Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] " 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 | Maybe he wintered in the area , attempting to ensure the loyalty of the West Saxon heartland where Æthelred 's son Eadwig the ætheling may have recently returned and died and where there was soon to be difficulty , for in 1019 one of his men , Agemund , received a Dorset estate by S 955 , and the dubious Exeter charter S 954 bears the same date . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In present-day western society , most patients will need some dietary therapy and postural correction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a modern cocktail , apricot-coloured and served in tall narrow glasses with ice , a glacé cherry and a slice of lemon . |
| 13 | The wine-drinking public remained sceptical , unable to digest the concept of dry French wines in tall green German bottles with Germanic names . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Er it 's , it 's not a problem , it just er it shows up in odd little corners of the . |
| 17 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The ingredients are all there : an in-house bank ; a string of obscure firms ( including the appropriately named Croesus International ) based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres ; and blocks of money winging electronically around the world . |
| 22 | Porphyry-style deposit in Cambrian intrusive and sedimentary rocks . |
| 23 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 24 | Welsh is a also a foundation subject , in non-Welsh speaking schools in Wales . |
| 25 | Major banks have also swapped about eight billion dollars in debt for shares in profitable Third World companies . |
| 26 | ( a ) Serial correlation in aggregate real variables |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 |