Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A shower of rain wo n't kill me , ’ she retorted , as that derisive eyebrow lifted again in mocking challenge at her apparent hesitation . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The Doctor ducked back behind a stairwell as two sailors walked by , talking loudly and animatedly in blissful ignorance of the intruder . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Such modification involves specifying some form of propagation mechanism which converts serially uncorrelated shifts in aggregate demand into serially correlated movements in aggregate output . |
| 13 | The model does not enable us to examine the effects of changes in aggregate demand on both output and prices . |
| 14 | In such circumstances the achievement of the prices objective may necessitate a reduction in aggregate demand through cuts in government expenditure and increased taxes . |
| 15 | But in these circumstances , claim Keynesians , it is fiscal policy that is causing the resulting increase in aggregate demand through its effect on people 's real incomes . |
| 16 | It does not rely for its efficacy on the government having access to better information for , as we have said , firms may well be able to anticipate the rise in aggregate demand between period 1 and 2 . |
| 17 | This concerns the division of a given change in aggregate demand between price responses and output responses . |
| 18 | This improvement in the supply-side leads to an increase in aggregate demand by increasing real purchasing power , increasing investment , and improving the competitiveness of the EC relative to the rest of the world . |
| 19 | It is important to realize that firms may have enough information at the end of period 1 to predict the rise in aggregate demand in period 2 , so that the rise in aggregate demand from period 1 to period 2 is anticipated at the end of period 1 . |
| 20 | But this implies that a single random increase in aggregate demand in the current period can set up a serially correlated movement or boom in real output over a number of subsequent periods . |
| 21 | It is important to realize that firms may have enough information at the end of period 1 to predict the rise in aggregate demand in period 2 , so that the rise in aggregate demand from period 1 to period 2 is anticipated at the end of period 1 . |
| 22 | Any increase in aggregate demand in such an economy will hit a capacity constraint in the successful regions long before this happens in the disadvantaged areas , leading to inflationary pressure in the former . |
| 23 | The mechanism through which the real wage rate adjusts to variations in aggregate demand in Keynes 's labour market analysis is ignored altogether . |
| 24 | In the short term , the government can use monetary policy to restrict the growth in aggregate demand in one of three ways : ( a ) reducing money supply directly , ( b ) reducing the demand for money by raising interest rates , or ( c ) rationing credit . |
| 25 | Taking the period 1979 — 85 , and dividing it into two parts , we find that in the years since 1983 the differences in surviving birth of infants born to parents in social class 1 , compared to those whose parents are in social classes IV and V , has widened . |
| 26 | Most of these , if asked , would have been unwilling to support any increase in attainment testing or in subjective assessment of character , but their expressed unease about testing could help to feed that of others , who would then fall back on what had ‘ worked ’ in the past . |
| 27 | In the final analysis , the scientific estimate of the intensity of light , for example , is rooted in subjective experience of brightness . |
| 28 | The death instincts provide the negative energy which is used in destructive aggression between human beings , either between individuals or between groups and nations . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 30 | Henley 's M P , Michael Heseltine in fiery form against Labour at the Tory Party Conference . |