Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triticale pancakes mixes and crackers , sold widely in Canada and in many health food stores in the United States , are rapidly gaining converts because of their savoury , nutty flavour . |
| 2 | The research examines why such policies appear to have developed less in Britain than in many other European countries . |
| 3 | The ability to communicate effectively in speech and in writing is one of the most important attributes I had to cultivate — said father . |
| 4 | But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest . |
| 5 | Rapes , murders , assaults , kidnaps and muggings are reported daily in newspapers and in the media . |
| 6 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 7 | Hill farmers are primarily stockmen who delight more in animals than in machinery , buildings , or cash crops . |
| 8 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 9 | The guiding principles in using drama alongside other curriculum areas are that it should : give greater purpose and meaning to work both in drama and in the associated curriculum areas |
| 10 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 11 | Secondly , this group is set to increase both in number and as a proportion of the population in future years . |
| 12 | on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ? |
| 13 | He is not expected back in London until after Christmas . |
| 14 | Less commissioned research was carried out in TMOS than in previous years , mainly because DOE let no new applied geological mapping contracts during the year , while several such contracts came to an end . |
| 15 | Some ( 40% ) found , at times , that the new job was carried out in isolation and without team support . |
| 16 | Female sterilisation is usually carried out in hospital or in a well-equipped clinic . |
| 17 | Woodland plants grow well in clearings and along the forest edge and provide food for many insects and mammals . |
| 18 | We , we 're not doing too badly , erm , but you need to know well in advance as to when those resolutions will be taken . |
| 19 | This process , characteristic of the whole of the public enterprise sector , occurred earlier in Britain than in Spain for reasons explained in previous chapters . |
| 20 | Attempts by both India and China to open their economies in the 1980s have resulted in a tug-of-war between their economic liberals and economic conservatives , which shows every sign of ending either in stalemate or in a victory for the conservatives . |
| 21 | Like its counterpart in section 4 , the offence can be committed either in public or in private , subject to the private dwelling exemption . |
| 22 | And if the client 's needs suggested the former , he would probably be advised to invest not in shares but in debentures . |
| 23 | Sykes 's system , which was also used for interlocking railway swing bridges across rivers , was applied widely in Britain and in the USA , Russia , and Japan . |
| 24 | The CCSCE points out that , since 1961 , public investment has grown less in California than in any other state . |
| 25 | This request was turned down in Varta/Bosch and in Alcatel/AEG Kabel . |
| 26 | Such an exercise is , therefore , best done not in isolation but in co-operation with the other churches . |
| 27 | They had to start promptly at four , however , since the twilight came early in Egypt and by six it was getting too dark to see . |
| 28 | In fact 30–40% of all polytechnic courses are Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) validated , and in spite of the insistence by CNAA validating panels that library instruction should be written into CNAA degree courses , it is accepted more in spirit than in practice . |
| 29 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 30 | Reaction between methane and chlorine occurs rapidly in sunlight or at temperatures greater than 300oc . |