Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 2 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 3 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 4 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |
| 5 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 6 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 7 | With settled agriculture the situation is somewhat different in that land becomes communal property , especially because of the need to defend it from ‘ other tribes ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ But I think this time it 's different in that teams will have to score two goals to beat us because we 're always going to get one . |
| 9 | The situation here was different in that government policy was to encourage full-time farming although there were some examples of participation in off-farm jobs . |
| 10 | ‘ This recession is different in that people at the top are being affected as well , ’ says Price Jamieson director Andrew Swift . |
| 11 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 12 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |
| 13 | Bill Wyman was no different in that respect to any other man of his age . |
| 14 | So we are totally different in that respect . |
| 15 | Baden is not so different in that respect . |
| 16 | Now the other thing about , about the meeting is erm , we sometimes arrange for sort of special refreshments or something different in that line , it 's at Ann 's house , erm do you want , do you want us to do anything about that Ann or ? |
| 17 | The actual constitution of the eyes is different in all species . |
| 18 | For it is implied that we can not meaningfully claim that a given object might be different in certain respects without becoming a different individual . |
| 19 | He was so different in real life , ’ he maintained . |
| 20 | The requirement of reasonableness under the earlier Act was different in two respects , First the onus of proof was upon the buyer to show that the exemption clause did not pass the test , whereas under the 1977 Act the onus is on the seller to show that the clause passes the test . |
| 21 | This has shown that the language which adults address to young children is different in many ways from the language of adults talking to one another . |
| 22 | But the American experience had been different in many ways . |
| 23 | They 're very different in many ways , no doubt . |
| 24 | Their scope and role were very different in many ways but , as he argues , there were more basic similarities than differences . |
| 25 | The rocks of the oceanic crust are different in many respects from the ‘ average ’ rocks of the continents : they are black , dense rocks , usually very fine-grained , contain much less silica ( less than 50 per cent ) , and are remarkably uniform , even monotonous in appearance . |
| 26 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 27 | Black music was different in many respects from almost all other Western music of the time . |
| 28 | But then , the region of Appenzell is different in many respects from other parts of Switzerland . |
| 29 | The structures of the two programs are different in many respects and where they are similar this is the result of coincidence only or because they are constrained by the function — no infringement of copyright . |
| 30 | ‘ This season has been different in many respects . |