Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , returning from Chartres to Paris in 1141 , sought him out in order to facilitate his own preparation for teaching ; he was thenceforward in close touch with Adam until his own departure from Paris in 1146 . |
| 2 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 3 | For several months intermittent Vulcanian activity continued , hurling ash between four and eight kilometres in the air , but died down somewhat in early 1956 . |
| 4 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 5 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 6 | The controversy over low-level military training flights [ see p. 36497 ] abated somewhat in 1989 and agreement was reached in September for slower and shorter low-level training sorties by North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Air Forces [ see p. 37226 ] . |
| 7 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 8 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 9 | The position improved somewhat in 1999 and 1990 , and on 31 March 1991 the prison population stood at 45,106 in a system with accommodation for 43,262 ( NACRO , 1991b ) . |
| 10 | Suffice it to say that there is good reason to believe that the original censuses in Numbers 1 and 26 set out the numbers of each tribe , somewhat in this form : |
| 11 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 12 | In one or other of these ways , seeds are usually produced abundantly in normal seasons . |
| 13 | Went solo in 1977 and had his first hit a year later with Fool If You Think It 's Over . |
| 14 | Ken is now launching the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra , the first rehearsal of which will take place next Saturday at 2pm in Methodist College . |
| 15 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 16 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , seedlings survive better in stony soil . |
| 18 | That will help them cope better in mixed business situations . |
| 19 | They have said that they are disappointed not to be making at the very least £12 million , and possibly even £17 million — and are determined to do better in 1995 . |
| 20 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 21 | Labour did better in 1992 than in 1983 or 1987 , but otherwise it is the party 's worst performance since the dark days of 1931 . |
| 22 | Can Spanish hero Carlos Cardus go one better in 1991 , or has he missed his biggest chance of winning the title ? |
| 23 | The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach . |
| 24 | It is a decision that has , in principle , to be taken early on , so that the creative group can concentrate their efforts on the right type of ads — though because some creative ideas work better in one medium than another , the initial decision may be left more or less open . |
| 25 | There is often no optimal design , treatment or solution ; better in one way means worse in another . |
| 26 | PC WEATHERFAX — the best FAX system now even better in NEW Version 5 |
| 27 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 28 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 29 | Some birds may do better in that situation and some worse . |
| 30 | I will refrain from the obvious comment , and merely state that Air Force food was usually good , if a bit basic , and we came off better in that department than civilians . |