Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 2 | Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners . |
| 3 | Both in case of a straightforward sale as well as in case of delegating the management of state assets , the choice of purchaser or manager must be by tender , which is public unless the board of directors of the agency restricts the tenders of those specifically invited to submit offers . |
| 4 | When the States took over Panama , the troops stationed in Hawaii were put on full alert in case of a retaliatory attack . |
| 5 | It is well worth saving the seed of this — and of the drumstick scabious , ‘ Paper Moon ’ — in case of a hard winter . |
| 6 | Finally , an emergency lighting kit should always be ready in an accessible place , in case of a sudden power failure . |
| 7 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 8 | In case of a one-man company the founder exercises the rights of the members ' meeting . |
| 9 | In case of an indefinite postponement due to bereavement : Owing to the recent death of Mr Arthur Smith , Mr and Mrs Charles Brown deeply regret that they are obliged to cancel the invitations to the marriage of their daughter Jennifer to Mr John Smith on … |
| 10 | Would there not be merits er at least putting in the requisite wiring in case at a future date , that a C A S O M for instance , became dual capable ? |
| 11 | Financier Sir James Goldsmith has announced plans to provide £1 million in funding to a new organization , Sustainable Agriculture , Food and Environment ( SAFE ) , which will group together small farmers , organic growers and green organisations . |
| 12 | They may even marry quite young to escape the pressures of the courting scene , but in these cases choice of partner is based more on the need for a mutual defence against a mutual problem than in hope of a mutual problem being resolved . |
| 13 | I see the move into the people stage in building as a particular manifestation of the post — industrial culture , into which Western European societies will increasingly move . |
| 14 | In empirical work , the unit of analysis is typically taken as the nuclear family or household , and the distribution based on all such units in existence at a particular date . |
| 15 | Beckett 's failing narrators manage in their torrents of words only unstably to sustain in existence on a strange edge of death and silence , adrift in ‘ who knows what profounds of mind ’ ( Beckett 1984 : 288 ) . |
| 16 | To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty . |
| 17 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 18 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 19 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 20 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 21 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , many of the stories were already in existence in an oral form . |
| 23 | The background of one was recognizably Santa de Nogueira , and she was locked in struggle with an ordinary-looking man about whom a dark cloud was gathering . |
| 24 | Of course the sense of occasion is heightened by this seasonal tide and many feel that here the Calvinist Kirk is at its very essence — grim , taciturn , with the minister perched in judgement on a wicked generation , like a hoodie craw in the pulpit . |
| 25 | ‘ An important modern task is being carried out in harness with an ancient woodland system , ’ he said . |
| 26 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 27 | Talks began on Jan. 15 on the demand by tribals of Jharkhand region in Bihar for a separate state for 13 districts of the region . |
| 28 | But to rely on the decline of pre-war forms of working-class life and the rise in consumerism as a political explanation for what has happened to working-class loyalties is the narrowest kind of mythic reconstruction . |
| 29 | Spinners were of a short , fat , carrot-like shape , turned in hardwood with a coned-shape metal stud in the centre of the base on which the top spun . |
| 30 | The corpse/cadaver brasses sport shrouds of a type seen on the skeleton examples , though the presence of flesh allowed the cutter to render a more accurate portrayal of human features — often producing a successfully recognizable human being , albeit one in want of a good meal . |