Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 2 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |
| 3 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure that once in a while we can be in the same kitchen without explosions occurring , do n't you agree ? |
| 5 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 6 | If you are the guest , then you can take refuge in the thought that once in a while you need a break , and you can always make it up tomorrow by being particularly good . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 8 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 9 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 10 | It sounds rather weird , and so in a way it is , although it finds a natural expression in terms of the quantum mechanical formalism . |
| 11 | This is unfair , for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen . |
| 12 | And we get songs that people send into the office and once in a while we 'll come up with something that somebody just sends us . |
| 13 | Without them , as the White Paper ’ Custody , Care and Justice ’ says , ’ there can be no assurance that resources ’ — which means money , and I wish that people would say ’ money ’ rather than ’ resources ’ — ’ devoted to the prison service will be used effectively and efficiently in a way which fulfils the obligations of the prison service . ’ |
| 14 | We also have a public sector borrowing requirement of heroic proportions , and even in a recession we have a huge balance of payments problem . |
| 15 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 16 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 17 | And he said what they 're tr er what they want to do is erm pick out a word pick out a word and then in a conversation they would fi find out how many meanings to that one word . |
| 18 | What I want you to do is shout out as many features of the plan as you can think of , and then in a minute we 'll look at changing them into benefits . |
| 19 | From that site too come the Callanish eagles whose strength is not in flight , or size , or speed or skill but rather in a spirit whose power has been forget through time . ’ |
| 20 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 21 | The scope of debate is limited or shifted over time in particular directions , but always in a direction which consolidates power into more permanent forms , which in time may become almost invisible to citizens , accepted as uncontroversial , ‘ natural ’ features of the landscape . |
| 22 | But even in a Lutheranism which has had married priests for four centuries , the notion that the mere presence of a woman acting as priest pollutes the sanctuary can still be a powerful belief . |
| 23 | It gave us a chance to see what he was like as a person , because normally in an interview you 've got thirty to forty-five minutes in which to make a decision about a person.That can be very difficult . |
| 24 | When we had knocked against the nylon walls as we got up , snowflakes dropped on us , while above in a cave our six Zanskari porters and Dorje , our Ladakhi cook , were already crouched around a wood fire . |
| 25 | ‘ I had thought of getting a young man , ’ said Edwin , ‘ though perhaps in a way it 's hardly a job for a man . |