Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 2 | Until a Summons is served , one is in blissful ignorance as to whether it will be under the Optional Procedure or not , unless of course the third party correspondents are charitable enough to advise you . |
| 3 | The child 's voice rose in righteous indignation as Molly bit desperately into another toast soldier . |
| 4 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 5 | MPs began to trudge through the lobbies but the vote was abandoned in confusing scenes after government tellers failed to stand in their places . |
| 6 | This is interesting because Morrissey was referring back to his days spent in hopeless fandom when he practically worshipped everything that moved within the media . |
| 7 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 8 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 9 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 10 | MANY MORE cricketers have been killed while batting at Lord 's in fictional matches than in real life , mercifully . |
| 11 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 12 | Of course , this apparatus would not be valid for use in normal subjects as the corpus collosum would allow the transfer of information from one hemisphere to the other . |
| 13 | Of course , this apparatus would not be valid for use in normal subjects as the corpus collosum would allow the transfer of information from one hemisphere to the other . |
| 14 | These studies have shown that the labelling index was significantly lower in normal mucosa than in benign and malignant tumours , and that of malignant tumours was significantly greater than that in benign tumours . |
| 15 | The application of this test to patients without diarrhoea has been validated , and the test was discarded in normal volunteers if the contents of the bag were stained by faeces . |
| 16 | It would have been better to have remained in total ignorance than to know , yet not know , and have no means of finding out . |
| 17 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 18 | Due to a power blackout , their hotel was in total darkness when they arrived , and they had to trudge up the stairs with their luggage to the 10th floor . |
| 19 | After we had finished eating , my mother said : " Jill , that 's the first meal you 've eaten in total silence since you were three months old . |
| 20 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 21 | This mechanism ended in total failure when , after lengthy and various attempts to persuade several female life preparation students to give up wearing white ankle socks in favour of tights , short socks , mostly white , suddenly became very fashionable and seemed to adorn every other pair of ankles in the building . |
| 22 | Will we object in 75 years if our ancestor 's medical records become publicly accessible ? |
| 23 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 24 | The word originated as a marketing term from Germany and referred to a type of board that was easier to control in strong winds than the earlier boards . |
| 25 | Stability : this is a well designed , aerodynamic tent with excellent stability in strong winds when all the guylines are pegged out . |
| 26 | No , I 'll put me trust in strong peppermints while I can , and hope Doctor Lovell can spare a couple of minutes when I 'm real hard-pressed . |
| 27 | She first appeared as a strange red light , as of a ship all a-glow , in the midst of which light her masts , spars and sails , seemingly those of a normal brig. , some 200 yards distant from us , stood out in strong relief as she came up . |
| 28 | Demonstrations have quietened down , I gather , and presumably will not flower again in strong colours until the TV cameras and reporters turn up again and I should think that is unlikely before the objectors start seriously to pitch in . |
| 29 | sole practitioners are not a homogeneous group — they represent those engaging in low risk as well as high risk work ; |
| 30 | These other aggregating agents which cause shape change before platelet-platelet aggregation release calcium initially from an intracellular structure , probably the dense tubular system , so that there is an elevation in cytoplasmic calcium before plasma membrane calcium is altered ( Gerrard et al , 1981 ) . |