Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , returning from Chartres to Paris in 1141 , sought him out in order to facilitate his own preparation for teaching ; he was thenceforward in close touch with Adam until his own departure from Paris in 1146 . |
| 2 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 3 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 4 | As in the Certain Standards , among the many audio.visual items to be included were stereographic materials , apparently in plentiful supply at the time . |
| 5 | They were basically in standard configuration with these special modifications : blind flying curtain with quick release ; a longitudinal attitude instrument to monitor pitch attitude ; wiring provisions for the Failure Simulation Panel which allowed discreet introduction of twenty-nine failure by the instructor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show . |
| 8 | Cook the chicken gently in olive oil for 8 minutes . |
| 9 | Remove the thigh meat from the marinade , dry it , then brown gently in olive oil with aromatics such as sliced onion or leek , and celery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This discovery , of proactive or retroactive interference in memory formation , has led to the hunt , strongly backed by a number of pharmaceutical companies , for drugs which might improve human learning or memory , especially in elderly people with conditions like Alzheimer 's — the so-called smart drugs . |
| 15 | Many of these are quite unavoidable , commonly used words , especially in technical circles like computing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Engels , especially in subsequent editions of The Origin , was keen to incorporate new evidence for contemporary practises of what he believed was group marriage . |
| 20 | Contrastive exercises where distinct structures are brought into contrast , especially in common areas of confusion ; |
| 21 | Some cold walls , especially in old houses with solid walls , draw atmospheric moisture to them , rather as windows do . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | government spending to be cut by 5 per cent annually in real terms for five years ; |
| 25 | A wanderer from Siberia , occurring annually in western Europe in some numbers , mainly in autumn . |
| 26 | They are caught annually in vast numbers in Brazil . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Under the 1974 Constitution the office of President of the Collective Presidency ( head of state ) rotates annually in fixed sequence among the members of the Collective State Presidency , to which one member is elected by each republic and province for a four-year term . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When deuterium replaces hydrogen in water we have what is known as ‘ heavy water ’ , which occurs naturally in small amounts in sea water . |