Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 2 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 3 | Elsewhere the effect of wave activity may be particularly intensely experienced by one size fraction which is either totally removed or greatly increased in proportion . |
| 4 | A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing . |
| 5 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
| 6 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 7 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 8 | For example , statements that young girls deliberately or increasingly conceive in order to secure local authority accommodation have yet to be substantiated . |
| 9 | Similarly , alienation , crime and upheaval had much less to do with individualistic action or even changes in community association . |
| 10 | They could also be taken on to rough pasture , to distant resources , or even kept in woodland ( their natural habitat ) , though milkers would not be taken too far from the settlement . |
| 11 | She was not writing of slum life so as to shock the reader , or even indulging in nostalgia so as to entertain . |
| 12 | Hoffman is a ‘ character ’ emanating a naive or crotchety puniness ; in this part , however , a more neutral figure , scholarly and aloof but not infantile or even doltish in appearance , would have been vastly preferable . ’ |
| 13 | Such methods can help individuals gain greater personal insight , but I doubt that individual insight , personality matching , or even exercises in group dynamics can produce much in the way of organizational change or an overall improvement in leadership effectiveness . |
| 14 | We need only to compare this to the average annual cost in 1986–87 of probation orders ( 900 ) , community service orders ( 520 ) , attendance sentence orders ( 117 ) or even places in probation hostels ( 7 , 174 ) to see why the Treasury is in danger of becoming a radical advocate of decarceration ! |
| 15 | Or even smiling in welcome , in some of her wilder dreams . |
| 16 | Topaz could have expressed some brief regret , or simply shrugged in helplessness , but she did n't . |
| 17 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 18 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 19 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 20 | The cake keeps well in a tin or tightly wrapped in foil and should be served sliced , buttered or with jam . |
| 21 | Having studied the proposals on behalf of the assembly 's Environment Committee , German MEP Mrs Ursula Schleicher said : ‘ The problem is immense , the substances involved — approximately 100 000 — are produced in anything form massive to minute quantities , dangerous to widely varying degrees and either known to possess dangerous properties or else shrouded in mystery on that point . |
| 22 | The buffet tables were now open , and most people in here were either crowded around them or else standing in line with plates ; she could see the two Venetz sisters and their fill-in staff working the tables , carving , serving , and fetching . |
| 23 | Iron sulphides occur naturally in the form of mineral iron pyrites , derived from rock slate or else found in peat and marine deposits . |
| 24 | Pluralism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organised into an unspecified number of multiple , voluntary , competitive , nonhierarchically ordered and self-determined ( as to type or scope of interest ) categories which are not specially licensed , recognised , subsidised , created or otherwise controlled in leadership selection or interest articulation by the state and which do not exercise a monopoly of representational activity within their respective categories . |
| 25 | Examples of unconventional graphology are found in the work of writers such as Sterne , Dickens , and Joyce , who , although widely separated in age and style , share an interest in the expressive power of the written symbol . |
| 26 | Although widely used in cancer chemotherapy , cisplatin and its analogues suffer from the drawback that tumour cells develop resistance to these drugs . |
| 27 | In their natural state , such lands are characterised by large herds of herbivores that seasonally migrate in tune with biomass availability , so it is not surprising that overgrazing and land degradation ensue . |
| 28 | Although much improved in version 4 , I 've always preferred HyperDisk . |
| 29 | By the time it reaches the coasts of West Spitsbergen , the largest of the Svalbard group , the current , although much reduced in strength , still has enough energy , when coupled with the summer sun , to warm the sea temperature enough to keep the ice at bay . |
| 30 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |