Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These efforts by foreign offices to influence opinion in part reflected an increasing feeling among sections of the public , visible well before 1914 , that diplomacy was now too important to be left to diplomats . |
| 2 | We have , of course , in addition undertaken a considerable change |
| 3 | He said that ministers had in addition addressed the internal situation in Iraq ; the problems of Afghanistan and Lebanon were also reportedly discussed . |
| 4 | Starfish , the most easily recognisable of the echinoderms have in addition evolved a further reproduction strategy . |
| 5 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 6 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 7 | a relaxation of the regulations on the combinations of single fields in Stage II ( the previous regulation in effect required a 50 : 50 split , now 7/16 acceptable modules was the minimum for one field ( the Course rejected the idea of calling this a major/minor system ) ; |
| 8 | The agreement of 6 March 1946 reached between Jean Sainteny and Ho Chi Minh in effect postponed the basic disagreement between France and the Vietminh . |
| 9 | The Académie Française , that illustrious guardian of the French language , set up by Richelieu in 1635 , last week in effect buried the very reform for which it had voted unanimously nine months earlier . |
| 10 | The trading conditions which we experienced during the year with no recovery in prospect required a radical look at the costs and overheads structure of the UK activities . |
| 11 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |
| 12 | The Vienna art historian Alois Riegl had a profound influence on , among others , Walter Benjamin , who in turn influenced the contemporary textual artists . |
| 13 | As links the streets functioned in two directions : they provided rapid access from the railway stations at the city 's then periphery to the key points at the center ( government buildings , central markets , hospitals , business and entertainment districts ) , and in turn linked the central organs of administration and business ( fire department , riot police , ambulance services , department store deliveries ) with the focal points of the city 's various quarters . |
| 14 | Mendel in fact selected the paired categories of size because he reasoned , correctly , that the mechanisms of inheritance would be most easily revealed in such a trait . |
| 15 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |
| 16 | The car delivered to him had in fact done a considerable mileage . |
| 17 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 18 | In line with Ferreira da Nóbrega 's assurance that Brazil was not imposing a debt moratorium such as had been the case in February 1987 [ see pp. 35823-24 ; for lifting of moratorium see p. 36553 ] , and that payments would resume when the exchange situation permitted , payment was in fact made the following week . |
| 19 | By reserving a right for the landlord to carry out the works in the event of the tenant 's default , the landlord does in fact run a slight risk pursuant to s 4(4) of the Defective Premises Act 1972 but the risk is small compared to the relative advantage of the re-entry provision . |
| 20 | It 's er common ground that in fact er no sealed order was drawn up until very considerably later , the sealed order is in fact dated the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | The Principal responded initially by agreeing to redesignate courses as full-time , and explaining that the Academic Board had come into existence after departments had been constructed to match DipTech requirements , but had in fact gone a long way towards the Council 's view — further than the report on the June quinquennial visit had acknowledged . |
| 22 | ‘ They have in fact taken a big step towards our recommendations , ’ says Professor Higginson . |
| 23 | The Brusilov Offensive , at first so unexpectedly successful , in fact marked a fatal reverse . |
| 24 | Although we know from other sources that Emily Faithfull 's London apprentices and journey-women were in fact paid the full male rate ( though with some amendment of the apprenticeship system ) , it was clear that she and other promoters of the scheme did anticipate that the consequence might be to lower wages in the printing trade . |
| 25 | By degrees the new mores spread from St Petersburg and Moscow to the provincial cities and in time affected the humblest noble homes . |