Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very difficult to understand the root causes of our failure to take industrial R&D seriously , but Sir Eric thinks that it is at least in part simply a reflection of a more pervasive anti-intellectualism which seems to run through British society . |
| 2 | Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him . |
| 3 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 4 | In contrast with a shareholder , the debentureholder is in law not a member of the company having rights in it , but a creditor having rights against it . |
| 5 | It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable . |
| 6 | AN Army and civilian exercise went ahead in secret yesterday a casualty of the General Election . |
| 7 | We followed him in silence up a flight of stairs to a corridor too dark for eyes to pick out its furthest point . |
| 8 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 9 | It is in fact not a doctrine of neutrality but of moral pluralism . |
| 10 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 11 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 12 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 13 | At the inaugural session on Sept. 4 Rawlings asserted , however , that the emerging " New World Order " was in fact merely a continuation of the familiar superpower monopoly , in that the 4,000 million people in the developing countries were still being crushed and undermined by the economic interests of the developed world . |
| 14 | It has been claimed by some that the apparent warming trend was in fact only a reflection of the " urban heat island effect " , because most of the records come from cities . |
| 15 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 16 | Moreover while electronics is seen as a growth industry , it is in fact nationally a sector of ‘ jobless growth ’ . |
| 17 | Cowles postulated that the sequence thus observed in space was equivalent to that observed in time when a section of lake was filled in and converted to dry land . |