Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 2 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
| 3 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 4 | So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms . |
| 5 | Knox , like Luther before him , recoiled in horror from low-born violence ; the godly commonalty to whom he had appealed in 1558 now became the ‘ rascal multitude ’ . |
| 6 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 7 | A year of lessons and sulking resulted in eight badly played bars of ‘ Little Donkey ’ , and all four of us agreed that the instrument was superfluous to requirements . |
| 8 | MEMBERS of Montgomeryshire District Council 's environmental health committee will meet in private tomorrow to consider an officer 's report on alleged trespass on council land adjacent to River Cain , Llanfyllin . |
| 9 | MONTGOMERY councillors will be meeting in private tomorrow to consider a report on unauthorised deposit of controlled waste at the Severn Farm Industrial Estate , Welshpool . |
| 10 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 11 | In Hanover , Sewell was introduced to Professor Havemann , whose plans to visit England in 1777 and in 1796 unfortunately came to nothing ( the missing link , possibly , in a chain that might have set the Hanover veterinary school , founded in 1788 , rather than Lyons or Alfort as an immediate model for the London Veterinary College ) . |
| 12 | In 1945 , the Miles Aircraft Company was developing a supersonic experimental aircraft , the M 52 , but lack of basic data on supersonic conditions led to the decision in 1948 not to risk a pilot 's life flying it until more was known about the compressibility of air , or the sound barrier . |
| 13 | The following resolution passed by the Bournemouth Congress in 1971 also illustrates this new mood : This Congress demands according to the rights of citizenship in a democratic society : a ) That whenever legislation is proposed concerning the deaf , the deaf themselves as represented by the British Deaf Association should have full consultation and adequate participation at all levels ; b ) That in the implementation of all such legislation the deaf should be given every opportunity for active participation ; c ) That there should be adequate representation by deaf persons on governing bodies of all Associations and schools concerned with the welfare , employment and education of the deaf . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart . |
| 15 | With hands across the world , join also in that well loved song , AULD LANG SYNE . |
| 16 | They are alike in that both form part of a single entity-identifier ; this is reflected in surface syntax by the fact that they form part of the same noun phrase as their head noun . |
| 17 | Goals and objectives are similar in that both provide a direction and a target for company or departmental activities . |
| 18 | The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software . |
| 19 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 20 | And why had he said , ‘ Poor Ellie , ’ in that odiously knowing way ? |
| 21 | It is more often the poor conditions that many young mothers are forced to live in that negatively affect their lives , rather than simply their age or the experience of being a mother . |
| 22 | They do n't believe in that anymore do they ? |
| 23 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 24 | Anger did n't suit her friendly snub face , making her seem out of place in that aloofly cut suit and he realised he was mentally taking it off her . |
| 25 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
| 26 | But it was in that beautifully designed and equipped , but comfortable and homely kitchen at Martyr 's Cottage that she had found her healing . |
| 27 | Derek Mountfield and Kevin Gage were horribly out of touch ; the scalpel tongues went for Chris Price in that peculiarly cutting way reserved for baldies playing badly ; and the introduction of Ormondroyd , the forward built like a Handsworth tower block , brought cruelly sarcastic cheers . |
| 28 | The design of the man-machine interface ( MMI ) or the human-computer interface ( HCI ) or more simply human interfaces ( HI ) remains one of the most difficult design problems but a crucial one in that poorly designed interfaces will wreck the performance of any system . |
| 29 | But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring . |
| 30 | There is something in that actually charging a percent it gives you an option that you could do something which would mean that the option was n't cancelled . |