Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in fact there may be a quality of treatment actually between someone retiring at fifty or fifty-five in terms of the number of years paid into the pension fund , as someone say age seventy . |
| 2 | From this the inference is drawn that what he thus knows can not be physical states , or explicable in terms of such states , for physical states are necessarily publicly accessible . |
| 3 | Molars from mustelid assemblages belong to category 5 in terms of degree of damage ( Fig. 3.21 A-C ) , but category 3 or 4 in terms of proportions of teeth digested ( only 29 per cent for all mustelids combined — see Table 3.12 ) . |
| 4 | The statement tries to come to a view on whether the proposed barrage would be good , bad or indifferent in terms of the flooding problem in the low-lying areas of Cardiff . |
| 5 | People who had attempted suicide were also particularly likely to have experienced an excess of events beyond their own control , which were rated as undesirable , and scaled as major or intermediate in terms of upset . |
| 6 | Try Dark & Lovely in shades of Fiery Auburn or Golden Bronze to really liven your style ! |
| 7 | Earlier this month , a pregnant mare was killed and mutilated in fields near St Austell , Cornwall , and 16 colts had their manes and tails cut in an attack near Weymouth , Dorset . |
| 8 | The Gormenghast passage [ 19 ] represents a fairly extreme position on the scale of opacity , and when we turn , in the following chapters , to a more detailed study of stylistic values , we shall have little occasion to insist on the distinction we have made between the study of style in terms of foregrounding , and that in terms of stylistic variants . |
| 9 | His explanation for the coming of the prison at that time is that this was ‘ the moment when it became understood that it was more efficient and profitable in terms of the economy of power to place people under surveillance than to subject them to some exemplary penalty ’ ( Foucault , 1990 : 39 ) . |
| 10 | Looking at foreign experience , as the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry had also done , it was argued that the trade unions were weak in countries with family allowances and strong in countries without them . |
| 11 | With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost . |
| 12 | However , the criteria of effectiveness will change with the different constituencies : different sub-systems will define effectiveness differently , some in terms of goal attainment ( say the management and the stock holders ) and some in terms of process ( the workers , for example ) . |
| 13 | He was aloof and wooden in dealings with his followers . |
| 14 | This reflects the fact that the very far-reaching social changes that have overtaken the English countryside in recent decades have been rooted first and foremost in changes within the agricultural industry — the decline of the landed estates , the technological revolution in farming , the drift from the land of agricultural workers , and so on . |
| 15 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 16 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
| 17 | d , Alignment of amino-acid sequences of DP-1 and E2F-1 in regions of highest similarity . |
| 18 | While bold designs will be in demand , sportswear styles will become more casual and tonal in terms of silhouette and colouration , to tempt customers . |
| 19 | Dredge beef in flour and brown in batches in oil over high heat in a flameproof casserole . |
| 20 | Gombrich 's book is a fine example of a survey , ambitious in scope , clear-sighted in its emphasis on the history of styles , and judicious in appraisals of the work of individual artists . |
| 21 | and then you do a division of the one into the other and you get a figure that is smaller in the tabloids and larger in broadsheets like The Times and The Financial Times and in periodicals like the Communist and the New Statesman . |
| 22 | Such a burden on the State of Zambia was quite unfair and inappropriate in terms of technical resources and money requirements , so the Director of Civil Aviation invoked an adjunct to the basic rule to the effect that the State of occurrence may delegate the whole or any part of the conducting of the investigation to the State of Registry . |
| 23 | And in the Muslim world , among people at large , the war may become ever more unpopular as it looks increasingly punitive and costly in terms of Arab life . |
| 24 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 25 | Perhaps a diesel engine would be a better alternative as diesel is more readily available and cheaper in countries like Morocco . |
| 26 | When used it can quadruple data throughput , making a 2,400bps modem look like a 9,600bps one , making it faster and cheaper in terms of phone time . |
| 27 | These three-shire points are often significant and powerful in terms of earth energies . |
| 28 | A field of 18 will line-up for the big race after eight horses dropped out , among them Muse and Mole Board , whose chances were considered slim on ground now good to firm and good in places on the hurdles course . |
| 29 | All the figures in the three complete metopes and many in fragments of others turn their faces directly to us , in total disregard of the action they are taking part in , as though smiling at the camera . |
| 30 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |