Example sentences of "and in [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prejudice , such as that exploited by Tupper in Cardiff in 1911 , became mixed with self concern — the belief that Asiatic crews would work for lower wages and in worse conditions than British , and so undercut the union 's effort to improve both in the British seaman 's interests . |
| 2 | You 've been very kind , and I 'm good and dry now , and I 've slept on the boat many 's the time before , and in worse nights than this . |
| 3 | Near the DSP satellite , and in lower orbits as well , there are signals-intelligence satellites that can monitor radios and radar . |
| 4 | We isolated enterobacteria , usually E coli , less frequently and in lower numbers from patients with newly diagnosed active colitis or active colitis on relapse than from patients with quiescent colitis . |
| 5 | Hadrian 's energy , mobility and his tendency to intervene in provincial and private affairs led to far-reaching changes , both in the personal appearance of his subjects and in wider aspects of public and private life . |
| 6 | Seven days treatment with a cumulative dose of dexamethasone equivalent to 0.75 g prednisolone has been followed by osteonecrosis with the appearance of symptoms two years later , whereas most patients receiving steroids , do so for long periods and in higher doses without developing articular symptoms . |
| 7 | For instance , when the scale of production increases , horse or steam power is likely to be substituted for manual labour ; materials are likely to be brought from a greater distance and in greater quantities , thus increasing those expenses of production which correspond to the work of carriers , middlemen and traders of all kinds . |
| 8 | ‘ They will be back , and in greater numbers . |
| 9 | Accommodation is readily available in the villages and small towns on the way and in remoter areas thee is a good network of refuges and gîtes . |
| 10 | He also worked extensively amid the squalor of Britain 's inner cities and in remoter areas of Scotland , including the island crofting community of St Kilda . |
| 11 | Song more plaintive and reedier than Skylark 's , and in shorter phases , often mimetic , sometimes delivered in air , but never with soaring display of Skylark . |
| 12 | They can feel cold at first but they do warm up quickly and in warmer conditions the modern micro-fibre fabrics commonly used do n't feel sticky in the way that older nylon linings did . |
| 13 | ‘ Images ’ comes in rich deep colours of blue , black , green and red , and in lighter shades of the same colours . |
| 14 | An investigation into the Youth Training Scheme , for example , points out that a much smaller proportion of young black people were obtaining places on the Mode A schemes , which offered better chances of permanent employment , and in larger proportions found themselves placed in Mode B schemes , with worse prospects ( CRE , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 16 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 17 | During the Renaissance and in later times the Pantheon has aroused the admiration of artists of all nations . |
| 18 | At the west end is the narthex and in later times a campanile has been added . |
| 19 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 20 | Some of these questions will recur in the discussion section at the end of this chapter , and in later chapters on both intergovernmental relations and the services provided regionally , but for the present we will remain with those services provided by local government in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Archaeology has shown that customs recorded here and in later chapters reflect the known social and cultural patterns of north Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC . |
| 22 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 23 | A museum of economic botany was opened in 1847 , and in later decades Kew played a vital role in the spread of useful plants around the British empire . |
| 24 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 25 | Several of L'Orient 's editions of that autumn had also disappeared and in later issues , articles about the new Phalange party — the headlines still intact but the accompanying text missing — had been crudely cut from the pages . |
| 26 | Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome . |
| 27 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 28 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 29 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 30 | The owner and Editor-in-Chief of the Times-Herald , Mr Thomas Miller was a staunch Liberal supporter of William Lyon MacKenzie King and in later years was appointed by the Prime Minister as a Canadian Senator . |