Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , arbiter theorists have no faith in the long-run neutrality of the courts . |
| 2 | The profits won by the producer , which in the short-run view seem clearly a monopoly rent attributable to the monopolized resource , turn out to be , in the long-run view , the profits of competitive entrepreneurship . |
| 3 | On the other hand , just as in the case of short-run macro-policy we consider offsetting changes which keep the level of aggregate demand unchanged , so in the long-run growth context we may want to compare situations where the aggregate capital-labour ratio is unchanged . |
| 4 | The question is important because it gives some clue as to the likely rise in the long-run house price to income ratio ( because demand for housing has shifted upwards , while supply remains relatively constant ) . |
| 5 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finally , the kestrel has large excesses of isolated teeth for both incisors and molars , and all three samples show a similar pattern , although with a greater range of variation than was seen in the tawny owl : incisor excess range of 110–172 per cent . |
| 8 | As the first results came in , so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum . |
| 9 | One gap which exists in this range of alternatives , is that there has been no testing of the view that the explanation for recent events lies in the non-clearing nature of the labour market . |
| 10 | On July 4 , an estimated 2,000 Jordanians demonstrated in the Jordanian capital , Amman , calling for an end to Kuwaiti mistreatment of Palestinians and Jordanians . |
| 11 | In the Jordanian capital Amman , a Palestinian armed with a pistol and a knife attacked a group of French tourists , and the Jordanian police shot and killed two youths during a protest by tens of thousands of Palestinians . |
| 12 | ABDELATIF AREBEYAT walks slowly on to the podium , utters a Koranic greeting and opens a new day of business in the Jordanian parliament . |
| 13 | Prince Abdullah , 31 , is a British-educated colonel in the Jordanian Army . |
| 14 | Prince Abdullah , 31 , is a British-educated colonel in the Jordanian Army . |
| 15 | The young Morris , born in Walthamstow and educated at Marlborough , had wanted something ‘ very medieval in spirit ’ , and the bit of north Kent which was then deep in the fruitgrowing countryside seemed the perfect place to build . |
| 16 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 17 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Of 133 battalions of infantry in the Spanish army in 1751 twenty-eight were composed of foreigners ; and it was seriously proposed in that year to raise twenty more abroad . |
| 20 | However , the percentage of electrification in the Spanish system is much higher than in Britain and will remain so even after the completion of BR 's current major electrification project on the East Coast Main Line . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | During the past twenty years , however , ‘ fascism ’ has become the object of rigorous academic analysis , with the result that much effort has been expended in attempting to establish whether or not the label is appropriate in the Spanish case . |
| 23 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 24 | Clients tend to book long haul holidays and cruises rather than two weeks in the Spanish sun . |
| 25 | Gonzalo Perez was appointed by Philip II to this position in 1556 ; and from 1567 the work was controlled by two secretaries , one handling relations with the imperial , French and English courts , the other the Italian affairs which bulked so large in the Spanish scheme of things . |
| 26 | Last year , for example , it bought Italy 's biggest cable maker Ceat Cavi for £90million and followed that with the purchase of a stake in the Spanish company , Grupo Espagnol General Cables . |
| 27 | In the Spanish sunlight his skin looked darker , more deeply tanned , and she would not have had to be told about his title . |
| 28 | It was not any supposed inherently violent trait in the Spanish character , but this element of desperation which made the Spanish Civil War the brutally barbaric conflict it was . |
| 29 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 30 | But it is real nonetheless and may shortly yield a long sought after victory in the Spanish rally championship . |