Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |
| 2 | The law , rather , reflects social changes in that it permits marriages that have in practice effectively ended to be legally dissolved . |
| 3 | In conclusion , the ACE/DD genotype is a new potent risk factor for myocardial infarction in middle-aged men , particularly in subjects normally considered to be at low risk . |
| 4 | The ACE/ID polymorphism seems to be a potent risk factor of coronary heart disease in subjects formerly considered to be at low risk according to common criteria . |
| 5 | Not only was ‘ Schtoom ’ a resounding dancefloor success , it also served to galvanise a latent collective of creative club forces in Scotland simply waiting to be led by example . |
| 6 | Why do words receive so much consideration in dispositions widely held to be free of form ? |
| 7 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 8 | Living in dreams e.g. having to be fancied by every man around |
| 9 | The presence of Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique now appeared to be the principal obstacle to a ceasefire , with the MNR demanding their complete withdrawal as a precondition for any such agreement . |
| 10 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 11 | A famous letter written by Fulbert of Chartres to William V of Aquitaine rehearsed the duties of the vassal in terms deliberately chosen to be easily remembered by the warriors to whom it was to be read : |
| 12 | This is most obvious in the case of social class-based cultures , but the more recent resurgence of Scottish and Welsh nationalism and the ‘ troubles ’ in Northern Ireland have underlined that the dynamics of regional and ‘ sub-national ’ cultures in Britain also need to be understood in the context of material inequalities and patterns of cultural domination , subordination and conflict . |
| 13 | Thus industries in Britain today tend to be clustered together . |
| 14 | Anyone running a major company in Britain today needs to be keenly aware of the international scene in Laing 's opinion . |
| 15 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 16 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 17 | Patients in ICUs often need to be sedated and so are unaware of the nursing care they receive , but those with Guillain-Barré syndrome usually remain alert . |
| 18 | The use of subordination as a syntactic device for marking given information may be a common feature of information structure in many languages : for instance , Maynard ( 1981 ) suggests that given information in Japanese also tends to be subordinate . |
| 19 | Workers in the pharmaceutical industry and in laboratories obviously have to be knowledgeable and skilled to avoid the many chemical hazards which can threaten the safety of their environment . |
| 20 | Sanctioning strategies in fact generally tend to be associated with incidents of deviance . |
| 21 | Er and Stansted in fact now appears to be completely out of proportion in terms of a number of night flights er it is expected to cater for compared to both Heathrow and Stansted . |
| 22 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 23 | TNT , which operates twice nightly British Aerospace 146-QT jet freighter flights — and some times a third aircraft — to and from its European air hub at Cologne , Germany , in fact currently claims to be experiencing a ‘ substantial increase ’ in traffic at Liverpool . |
| 24 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |