself , the starting point of it all , that seemed to lead me in so many strange directions .
7 The prisons do not appear to be full to overflowing as in so many European countries .
8 Pearce has found that his involvement in so many outside bodies has helped to broaden his knowledge and outlook .
9 At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia .
10 This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it .
11 Without putting down the West Coast loonies in so many specific words , Hoffman seemed to be putting them on with his canny deadpan expressions .
12 A big THANK YOU to those teachers who have worked so very hard in so many various ways to encourage this scheme and above all a big THANK YOU to our class members who after all are the backbone of our Society ; it would be impossible to raise money without their help .
13 Unleaded petrol As in so many environmental matters , Britain was late in introducing tax differentials for unleaded fuel .
14 It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance .
15 As in so many other areas , it 's a mistake to see 1 April as the ‘ big bang ’ .
16 As in so many other areas , developments in the European general insurance field are providing the profession with much more work in monitoring and reviewing draft directives and associated legislation from the regulatory authorities .
17 As to European political union , it is vital that we consider favourably proposals for increased confidence for qualified majority voting and for co-decision , not just because the Community 's budget is so large that we need improved accountability and democratic restraint , but because in so many other areas — such as in respect of the environment , conditions of employment and judicial co-operation — common responsibility requires the same observance of high standards .
18 Bernhard Paumgartner was my mentor in this as in so many other things .
19 In other words , success , as in so many other things , will depend on how things are done , as well as on the merits of the proposal .
20 As in so many other things , she decided with a sigh , being out of one 's own country for such long stretches of time , left one behind the times .
21 However , as in so many other things , it is only the Labour party that is still way back in the tired old 1960s .
22 I did n't even write , I was afraid to , co I 've , I 've been inv I 'm involved in so many other things I do n't want to get involved in anything else .
23 As in so many other matters , the judge should be given the discretion to tell the press that they may not publicise the name of a person , because to do so would be in contempt of court .
24 In the negotiations , as in so many other matters , the British attitude is in advance of others .
25 The trade in birds ( such as parrots ) , where animal welfare interests and conservation are similar , as in so many other cases , shows that in 1988 the UK imported 185,000 exotic specimens .
26 As in so many other instances , we , at least , are not prepared to rely upon hope .
27 Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries .
28 There is already a feeling in some people 's minds that in athletics , as in so many other aspects of life , what can be done with the human body will be done , and that we might as well let them get on with it .
29 The party considerations , in this as in so many other aspects of local government reorganisation , seemed to have been based more on an assessment of the past rather than on considerations for the future .
30 Militant Islam is now a fact in South Africa , as it is in so many other parts of the world .
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