Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a severe , worn pressure of thought about his temples , a fire in his eye ( as if he saw something in objects more than outward appearance ) , an intense , high , narrow forehead , a Roman nose , cheeks furrowed by a strong purpose , and a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth , a good deal at variance with the solemn , stately expression of |
| 2 | With the increase of industry and commerce in the nineteenth century , and especially with the development of joint stock companies with limited liability , investment in money rather than in land became the most convenient and popular form . |
| 3 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 4 | Whole chapters can be SKIMMED in minutes rather than hours . |
| 5 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 6 | In an interview published in three West European newspapers on Dec. 14 , Willy Brandt , the former West German Chancellor who was in Moscow immediately before Honecker was deposed , maintained that a " bloodbath " had been prevented by Soviet Army officers , working within the senior echelons of the East German National People 's Army ( NVA ) . |
| 7 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 8 | These are particularly useful to describe situations where events occur in parallel or in patterns rather than in a single series . |
| 9 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 10 | Many people feel the North 's best chance of honours in the Konica League went when Colwyn Bay decided to play in exile in Northwich rather than join . |
| 11 | My motion centres on the level of employment , because there are 2 , 700 more people in employment in Shrewsbury now than there were a decade ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Because they will be in Nice long after you have gone away . |
| 13 | The result is this , the usual top-notch selection of strange , sad ( as in pathos rather than pathetic ) and massively moving material that will thrill fans of the band and probably puzzle the uninitiated ( again ! ) . |
| 14 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 16 | We only wish our insomnia was due to our street lights being too bright or , at the very least , being in existence rather than concern about our families , friends and neighbours walking through our dark paths and streets . |
| 17 | Is it not the case that the connections to the tunnel will be in existence long before the scheme before the House can be completed or , knowing the way British Rail manages to cock things up , probably before it starts digging any of the soil ? |
| 18 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 19 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 20 | The target is best expressed in hours rather than in money terms . |
| 21 | Analysis of birth weight in kilograms rather than by centiles did not affect these correlations , the absolute value for the whole cohort correlating with the standardised β cell function ( r s =0.28 ( p=0.007 ) . |
| 22 | In Nos. 1 and 3 you are particularly aware of how much he initially holds in reserve so as to reveal their full organic growth and cumulative excitement . |
| 23 | Bogarde plays a Russian emigre who runs a chocolate factory in Germany just as the Nazis begin to take power . |
| 24 | The farmers ' wives played an active role in Germany particularly if there were dairy cows or other stock . |
| 25 | Sceptics say discounters have flourished in Germany only because of tight planning restrictions on supermarkets and the limited opening hours of German shops . |
| 26 | He may recall that in Germany more than 3 million people are unemployed and he may bear it in mind that a higher proportion of people are in work in this country than in Germany or in any other European country except Denmark . |
| 27 | Ah but , I mean it 's biting in Germany now because they 've got all East Germans ! |
| 28 | Democracy was being rekindled in Germany long before a West German government was created . |
| 29 | They want to be consulted and their views listened to in meetings even if the decision does n't go their way . |
| 30 | If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement . |