Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 2 | There is no consistent air movement , and the seeds are drifting outwards in all directions from the tree . |
| 3 | MANKIND 'S eternal quest for knowledge about the Universe has been fired afresh in recent years by the spectacular revolution brought about by new astronomy and space technology . |
| 4 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 5 | It has proved excellent in South Africa since 1903 , especially in cooler areas with a higher rainfall where the Brahman and Africander are not successful . |
| 6 | Then , as with reproductive isolation , changed habits can initiate permanent adaptive changes in structure , especially in higher animals by entailing changes in the conditions of foetal maturation . |
| 7 | A staggering 5.1 million exam papers were taken — 65,000 more than last year — and the numbers getting top grades are the highest ever , especially in key subjects like modern languages and English . |
| 8 | The myth that homosexuality is ‘ the white man 's disease ’ persists today in some black communities , especially in certain kinds of political radicalism and nationalism . |
| 9 | The other dimension , he argues , is found in an everyday life which was to some extent in harmony with the market economy — in consumption , in fashion and especially in changing forms of plebeian drinking . |
| 10 | It would provide 20,000 temporary jobs per month , especially in rural areas at times when there was less work , and would include a low-cost housing programme , a national food programme , an urban community development programme , and a project to bring help to eastern El Salvador , which he said had suffered most in the last 10 years . |
| 11 | Many of these are quite unavoidable , commonly used words , especially in technical circles like computing . |
| 12 | This kind of genitive occurs especially in prepositional adjuncts of place : Old St Paul 's was burnt down in 1666 ; Harrod 's , the butcher 's . |
| 13 | Other authors were confronted with a much more puzzling radiological picture , especially in early stages of the disease : a nodular aspect or irregular narrowing of the oesophagus due to submucosal tumours was mentioned most often and interpreted as either peptic stricture , radiation stricture , or external compression . |
| 14 | Hypokalaemia may increase the predisposition to lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions , especially in hypoxic patients with airways obstruction ; serum potassium concentrations should therefore be monitored in every patient with established or suspected theophylline toxicity , and hypokalaemia should be corrected . |
| 15 | Engels , especially in subsequent editions of The Origin , was keen to incorporate new evidence for contemporary practises of what he believed was group marriage . |
| 16 | Thus the routine assessment of the colon in outpatients when an alternative cause for anaemia has been found must be questioned , especially in younger patients without a family history or previous colonic polyps . |
| 17 | Contrastive exercises where distinct structures are brought into contrast , especially in common areas of confusion ; |
| 18 | Some cold walls , especially in old houses with solid walls , draw atmospheric moisture to them , rather as windows do . |
| 19 | At the margins of the practice , and especially in unfamiliar kinds of work , these variable reactions between the signal and actual responses are quite common . |
| 20 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 21 | Secondly , to stimulate employer alliances for purposes of market regulation , especially in those industries with competitive product markets as a means of regulating wages and thereby helping to stabilise market conditions . |
| 22 | It is even more difficult to achieve at grassroots level , especially in those minefields with which both parties are well provided in countries such as Ukraine . |
| 23 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 24 | Especially in these days of violence . |
| 25 | For example , Tarrant ( 1987 ) has shown that while world cereal yields are increasing , those for Africa are actually declining and exhibit increased annual variability especially in semi-arid regions like the savanna . |
| 26 | No changes between groups were seen at day 3 , although levels decreased by about sixfold in all groups between days 3 and 7 ( Fig 7 ) . |
| 27 | government spending to be cut by 5 per cent annually in real terms for five years ; |
| 28 | They are caught annually in vast numbers in Brazil . |
| 29 | On the other hand , as a state the island would be entitled to receive US$3,600 million annually in federal funds for Medicare and other social welfare programmes . |
| 30 | In this way , the great ideological divide between the two parties over their interpretation of " Revolution Principles " was acted out annually in public rituals throughout the country . |