Example sentences of "in [adj -er] generations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the MP er the terrorists of today in further generations , the only way to stop them is to stamp out the supplier of er their arms and their money , as without th er the guns and the bombs er the edge have gone . |
| 2 | A man explained that he was called Ibrahim to keep alive the name of his grandfather 's brother , killed without issue perhaps at the battle of Yellow Hill , or at Kawz , or at Hawaria ; and the same patterns appeared in other genealogies : the names of men without descendants , killed in battle , are recalled for use in a collateral line in later generations . |
| 3 | ‘ Mining uranium out of the ground to fuel nuclear plants averts health effects of radon in later generations . ’ |
| 4 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 5 | By focusing attention , albeit in negative and often hostile fashion , on that issue , the radical Hegelians placed on the agenda what was to become an urgent matter in later generations . |
| 6 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 7 | Regardless of its limitations , the system of Paracelsus seems more satisfactory than the highly regarded but crude reductionist models that came into vogue in later generations . |
| 8 | The displaced or externalised mother or father figure ( including , of course , the state ) can be seen as a repository of tradition and culture , again regulating people 's innate drives towards survival and genetic representation in later generations . |
| 9 | By working from this new standpoint , Schleiermacher aimed to bypass the antitheses which had emerged so sharply in earlier generations between reason and revelation , natural religion and received authority , the natural and the supernatural , and to offer a fresh synthesis in which both the authentic and distinctive character of religion and the special nature of the Christian faith would be preserved . |
| 10 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 11 | In this chapter , I shall set the context , by highlighting some of the key features which affected kin relationships in earlier generations . |
| 12 | The issue of retirement had never been on the agenda previously , quite simply because people died much younger in earlier generations . |
| 13 | Like exponents of the argument from design in earlier generations , Paley had to confront the fact that some species possessed structures that were useful for the killing of prey . |
| 14 | Much of this writing , however , remained essentially the same as in earlier generations — inevitably so , since most of the characteristics of a successful diplomat have not changed over centuries . |
| 15 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 16 | These diplomats , as in earlier generations , were by no means always scrupulous in their use of their privileges . |
| 17 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 18 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 19 | As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations . |
| 20 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |
| 21 | An additional factor is that there are significantly more undergraduates nowadays in every year than there were in earlier generations . |