Example sentences of "in [adj] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 2 | The Welsh-medium schools provide a first-class education and I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that Welsh is being taught in eight out of 10 primary schools in Wales and in nine out of 10 secondary schools . |
| 3 | Produces the leading brand of Scotch whisky in eight out of the top fifteen markets in the world . |
| 4 | The men in the technical crew , unpaid , were earning their way by filming the fiesta for the B.B.C. The Bedouins , whom Cecil cared for and saw to be poor , were being paid in private out of Cecil 's own pocket . |
| 5 | This idea was put forward by Levy and Reid ( 1976 ; 1978 ) who employed tachistoscopic verbal and spatial tasks and found in 70 out of 73 subjects that the direction of presumed cerebral lateralisation was predicted by handedness and hand posture . |
| 6 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 7 | The Centers for Disease Control now reports evidence of hantavirus infection in 12 out of 42 deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) trapped around the homes of infected people , which suggests that this illness may have a rodent vector . |
| 8 | We share costs , but the cost of living is very low in this out of the way corner of Greece . |
| 9 | Ryan stood in the doorway , half in half out , his expression as horrified as she knew her own must be . |
| 10 | This substance was scheduled as a poison at the end of World War I. By 1914 , Ethel Elderton concluded that abortion was common in 26 out of 104 registration districts north of the Humber . |
| 11 | Copyhold was by inheritance in thirteen out of twenty-five Buckinghamshire manors surveyed in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary ; on two there were lifeholds only , and at three either a term of years or tenure at will ; six had a medley of all modes . |
| 12 | Rushing Wild , successful in six out of eight points , has already had experience of Cheltenham , having sauntered away with the Foxhunters Chase last March by 25 lengths . |
| 13 | Although lay delegates had been tried before — in the 1290s , for example — the frequency of their presence in six out of the last eleven assemblies of Edward III 's reign added a new ( and continuing ) dimension to convocation . |
| 14 | In the 1970s a series of controlled trials compared the drug with other neuroleptics , and whereas no other drug has ever been shown to be more effective than chlorpromazine ( Largactil ) , clozapine was found to be so in six out of thirteen studies . |
| 15 | A survey carried out by trading standards officers in Warwickshire has found significant traces of pesticides in six out of 16 samples of food labelled as organic on sale in retail outlets . |
| 16 | political and economic conditions abroad which has declined the constraint on exports in six out of , out of er the eleven regions , you see no evidence of any impending constraints likely to trip up the recovery . |
| 17 | The UNP won control in 156 out of 194 village councils , 26 out of 32 urban councils , and nine out of 10 municipal councils including the capital , Colombo . |
| 18 | In 86 per cent of referrals ( 43 cases ) there was legitimate reason to investigate even if in 10 out of the 43 cases it was judged that the public concern was inaccurate . |
| 19 | According to their results , in 10 out of 16 patients with breast as the predicted primary site the prediction was incorrect . |
| 20 | In 10 out of 12 EC countries , lower taxes mean that the same bottle is sold for less : |
| 21 | The outcome meant that the SPD was now in government ( either alone or as the dominant partner ) in 10 out of the 16 Länder . |
| 22 | The result is shown in Fig.2 ; in three out of five cases a high peak is present at over 95% confidence . |
| 23 | The emphasis was on the termination of parental rights in favour of long-term fostering and adoption ; Tunstill comments that , in three out of the four case histories in the guide to the assumption of parental rights , the only possibility of a ‘ happy ending ’ was by means of such steps . |
| 24 | It 's estimated that 80% of burglaries are committed by casual opportunists , and in three out of ten thefts the burglar does n't have to use force to gain entry — open windows and unlocked doors make life very easy for him . |
| 25 | Tonight 's opponent is the unrated South African Lindi Memani , unbeaten in his last twelve fights and only defeated in three out of twenty four . |
| 26 | The Cadillac Automobile Company was formed in 902 out of the remnants of one of Henry Ford 's early attempts at building cars , and the company 's backers turned to Leland for help . |
| 27 | Coventry Workshop , one independent research , education and advice centre , founded in 1975 out of the Home Office-sponsored Community Development Project , tried to service a range of community and trade union organisations . |
| 28 | Woods reports that the shortfall density algorithm is superior to the shortfall method alone , returning the correct interpretation in 5 out of 10 trials . |
| 29 | Mel hit a bit of a purple patch in the 1st Div if I recall … scoring in 5 out of 6 games or summink . |
| 30 | From 1559 until 1584 , years of almost unbroken peace , direct taxation from laity and clergy rose above £20,000 in sixteen out of the twenty-three years for which figures are available . |