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

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1 He adds : ‘ The whole thing brings to mind the art troubadour that was in vogue around 1830 . ’
2 ‘ Who lives there in splendour so solitary that in June nineteen forty-one he jumped from a balcony and tried to kill himself .
3 The Ford Foundation was interested in a specific agenda in funding philanthropically inclined research into urban crisis in the USA in the late 1950s and early 1960s .
4 The summer was spent in building almost 700 ships and assembling the army , of at least 11,000 men , although the exact numbers are beyond recall .
5 The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft .
6 And there were quite a large collection of police who stood in reserve up one of the side streets .
7 Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two .
8 Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 .
9 In response nearly 3,000 of her followers , members of the Church Universal and Triumphant , have packed their possessions and fled to 33,000 acres of church-owned land in Montana 's Paradise Valley .
10 ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . )
11 Among genres long since completed and in part already dead , the novel is the only developing genre .
12 This type of story shows that the pursuit of ‘ little crime ’ can have some satisfaction and legitimacy , which explains in part why most policemen and women pursue it diligently while deprecating it .
13 ( In contrast most European authorities — including the UK — insist on lead management occurring in their own market . )
14 In contrast only two to four per cent Mexicans read books without pictures .
15 In contrast only one surviving statue of Hadrian shows him dressed in a toga .
16 In contrast only 15 per cent of all other GP referrals ( and 12 per cent of other female referrals ) were not admitted , while over half were sectioned .
17 It has neither the power nor the resources to counter the pressure of the exceedingly well-organized farmers ' lobby , nor is the level of unionization in agriculture sufficiently high — it is no more than 40 per cent — to permit the contemplation of widespread militant activity .
18 For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya .
19 The father-of-three told his wife , Sandra , to run for it and bravely fought the teenage louts , who had confronted them in woodland just 50 yards from their home .
20 Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published .
21 In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada .
22 Women 's behavioural motivation is in addition conventionally gender-coded ; they are supposed to be rewarded by attention to their physical attractiveness .
23 It is difficult to maintain a consistent level of surgical anaesthesia with ether and it is in addition highly explosive .
24 In addition more complex and diffuse forms of accountability hedge public managers in ways which have no parallel in the private sector .
25 In addition more detailed information is obtained on occasion in order to satisfy the needs of ad hoc detailed projects .
26 Although the passengers in the ‘ sardine box railway ’ had to sit facing each other on long benches in light too dim to read a newspaper , they could breathe .
27 The most evident fact to note about the Ring is that it is in conception strikingly anachronistic , totally modern .
28 That the God of Judaism and of Christianity is in conception profoundly male is clear .
29 Section 13 of the Act , which permits the senior police officer to seek to have processions banned , is in essence very similar to section 3(3) of the Public Order Act 1936 .
30 In antiracism as much as in multiculturalism , the absence of any serious engagement with issues around sexuality in the ‘ irrationality ’ of popular racism is symptomatic of a rationalist understanding of pedagogies and educational processes .
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