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 .
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