Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 2 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 3 | ‘ A shower of rain wo n't kill me , ’ she retorted , as that derisive eyebrow lifted again in mocking challenge at her apparent hesitation . |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia ( whose Petroleum Minister Shaikh Hisham Nazer did not attend the meeting himself , on grounds of " exhaustion " ) entered reservations for the opposite reason , to keep its options open for a possible increase in Saudi production above 8,000,000 bpd ( its allocation being 7,880,000 ) . |
| 5 | Its status as written narrative fiction and its function as a means of communication provide it with the wherewithal to participate actively in present-day debates about the future of social institutions . |
| 6 | ‘ What do we do now ? ’ asks a mother in present-day Argentina with her life in tatters around her . |
| 7 | Sandholme and Hive are two hamlets side by side , where many years ago the inhabitants must have lived in blissful seclusion amid a farming community . |
| 8 | They half ran , half dodged , in the general direction of home , playing their ball game , in blissful ignorance of the fact that Anne Hanvey was late because she had gone shopping first . |
| 9 | Here , in blissful ignorance of formidable evidence to the contrary , judges continue ‘ to regard imprisonment as at best an effective antidote to crime , and at worst a justified form of incapacitation , even for petty , persistent offenders ’ ( Downes , 1999 : 203 ) . |
| 10 | The Doctor ducked back behind a stairwell as two sailors walked by , talking loudly and animatedly in blissful ignorance of the intruder . |
| 11 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 12 | Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek . |
| 13 | It made it a cosy scene , an effect enhanced by the glow of several candles placed in tall sconces against the wall . |
| 14 | Any conversation there was was snatched in odd moments of repose . |
| 15 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 16 | Part-time teachers could be found working in odd corners with small groups of children needing extra help . |
| 17 | We think we do things for ourselves and all we do is live in odd corners of their world — under their floors , stealing things . |
| 18 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 19 | More than half of this plutonium is sitting in used fuel-rods from commercial reactors , unusable for anything until it is reprocessed . |
| 20 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 21 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 22 | It consists of a 65,536 element sensor containing two arrays of 32,768 elements arranged in 128 rows by 256 columns . |
| 23 | An extensive 40cm thick bed of syn-diagenetic origin has been worked in Cambrian pelites around the Harlech Dome ( Bennett , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | ROS : ( Dramatically ) It was urgent — a matter of extreme urgency , a royal summons , his very words : official business and no questions asked — lights in the stableyard , saddle up and off headlong and hotfoot across the land , our guides outstripped in breakneck pursuit of our duty ! |
| 25 | She had a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace . |
| 26 | [ … ] Socialization within the family is manifested in subtle cues of things said and things not said , of facial expressions and gestures which arise in the course of day-to-day living within the same dwelling . |
| 27 | The most recent oil paintings blend seemingly amorphous shapes in subtle gradations of green and blue with landscapes of the psyche that have yet to be fathomed . |
| 28 | Throughout this book we have been alert to the possibility of individual organisms ‘ cheating ’ in subtle ways against their social companions . |
| 29 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 30 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |