Example sentences of "in [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 2 | Inside the 13th century castle , there is a new condensing boiler — the highest efficiency system available — with a back up boiler in case of extremely cold weather . |
| 3 | Previous efforts resulted in removal of more than 17,000 tons of scrap from the North Slope , while earning more than $300,000 for the Prudhoe Bay Environmental Alliance , composed of BP , ARCO , Exxon and other oil field producers , as well as their contractors . |
| 4 | The move is occasioned by the fact that the 1982–3 pool allocations represent a cut in income of about 9 per cent for the polytechnics and as much as 15 per cent for the colleges of higher education , the difference between them being ascribed by the DES to the fact that it has to base its view on cuts on earlier data and the polytechnics have reduced their unit costs more sharply than the colleges in interim years . |
| 5 | Both parameters have been found to be grossly impaired in subgroups of faecally incontinent patients . |
| 6 | It called for " significant and immediate reductions in emissions of industrially generated greenhouse gases , particularly carbon dioxide " . |
| 7 | Tony Adewumi , 53 , clocked up huge amounts of overtime , often putting in shifts of up to 14 hours to help him pay of debts , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 8 | A general inverted-U function has been described which suggests that memory may be best for intermediate levels of subjective risk , being impaired in cases of either unusually high or low subjective risk . |
| 9 | Although legal intervention is often seen as a means of last resort in cases of extremely persistent truancy , the problem may , by then , have become too firmly entrenched . |
| 10 | However , in cases of specially significant development , local authorities should be able to require an ‘ impact study ’ , and in these cases the time-limit should be six months . |
| 11 | This has been done in assessment of moderately toxic adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer . |
| 12 | The circuit shown in Fig. 2 ( based on a comparator ) will , however , detect changes in resistance of less than 0.1 ohm . |
| 13 | Moores , Weiss and Goodwin ( 1973 ) had slightly better findings with increase in comprehension of up to 61 per cent . |
| 14 | I remain , firmly in defence of happily promiscuous hominids . |
| 15 | This consists in part of literally ‘ moving mountains ’ in order to fill up the water meadow . |
| 16 | From these observations , Hofmann and I proposed that plumes consist in part of deeply subducted oceanic crust and sediment . |
| 17 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 18 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 19 | The passions aroused in civil disobedience usually expressed themselves before they were spent in acts of more conventional rebellion . |
| 20 | May connects impotence with the loss of a sense of significance , and the corruption he has in mind is the sort that erupts in acts of apparently senseless and arbitrary violence , especially in large urban populations . |
| 21 | Pupils too might be included in discussions of where the school is going . |
| 22 | The preoccupation with violence was taken to absurd lengths in discussions of why disorder failed to reach its anticipated level . |
| 23 | The climate was not improved by the exposure in March of further North Korean tunnelling under the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) separating the two countries . |
| 24 | Especially in accounts of how one sibling became the main carer for a parent , there is a sense of people guarding their own position , lest too much should be expected of them . |
| 25 | We have found that volunteers have no difficulty in living in such a unit , either alone or in groups of up to four . |
| 26 | The dolphins have often formed up in groups of up to 3000 when they reach Izu , and they are driven into the narrow inlets of Suruga Bay . |
| 27 | The State Department said : ‘ Many people were killed in groups of up to 50 at a time . ’ |
| 28 | Groove-billed anis live in groups of up to four pairs . |
| 29 | They have developed an intensive 6-week pre-ski training programme ( £23 per session ) for all levels of fitness and skiing ability , specially designed and supervised in groups of up to six , featuring weight training , aerobic machines , flexibility and plyometrics . |
| 30 | A prey species , such as the bleak or dace , is put in tanks either singly or in groups of up to 20 ; the groups will form schools . |