Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they eat or not in such cases will depend not so much on the food itself as on their varying mood . |
| 2 | Studies on the enforcement of laws prohibiting certain corporate activities in America ( McCormick 1977 ; Seymour 1973 ) , Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ; Snider 1978 ) , and England ( Carson 1970 ) all suggest that even in that minority of cases where criminalization occurs , the legal sanctions imposed fail to act as a deterrent because they are trifling fines rather than imprisonment and normally are directed at smaller , relatively less victimizing , corporations . |
| 3 | You would marvel to know that even in that locality Sectarianism has raised its voice . |
| 4 | Well you want if only in that , if I can play it back . |
| 5 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 6 | Do you think that perhaps in many cases they 're frightened of losing their jobs ? |
| 7 | We are beginning to see that even in those cases where the child and the new family intend the placement to be adoptive , adoption sometimes does not happen . |
| 8 | The director , Andrew Warren , admitted that even in that citadel of energy conservation he had come to the conclusion that the savings would not justify the cost . |
| 9 | The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses . |
| 10 | This , perhaps , made us feel that here in this sunlit place serenity bore a deeper meaning , it was the peace for which the thousands lying here had given their lives . |
| 11 | It can thus be seen that both in this chapter and in the closely related one on adult education which follows , the Report addresses English professors and teaching staff not so much as professionals but as responsible public figures ; as socially concerned part-time and even voluntary preachers functioning to disseminate a national culture . |
| 12 | In the case of the railways this included a power to revise fares where excessive profits were made and even in some circumstances an express right to take the undertaking into state ownership . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century account book , the data form and the content , the use structure and the data structure are still closely related but even in these documents , the accounting manuals of the 1830s are important for interpretation . |
| 14 | However , strict neurological assessment showed that even in these infants minor neurological impairments were detectable , which may indicate a risk of cognitive deficits later . |
| 15 | But in The Uses of Literacy ( 1957 ) Richard Hoggart showed that even in these dismal surroundings people could find all they wanted in terms of home , work , friends and relations , food , drink , clothing and suchlike provisions , churches , schools and facilities for leisure and entertainment . |
| 16 | Mostly , these were people in lower socio-economic groups ; but it is worth noting that even in these groups people with high credit commitments , or people who said that if they had to arrange a loan it would be for a relatively large sum of money , generally said they would prefer monthly repayments . |
| 17 | I suspect that even in those days you were a workaholic . |
| 18 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 19 | If that is necessary then that is of course what happened and indeed in many cases that is exactly what happened . |
| 20 | Only in Leicestershire was there any appreciable cereal growing and even in this county it amounted to no more than 26% of the arable acreage . |
| 21 | RSPCA regional manager Sue Mace said : ‘ Constant public vigilance is needed as sadly in many cases it is too late to help animals . |
| 22 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 23 | ‘ Though we have seen much of the liberality of Nevada practice , ’ he told them , ‘ we assume that even in that forward-looking jurisdiction , parties to a case of divorce may not litigate by day and copulate by night . ’ |
| 24 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 25 | It now seems that only in those cases where there is no identity of interest will the problem of other businesses gaining the benefit of a restrictive covenant be at all important and the courts will not take account of the doctrine of incorporation or of privity of contract if such an identity exists . |
| 26 | Finance houses sought to promote business in a responsible manner , recognizing that only in that way would they be promoting profitable business . |
| 27 | Friday is market day and it must be admitted that even in these times of high-speed travel , mini-breaks , and the lure of the larger towns , Combsburgh comes alive . |
| 28 | Another social division also emerged between those , mainly day , voluntary schools which needed to accept rate subsidy in order to maintain and improve their standards , and the elite , mainly boarding , schools , which were able to survive and indeed in this period to expand , unsubsidized , on the financial basis of their income from fees , endowments and investments . |
| 29 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 30 | I mention that not in any boastful sense it 's only to reassure you that if I can do that then I , I ca n't be very much out of giving the wrong gen . |