Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In conversational speech the two-way element is crucial . |
2 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
3 | In due course the International Committee completed its arrangements , and the Congress of Europe was held in The Hague in May 1948 . |
4 | In due course the black goat was sacrificed with the appropriate ceremonies to appease the river and nobody was in the least surprised when , little by little , the river began to fall . |
5 | In due course the whole idea was rejected . |
6 | In due course the Independent Television Commission will replace the Independent Broadcasting Authority . |
7 | In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol . |
8 | In due time the Latin Church decreed that Easter should be ‘ celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after 21 March ’ , and although this simplified matters slightly Easter Day might still fall on any one of thirty-five days , starting with 22 March and ending with 25 April , and the whole of the calendar was controlled by this wide spectrum . |
9 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
10 | In light air the large genoa helps push you forward and in heavy , choppy seas , the larger headsail powers you through the waves . |
11 | The A.87 now crosses the loch on a long causeway with a warning of high winds , but even in calm weather the former road continuing up the valley to round the head of the loch , at the cost of two extra miles , is to be preferred . |
12 | In medieval Christendom the appropriate saying was ‘ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ . |
13 | In liberal corporatism the institutional distinctiveness of the state becomes obscured . |
14 | And now in early autumn the Emerald band is making mellow music . |
15 | In ordinary hydrogen the bulky proton is almost at rest relative to the flighty lightweight electron which encircles it . |
16 | In Ordinary Justice the National Consumer Council were scathingly critical of such court proceedings which in practice , they said , became a rubber stamp . |
17 | In actual fact the royal bastard 's heavy hand sent an arrow of pain down the side of my face . |
18 | In composite form the tensile modulus is reduced , but the modulus-to-density ratios for carbon fibre and Kevlar nevertheless remain markedly superior to those of the common engineering materials . |
19 | That means I can sail happily upwind or downwind in perfect control the whole time . |
20 | Somewhere below another flare exploded , its fresh glare lighting up in stark relief the yawning edge of the aircraft . |
21 | Thorez noted : Nizan has been satisfied to play in real life the wretched part of Pluvinage , the police spy he brings into his latest novel . |
22 | In natural conversation the smooth flow and blending of sounds mean that whole phrases make a phonetic whole . |
23 | Whereas in Chomskian grammar the basic approach is ‘ top-down ’ , with transformation rules sometimes applying in ways that require one to consider syntactic environments beyond the immediate focus of application , the picture in Montague grammar is simpler , in a way more congenial to our evolutionary picture . |
24 | In today 's truncated debate hon. Members have questioned in great detail the precise nature of the rebate system for students and others who are eligible . |
25 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
26 | In Egyptian mythology the first ruler had been the god Re , the creator , who brought with him in the person of his daughter , Maat , the concepts of truth , justice and the order of nature and society . |
27 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
28 | In noisy Triumph the last Load moves on , |
29 | In noisy mode the final bit shifted in on normalization is one ( instead of zero , as in the standard mode ) . |
30 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |