Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 2 | Far from extending Darwinian gradualism , the scientists who tried to reconstruct the past had returned to a theory of history that assumed that progress took place through a series of distinct episodes , representing the rise and fall of groups that evolved in parallel rather than in sequence . |
| 3 | The Orders refer to the ATs and PS numerically and in relation to key stages , and stipulate commencement dates . |
| 4 | The revised format produced by the Senate is very unlikely to agree with that produced by the House of Representatives , so a joint Senate/House committee is then established to negotiate an agreed document , which the President then has to decide to accept , renegotiate , or veto ( usually in part rather than in its entirety ) . |
| 5 | Much science , however , is well-established , and some philosophers like Hegel have been most interested in this established part rather than in the frontier where conjecture , refutation and research generally is going on . |
| 6 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 7 | Analysts ' presentations happen at the dolphinarium rather than in a boring hotel . |
| 8 | After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . |
| 9 | With the increase of industry and commerce in the nineteenth century , and especially with the development of joint stock companies with limited liability , investment in money rather than in land became the most convenient and popular form . |
| 10 | Joshua Cohen , sitting with his wife and daughter at the back of the synagogue rather than in his usual seat near the Ark of the Law , kept glancing up at everyone as they passed him . |
| 11 | In June 1981 the CPRS reported back that there was indeed a commercial case for electrification but that the programme should be endorsed route by route rather than in some all-embracing fashion . |
| 12 | Thus the peaks and troughs of the two curves match , illustrating the obvious conclusion that military policy-makers should be seeking ways of increasing the deterrent capabilities of their armed forces in the lower-intensity bands at the right-hand half of the spectrum rather than in the higher-intensity bands at the left-hand end . |
| 13 | He explored this theme most famously in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1930 ) and related works , arguing that Calvinistic Protestantism 's individualistic ethos and positive attitude to the accumulation of private wealth provided the key to understanding why capitalism had arisen in the West rather than in Asia where the economic conditions for capitalist development existed to at least an equal extent . |
| 14 | Cytokinin alone or in combination with low levels of auxin promotes ‘ coiling ’ growth , while high concentrations of auxin promote ‘ straight ’ growth . |
| 15 | At one extreme , the consumer could spend nothing in the present period and save all of his present income so that in the future period he can spend as much as Y t + 1 ; + ( 1 + i ) Y t ; that is , his future income plus his saved present income plus interest . |
| 16 | As you will have probably read from your QT notes , we need to have accurate information available in the office , ready to publicise classes for the start of the new season , and this year they are being put on the Word Processor so that in future only alterations need be notified . |
| 17 | He accepted that the function of the court was to construe the actual words enacted by Parliament so that in no circumstances could the court attach to words a meaning that they were incapable of bearing . |
| 18 | IAT 's Air Tournament International 92 is being held at the A&AEE Boscombe Down on the 13th and 14th , and promises more than 400 aircraft taking part statically and in each day 's eight-hour flying display . |
| 19 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 20 | It is not necessary to show exclusive reliance so that in the Cammell Laird case ( 1934 ) , notwithstanding that the buyers laid down detailed specifications as to the propellers made by the sellers , there was still , in Lord Macmillan 's words , " an important margin within which the [ seller 's ] skill and judgment had scope for exercise " ( p419 ) . |
| 21 | money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in . |
| 22 | But he was trained in action rather than in comfort . |
| 23 | This is appropriate enough for highly repetitive routine tasks because , as mentioned earlier , the operator is probably proceeding with little conscious attention and the limitation on performance is in the speed of the action rather than in the informational control . |
| 24 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 25 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 26 | This is , however , a deficiency in modern academic scholarship rather than in the paper-based systems themselves . |
| 27 | Sergeant-Major Riley was put in charge , and after an altercation with Mayne , Stirling was forced to admit that the Ulsterman 's strengths lay in fighting the enemy rather than in dealing with paperwork . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , ‘ mental illness ’ and ‘ mental impairment ’ are dealt with one chapter rather than in the chapter on disablism . |
| 29 | The client must proceed at the speed of the tape rather than in their own time . |
| 30 | He often sleeps in the study rather than in the big bedroom on the second floor , where mine is . |