Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the strippings and restorations are recorded in dated pencilled notes on stocks or in butt-traps which helps recreate a gun 's personal history . |
| 2 | In early May OPEC oil ministers met in emergency session in Geneva [ see p. 37475 ] and an agreement was reached on cutting production , but the Paris-based International Energy Agency , in its June 5 report , said that OPEC output actually fell only by 400,000 barrels a day ( bpd ) in May , a figure which was wholly attributable to cuts in Saudi Arabian production and which was far short of the 1,450,000 bpd reduction pledged at the OPEC emergency meeting . |
| 3 | But while large companies are only a small percentage of total businesses , they dominate the economy , such that ‘ a large proportion of economic activity in present-day capitalist economies is concentrated in a relatively small number of absolutely large firms ’ . |
| 4 | In present-day western society we have cultural goals of material success : plenty of money , a big house , flash cars , pretty girl/handsome boy , for example . |
| 5 | In present-day western society , most patients will need some dietary therapy and postural correction . |
| 6 | However various kinds of feminists might wish it otherwise , women play a mix of roles in present-day British society : they are wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers , and they somehow juggle all these roles together , largely by taking on part-time work which , as Land points out , is seriously marginalised when it comes to occupational benefits . |
| 7 | Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME . |
| 8 | The idea of distinctive features was put forward in the early 1930s by Bloomfield ( 1933 ) and Trubetzkoy ( various publications leading up to 1939 ) ; however , in early work and in present-day functional phonology , the features are worked out individually for the language being studied . |
| 9 | The Department of Education had accepted criticisms of the provision made for young children in ordinary elementary schools and had phased out arrangements for under-threes by 1904 ( in 1875 elementary schools accommodated 19,358 under-threes ) . |
| 10 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 11 | It was a modern cocktail , apricot-coloured and served in tall narrow glasses with ice , a glacé cherry and a slice of lemon . |
| 12 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 13 | Er it 's , it 's not a problem , it just er it shows up in odd little corners of the . |
| 14 | Since they are hard to find , except in odd little shops that specialise in big underpants and sheepskin slippers for old people , they cost a pretty penny . |
| 15 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 16 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 17 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 18 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 19 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 20 | Welsh is a also a foundation subject , in non-Welsh speaking schools in Wales . |
| 21 | Major banks have also swapped about eight billion dollars in debt for shares in profitable Third World companies . |
| 22 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 23 | ( a ) Serial correlation in aggregate real variables |
| 24 | There is a long and distinguished history of studying the visual system using ‘ psychophysical ’ procedures in which variations in subjective visual experience with variations in visual input are studied . |
| 25 | In crassly materialistic terms , our students are unlikely to benefit from a training that rests on the principal that historical computing is distinctive owing to its scientific properties ( as advocated by humanities computing departments ) , or its especial role in subjective historical analysis ( as advocated by history departments ) . |
| 26 | The large living-cum-dining room is mostly in earthy natural shades — they 're easy on the eye and a perfect setting for the colourful rug and furniture which the Coles bought to remind them of their travels |
| 27 | If the symptoms of a latent miasmatic state appear , the remedy should be changed suitably and if a nosode is chosen then the centesimal scale will have to be used as except for Bacillunum these are not available in fifty millesimal form ( the Helios Pharmacy now has most nosodes available as LM 's ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I like to think that it is going on all over Masailand in fifty thousand kraals at this moment . ’ |
| 29 | And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one . |
| 30 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |