Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most likely explanation is that the factors determining breeding success in males and females tend to be most similar in monogamous species and most different in highly polygynous ones . |
| 2 | We are familiar with the spectacle of its loss , in pre-war Germany , for example , and in present-day Russia and China ; and so we are the more determined to preserve it for ourselves . |
| 3 | As Chapter 2 has indicated , soil erosion has occurred in many different societies and periods of history — in feudal Europe , the Soviet Union , Tsarist Russia , the United States in the 1930s , and in present-day peasantries and under widely differing physical conditions . |
| 4 | ‘ I daresay you will , ’ said Nerina , waving cheerfully to the group of smiling students , brightly wrapped in woolly hats and scarves , who now approached her . |
| 5 | So , snug in woolly bear and dry suit , smirking with excitement , I attached my lung and all the other necessities to my BCD . |
| 6 | Mrs Ives and her husband are most interested in monoclonal antibodies and would , I feel , benefit from your wisdom . ’ |
| 7 | In addition , the USA has a very much larger market in used aircraft and a constant supply of new ones , both of which act to depress prices . |
| 8 | Stunned but ineffectual , she yelled in righteous rage and tried to pull herself to her feet , wanting nothing else but to throw herself at Duvall as … |
| 9 | Table 8.2 also shows that herbicides and fertilisers are frequently used in silvicultural practices and , as discussed in sections 6.3.1 and 6.4.3 , these can have detrimental environmental impacts . |
| 10 | Coed y — low-grade , copper porphyry-style Brenin deposit in Cambrian intrusives and sediments . |
| 11 | Mineralisation occurred in North Wales during the Lower Palaeozoic with the formation of the Coed y Brenin porphyry copper deposit in Cambrian diorite and the Parys Mountain Cu-Pb-Zn volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in Ordovician volcanic and sedimentary rocks . |
| 12 | These were very much in the tradition of the older polyphonic laudi , but before long imitation and chromaticism appeared in Oratorian laudi and by the end of the century an element of dramatic dialogue which was to flower into the full-blown ‘ oratorio ’ . |
| 13 | Systematic changes in the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy would produce only predictable changes in aggregate demand and therefore can not be used to stabilize real output — policy is ineffective . |
| 14 | An increase in aggregate demand and the consequent increase in the absolute price level affect all islands equally , though the mechanism of demand diffusion is unclear . |
| 15 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 16 | Attempts have been made to relate expenditure on R and D to performance indicators both in aggregate terms and at the level of particular industries [ Pavitt , 1980 ] . |
| 17 | While that seemed intellectually right , he said , it depended too much on the integrity of management and advisers in subjective assessments and far safer would be to accept the limitations of balance sheets and adhere more rigidly to historical values . |
| 18 | These firms advertise in do-it-yourself magazines and Exchange and Mart . |
| 19 | This was much more rapid than the sorts of changes observed in long-run studies and indeed was in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | Other studies have measured ‘ spontaneous ’ platelet aggregation in platelet-rich plasma and whole blood in vitro using a variety of techniques but mostly involving agitation by stirring . |
| 21 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 22 | When I add that youngsters have reportedly been paid by film crews to put on displays in stolen cars and that a recent Channel 4 programme tried — ludicrously and dangerously — to suggest that the real problem was police brutality , hon. Members will have some idea of the anger felt by my constituents about the gross irresponsibility shown by some of the media . |
| 23 | But the man said he ‘ understood ’ a decision had been taken by the leadership of the UDA/ UFF to raid the homes of RUC officers in loyalist areas and ‘ subject their wives and children to similar treatment . ’ |
| 24 | The fact-finding visit comes in the aftermath of an upsurge in loyalist violence and comments by Albert Reynolds that the violence underlined the urgent need for inter-party talks to be resumed . |
| 25 | The attacks confirmed fears of a dramatic increase in loyalist violence and raised the threat of a sectarian shooting war should the IRA bow to pressure to strike back . |
| 26 | Although the numbers are small , there were similar rates of endometriosis in the never pregnant and in the unknown category , low rates in pregnant women and in the 48 months following pregnancy , and then higher rates once again in the remaining groups . |
| 27 | Meeting the Australian Prime Minister , Paul Keating , and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade , Gareth Evans , Zhu said that China and Australia had no fundamental conflicts of interest and should co-operate in preserving peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region . |
| 28 | If a job starts in normal hours and runs into overtime , that time should be charged at the quarter hour rate . |
| 29 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 30 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |