Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern is present also in the tawny owl and little owl assemblages ( Fig. 3.3 ) , and the numbers of isolated teeth are also greater , indicating increasing bone destruction of the jaws . |
| 2 | The group is strongest in the resilient Midlands and a land bank stretching five years is good security . |
| 3 | The 24,000-strong Army of Africa , stationed in Morocco and commanded by General Franco , was incomparably the best fighting force in the Spanish army and one hundred per cent behind the rising . |
| 4 | The use of legal paths of dispute settlement reflects the much greater role of legal regulation of labour relations in the Spanish system than in Britain . |
| 5 | THE chances of John Toshack completing his two-year contract as Real Madrid 's manager look thin , with speculation growing in the Spanish capital that he will go by next summer . |
| 6 | James Jeffrey , 50 , Charles Smith , also 50 , and Kevin Thorn , 33 , were arrested in November , 1990 , after anti-drug squad officers had kept them under surveillance in the Spanish capital and on the Costa del Sol for several months . |
| 7 | In this way the territorial gains in the Spanish Netherlands and Franche Comté made by Louis XIV in the 1660s and 1670s were careful to leave private and corporate rights there untouched . |
| 8 | I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time . |
| 9 | For more than a hundred years thousands of children have dug in the firm sand and paddled in the sea on the safe Swanage beach . |
| 10 | Some , like Deutsche Bank and Crédit Lyonnais , are piecing together hugely expensive pan-European bank networks in the firm belief that retail banking can be moved across borders . |
| 11 | In 1950 a polled Finnish bull was imported — and more than one Irishman has claimed that it was in fact an Irish Moiled , in the firm belief that all polled Scandinavian cattle were descended from polled Irish cattle seized by raiding Norsemen and Danes . |
| 12 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | On the whole I bore the strictures with courage in the firm belief that what had been done was the best that could be done . |
| 14 | This we shall certainly do , in the firm belief that it is the true way forward — based on a realistic appraisal of the continued role of the nation state — towards peace , stability and prosperity in Europe . |
| 15 | Another source for dances of character can be found in the sad clown or ‘ the man who gets slapped ’ . |
| 16 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 17 | He says they 're very low in the chemical content and if you 're going to get anything out of it it 's going to be in your mind more than anything else . |
| 18 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 19 | We can see part of the answer by looking at how modern DNA molecules cooperate in the chemical factories that are living cells . |
| 20 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 21 | Traditionally , the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters . |
| 22 | However , little remains static in the chemical industry and , as natural gas became available ICI had a new challenge and new opportunities for selling catalysts and for licensing its technology . |
| 23 | For Canguilhem the history of a concept will have its own specific temporality , demonstrating less a process of epistemological self-correction as in the pure sciences than the persistence of the problem within all the contradictory solutions and ideological values that have been given to it and which make up its history . |
| 24 | In the 1970s scheme after scheme was launched , but there seemed little sense of direction or coherence . |
| 25 | In the 1970s Abrams and colleagues carried out the ‘ Street studies ’ of neighbouring and subsequently reviewed neighbourhood care schemes . |
| 26 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
| 27 | In the 1970s Australia and California were producing such full , fruity and oaky Chardonnays that it was hard to drink more than one glass . |
| 28 | In the 1970s Portugal and Spain both emerged from long periods of dictatorship and established parliamentary-electoral systems with remarkable smoothness . |
| 29 | In the 1970s optimism and faith gave way to disillusion and doubt as medical costs soared with little apparent benefit . |
| 30 | The impacts of traffic on street life were described as ‘ subtle , complex and , in many instances , very destructive ’ by Donald Appleyard in his pioneering work in the 1970s Pushkarev and Zupan agree , though they perhaps express their view with more poetic licence : |