Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sound travels better in water than in air , and as the fish 's body contains a high proportion of water within it , the sound waves penetrate the skull and reach the semicircular canals without the aid of the special passage needed by vertebrates that live in air . |
| 2 | In fact , sound travels much better in water than in air , as any diver will know . |
| 3 | Some leaders ( eg in politics or in trade unions ) might be elected . |
| 4 | Keepnets too , should be large , not necessarily in length but in width . |
| 5 | But again , over a surprisingly wide area , and especially in song and in the simpler instruments , some degree of relatively unmediated access is available , with some shared rhythmic resources , possibly of the whole species , as an important factor . |
| 6 | This will prevent flower buds from developing ; if flowering is important , allow the hedge to grow less formally , pruning it annually in spring or after flowering according to variety . |
| 7 | The dialogue-based text is ideal for reading aloud in class or for encouraging pupils to act out the stories . |
| 8 | Challenged that the company has been criticised for not investing enough in research and for not being a technology leader , Passera retorted that the company invested over $785m every year , of which about half went into research and development . |
| 9 | Not unlike Anglican Bishops , he felt , impressive enough in bulk but with tiny , tiny heads . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 11 | Colonic function is impaired , however , in acute diarrhoeal disease , perhaps in part because of low concentrations of SCFAs . |
| 12 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 13 | Home demand is surely not going to be stimulated by a reduction of half a percent or so in price and in any case , with 4 million unemployed , is a thriving domestic market a real possibility ? |
| 14 | We are intimately acquainted with the state of this painter 's worn-out trousers , decaying coats , leaking boots , the money spent on his teeth , his food , his rooms , more so in fact than with any other artist . |
| 15 | When a beginner joins a club the first thing he will become aware of is that great emphasis is placed upon training exercises and stretching , more so in taekwondo than in most other martial arts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , by early Tudor times this had changed , and strangers , though still a substantial element , were generally less in evidence than in rural parts , while natives show few signs of having flocked in to replace them . |
| 18 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 19 | It is less than this in the teeth from hen harrier pellets , less in fact than for the kestrel , but the type of digestion is similar . |
| 20 | Not only in biotechnology and in computer science ; even in archaeology and fine art , we see that academics ( advising new museums and making television films ) are finding with no little alacrity that their intellectual capital is highly marketable . |
| 21 | The ‘ Entebbe Maths ’ in the ‘ sixties and for the ‘ sixties was a success story and one which laid the foundation for interest and expertise in curriculum development not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well . |
| 22 | Corruption and repression were rife , not only in education but throughout society . |
| 23 | The authorities were taking a proactive role , acting as the mainspring of change not only in fundholding but in other areas such as consumer surveys and information systems . |
| 24 | Many country banks lent in their own notes , but others did so only in coin or in Bank of England notes or bills and drafts . |
| 25 | Except , perhaps , to underline that Venice has now become a problem of national priority , not only in actuality but in the collective consciousness . |
| 26 | They no doubt see it as an incentive to do well for their client , and here in the free market lawyers solicit not only in court but in the newspapers , offering $95 divorces and other cut price rates . |
| 27 | They did their best to include me as ‘ family ’ , but I felt rather forlorn and sad , so far from those I loved , and from one especially , not only in distance but in spirit . |
| 28 | I did n't actually see anyone touch their forelock , but from the moment when Mrs Field accompanied the entry of the turkey with blasts of a hunting horn , to shots of Hannah primly seated , timidly moving one foot to the music , I knew this was a world far removed , not only in distance but in time , from the pace of urban life in which I move . ’ |
| 29 | That was only in part because of good sense . |
| 30 | There seems also to be a feeling not only in government but in the mass media that academics lack conviction , that they are a bit ‘ wet ’ or ‘ wimpish ’ , that they produce , to use the Prime Minister 's phrase , ‘ guffy stuff ’ . |