Example sentences of "in the event [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody thought our train would be ambushed , but in the event we got out safely . |
| 2 | We understand that we do not satisfy stringent criteria laid down by the Charity Commission for formal registration , and in the event we would prefer to avoid the substantial cost of registration and the administrative burden that would accompany it . |
| 3 | In the event we 've achieved fourteen hundred , nearly fourteen hundred , and that follows on the six hundred redundancies we had last year . |
| 4 | In the event we agreed to only save seventy nine thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The great idea had been to hold Saturday Classes open also to members of the Women 's League and the Keep Fit Association , but in the event we encountered from our Sister Organisations a most unsisterly and almost total absence of support . |
| 6 | The overall expectation was that the Conservatives would win and in the event they did so with rather more comfort than the polls had tended to suggest . |
| 7 | Catholics and Protestants united to raise over 4000 troops for the English defence , although in the event they were not needed . |
| 8 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 9 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 10 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 11 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 12 | In the event they had to make do with a water-taxi . |
| 13 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 14 | In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point . |
| 15 | I propose to call her , but if in the event I judge it to be unnecessary then I shall invite because I do n't want to add unnecessarily to the length of these proceedings . |
| 16 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 17 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 18 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 19 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 20 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 21 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 22 | In the event it was decided against all precedent to bypass the flights by the construction of inclined plane lifts . |
| 23 | In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them . |
| 24 | The worst result discounting his vote , would be 6:5 in favour , in the event it was carried 9:2 ! |
| 25 | In the event it proved impossible for the appeal committee which re-heard the case after the court 's ruling to find prejudice . |
| 26 | In the event it was to continue for longer than could possibly have been envisaged . |
| 27 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 28 | In the event it was a very ragged company which won through to the east end of the common , to rein up and turn . |
| 29 | In the event it was only those six states in which agitation for closer political and economic integration had been strongest in the 1940s , with political support at the highest level , which entered into the discussions that led to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) . |
| 30 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |