Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance .
2 Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 .
3 And there were strange parallels in the patterns of their childhood .
4 The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus .
5 Among the reasons for this is the subtle change in relationship which occurs , enabling the teacher to be seen more often alongside the pupil , a person of humour and unexpected worldly interests , taking part in the everyday activities of life , sharing the triumphs and disasters of such occasions and bonded by unexpected confidences .
6 As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere .
7 He failed to recognize , or understand , the subtle change in emphasis which had taken place .
8 Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force .
9 He hesitated a moment , his eyes growing accustomed to the subtle change in lighting , then crossed the room , quickly , silently , and stood beside the bed .
10 Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas .
11 He sensed the subtle change in her , which was possibly betrayed by the firm manner in which she gripped the hand that moved towards her skirt waistband .
12 It was mainly due to a subtle change in Francis .
13 Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas .
14 A subtle change in psychology .
15 Variations in the uptake of labelled leucocytes in these organs have been reported and patients with inflammatory bowel disease may have associated hyposplenism which may affect the splenic uptake .
16 It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role .
17 They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated to this area .
18 They said that although Strathclyde had advanced and innovative policies in many areas of race equality , their research findings gave ‘ a clear signal ’ that far greater resources needed to be allocated .
19 The highest of these levels produce the long-term stability and progressive improvements in efficiency of the specific decision units lower in the system .
20 Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past .
21 Mandela on Oct. 12 said that the ANC was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalization if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the country .
22 Just over 20% of referrals went to private clinics in phase 1 .
23 The similarities between the two groups of practices in the proportion going to private clinics in each individual specialty ( table VI ) were much more striking than the differences .
24 However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in .
25 The preponderance of VGP paths lying along the eastern Pacific rim reported by Laj and others is therefore evidence of asymmetry between reversed and normal states in the field .
26 The amount of colonic platelet activating factor content decreased significantly ( p<0.05 ) in four and returned to normal values in three patients ( Fig 5 ) .
27 The interrelationships between these concepts involve a shift from the descriptive framework in which thoughts and memories can be described as conscious , preconscious or unconscious — and feelings as either conscious or unconscious , but not preconscious — to a more dynamic framework of the psychic life of human beings .
28 The British Ceramic Research Association , for instance , have a routine impact test for ceramic tiles in which a loosely supported square tile is struck a measured blow in the centre of one flat face .
29 The acute rise in blood glucose concentrations was induced by an intravenous bolus injection of a glucose 20% solution 45 minutes before the start of CCK-33 infusion .
30 The bequest was for ‘ the spread of Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form , and to the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion . ’
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