Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 2 | In contrast , where calculations are carried out to assess the comparative importance of differences in reproductive success versus survival for each sex , only variation in mate number may be included ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) — though measures of the intensity of sexual selection as conceived by Darwin should also include variation due to differences in mate quality , which may be an important cause of variation in lifetime breeding success both among males and females in monogamous species . |
| 3 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 4 | However , competition between males can also be intense in monogamous species ( Lack , 1954 ; Kleiman , 1977 ) and data are not yet available which would permit a meaningful comparison between the two groups of species . |
| 5 | In fact , it is unsafe to assume that the intensity of direct competition between males should necessarily be reduced in monogamous species . |
| 6 | The most likely explanation is that the factors determining breeding success in males and females tend to be most similar in monogamous species and most different in highly polygynous ones . |
| 7 | Competition among males for mates is stronger in polygamous than in monogamous species . |
| 8 | Moreover , sex differences in the length of effective reproductive lifespans and in the influence of age on breeding success are likely to be more pronounced in polygynous species than in monogamous ones . |
| 9 | Variation in reproductive success should be greater in males than females in polygynous species but similar in the two sexes in monogamous ones . |
| 10 | Electrons are like spouses in monogamous countries ; there is either one or none . |
| 11 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 12 | Currently it is among the 10 per cent most solvent UK corporations in PAS-score terms . |
| 13 | First , both in his childhood home and in his education in Moravian schools , he was imbued with a deep and warm Christian piety which never left him ; but at the same time he reacted against what he felt to be a too strict insistence by his father and his teachers on doctrinal principles . |
| 14 | The effort will be conducted by the support organisations of the member companies and will be managed by Symbologic Corp , based in Redmond , which claims expertise in customer-support technology . |
| 15 | The deep voice was rich in mocking laughter but , underneath , the anger remained . |
| 16 | Mistress Philippa tightened her mouth and Athelstan cursed ; he did not wish his interrogation to end in mocking laughter . |
| 17 | Travis McKenna inclined his head in mocking acknowledgement . |
| 18 | In mocking fashion the fable puts stress on two outstanding characteristics of anthropological field research : a central concern with kinship and marriage and an emphasis on gaining understanding through participant observation and the intimate , first-hand , use of vernacular concepts . |
| 19 | ‘ A shower of rain wo n't kill me , ’ she retorted , as that derisive eyebrow lifted again in mocking challenge at her apparent hesitation . |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia 's Oil Minister , Hisham Nazer , emphatically ruled out any cuts in Saudi output , declaring before the meeting that " nobody has to approve what Saudi Arabia produces " . |
| 21 | A Saudi statement attributed the incident to fighting between rival Bedouin in Saudi territory . |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia ( whose Petroleum Minister Shaikh Hisham Nazer did not attend the meeting himself , on grounds of " exhaustion " ) entered reservations for the opposite reason , to keep its options open for a possible increase in Saudi production above 8,000,000 bpd ( its allocation being 7,880,000 ) . |
| 23 | Not a large amount in Saudi terms , but enough ; l per cent of every invoice paid out to contractors by the Ministry . |
| 24 | We are familiar with the spectacle of its loss , in pre-war Germany , for example , and in present-day Russia and China ; and so we are the more determined to preserve it for ourselves . |
| 25 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 26 | We will examine the history of delinquency in an attempt to correct the notion , or perhaps myth , that such behaviour is a uniquely modern phenomenon that indicates a degeneration of standards of behaviour in present-day society . |
| 27 | The principal voice of Amalgamemnon is Mira Enketei , a university lecturer in the humanities who is on the verge of being made redundant due to the seeming irrelevance of her field in present-day society . |
| 28 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 29 | It is not necessary to be unduly selective to find indications of pre-velar and pre-nasal raising of /a/ , and polysyllabic lowering of Ε/,; as in present-day Ulster English . |
| 30 | The spelling variants for OE ( ht ) overlap with spelling variants for other forms ( from different sources in OE ) , just as phonological variants in present-day studies are found to overlap . |