Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone suggested they should all bathe in champagne beforehand and the bath was filled with some cheap bubbly . |
| 2 | With the increase of industry and commerce in the nineteenth century , and especially with the development of joint stock companies with limited liability , investment in money rather than in land became the most convenient and popular form . |
| 3 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 4 | The result is this , the usual top-notch selection of strange , sad ( as in pathos rather than pathetic ) and massively moving material that will thrill fans of the band and probably puzzle the uninitiated ( again ! ) . |
| 5 | We only wish our insomnia was due to our street lights being too bright or , at the very least , being in existence rather than concern about our families , friends and neighbours walking through our dark paths and streets . |
| 6 | There are six tidal barrages in existence today and the UK is currently considering a tidal barrage built across the Severn estuary . |
| 7 | Such virtual reality systems are already in existence today and foreshadow far more powerful developments likely within a few years . |
| 8 | Is it not the case that the connections to the tunnel will be in existence long before the scheme before the House can be completed or , knowing the way British Rail manages to cock things up , probably before it starts digging any of the soil ? |
| 9 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 10 | There is a suggestion of such an approach in Marx 's briefly sketched political theory , not only in his early criticism of Hegel 's philosophy of the state as revealing the ‘ imperfection of the modern state ’ , its representation of an ‘ illusory general interest ’ as against a real general interest , but also in the later Critique of the Gotha Programme ( 1875 ) , where he poses , but does not answer , the question ‘ what transformation will the state undergo in communist society … what social functions will remain in existence there that are analogous to present state functions ? ’ |
| 11 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 12 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 13 | Many schools have team members in reserve so that a quota can always be mustered to stand in for any bona fide team member whose parents can not afford the trip . |
| 14 | In Nos. 1 and 3 you are particularly aware of how much he initially holds in reserve so as to reveal their full organic growth and cumulative excitement . |
| 15 | If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement . |
| 16 | Prices were lagging behind in the mid to late Eighties , rising in sympathy rather than on a burst of serious investment buying . |
| 17 | To feel that firm , beautifully drawn mouth on hers in tenderness rather than anger ? |
| 18 | In the seventeenth century , people stopped writing in Latin even when writing for the learned , and various attempts were made at making up universal languages . |
| 19 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 20 | We are in chaos here until we get all Angela 's work redistributed , we 're all of us doing five things at once . |
| 21 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 22 | The revised format produced by the Senate is very unlikely to agree with that produced by the House of Representatives , so a joint Senate/House committee is then established to negotiate an agreed document , which the President then has to decide to accept , renegotiate , or veto ( usually in part rather than in its entirety ) . |
| 23 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 24 | But the links were not consistent or sustained , in part perhaps because it was unclear what the general discussions could be expected to deliver for particular firms and structure plans , in particular , soon gained a reputation for being of little relevance for actual processes of development . |
| 25 | In Montfort 's subsequent regime , although involved in negotiations with the Marcher barons and with the increasingly disaffected Gilbert de Clare , his role was in the provinces rather than at court , in part perhaps because of his comparative youth . |
| 26 | In the first instance Bukharin noted that the process of expanded negative reproduction was at work in agriculture just as in industry , but its material effects were mitigated by the very primitiveness of agriculture as compared to industry . |
| 27 | The drain-all , strip-out approach to land has been adopted by insurance firms investing in agriculture precisely because it requires no more thought than it takes to fill in a form for the subsidy . |
| 28 | They conclude that the effect of market share upon ROI is much less than earlier studies showed and that , broadly , a 1 per cent increase in market share led to a 0.1 per cent increase in ROI rather than the 0.5 per cent earlier supposed . |
| 29 | And anyway yesterday morning she said oh she said I 'm in luck today so I said what 's the matter then and she said . |
| 30 | A high proportion of trials which begin will end in settlement rather than judgment . |