Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world in search of scientific novelties were in vogue that season as they had never been before . |
2 | Americans successfully resisted a push towards cluster housing and common open space when those ideas were in vogue 20 years ago . |
3 | Dolphins are very much in vogue these days . |
4 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
5 | Often sand and gravel , but in Champagne alluvial deposits may also include chalky pebbles and concentrations of chalk debris cemented into convex banks several metres thick , and younger alluvial soils may contain chalk clay . |
6 | In Champagne this is normally countered by the selection of highly resident rootstock varieties and through the choice of sites where the chalk is thinly covered by drift or where man has added rich sandy or clayey lignite soils to the surface . |
7 | However , in case VI , sex is negatively related to one of the variables ( absenteeism ) and positively to the other ( job type ) . |
8 | Had the attention of the court been drawn to Article 119 of the EEC Treaty and the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case 43/75 Defrenne v. Sabena ( 1976 ) ICR 547 , I have no doubt that , consistently with statements made by Lord Denning in previous cases , they would have construed section 6(4) so as not to make it inconsistent with Article 119 . ’ |
9 | Thus , in its judgment in Case 6/64 Costa v. ENEL , the Court held that , by contrast with ordinary international treaties , the EEC Treaty had created its own legal system which , on the entry into force of the Treaty , became an integral part of the legal systems of the Member States . |
10 | But hang on to your water and electricity shares for the winter , just in case economic recovery once again takes longer than the boffins say . |
11 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
12 | Tom laughed absently , then continued to muse aloud , ‘ Dr Greene says the baby is possibly going to be macrosomic , but at this stage that 's not a problem and he 'll monitor closely in case early delivery is indicated . ’ |
13 | As to the actual transfer itself , the Court had already held in Case 105/84 , Mikkelsen[1985] ECR 2639 that ‘ the protection which the Directive is intended to guarantee is however redundant where the person concerned decides of his own accord not to continue the employment relationship with the new employer after the transfer … ’ and so resigns or terminates the employment by agreement from the date of the transfer ( point 16 ) . |
14 | Just in case real travel was in order , I took my passport ( real name ) and spare driving licence . |
15 | Is not it a strong strategic interest of the United Kingdom to maintain an effective and comprehensive defence industrial base , in case international circumstances change ? |
16 | The reason I ask these things is that we will have to look ahead in case certain difficulties present themselves . ’ |
17 | Erm , I think Chair , it , there is a need obviously for all committees to be realistic , and erm , that certainly is our intention within those , but I would say again , it leads me to believe that you should keep a reasonable er , committee contingency in case certain difficulties present themselves in terms of those additional er , pressures and requirements . |
18 | After a time , Agnes said thoughtfully : ‘ That boy 's no fool , keeping a nice big ace in the hole in case Six wo n't play ball . |
19 | I 'm f frightened of ben move down in case all the wiring comes off . . |
20 | I am afraid to talk , afraid to open my mouth in case all the dammed-up love words that I am feeling flood out of it . |
21 | It is in fact advisable to name more than one Executor in case one of them dies before you . |
22 | As Gatfield points out , ‘ I ca n't work on a host of acts who I am vaguely interested in , just in case one day they come up with something exciting . |
23 | ‘ The thing is , ’ Jackie explained , ‘ none of us has much , so we ought to put what we have together in case one of us ever needs anything important . |
24 | I prefer low-wattage heater/stats , especially in a cold environment , in case one packs up . |
25 | ‘ In case one of them 's from the kidnappers . ’ |
26 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
27 | in case one of us wants cigs |
28 | In case one of these does n't work . |
29 | I probably would have worked out well , I 'll be the spare man , I 'll need four men working on five lathes , because I 'll need a spare lathe in case one falls over , so I can keep four running , I 'll need four men in case one of them 's sick or one , when they go on holidays I can fill in , so we can always get four lathes working . |
30 | My Dad come in , there 's me running out while my Dad 's by the door in case one of them jumped I 'm so scared of spiders I hate them ! |