Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 2 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |
| 3 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 4 | In each case they have proved a potentially effective instrument for channelling productive local suggestions and for achieving sensible modifications in centrally designed materials . |
| 5 | In each case it attempts to explain what decisions are made , by whom , and how ; why the system operates in the way it does ; the problems that arise and the pressures for change ; the obstacles which inhibit change ; the effectiveness of different forms of accountability and the viability of alternatives to existing practices . |
| 6 | My destinations have all been identified by linguists , in papers which have appeared in the last five years or so , as well worth a visit , and in each case I have found the excursion worthwhile . |
| 7 | Very small constellations have not been given separate maps , and in each case I have added some of the stars in adjacent groups to help in identification . |
| 8 | In each case you 've got to make a fixing of some sort — either driving a nail or a screw . |
| 9 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 10 | In each city we have taken over hotel conference centres to provide comfortable facilities for everyone to chat in private to one of our experts . |
| 11 | And in that instant he paused to look into her face , causing her to glance up automatically at him . |
| 12 | Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles . |
| 13 | Yes I erm I would like to point out that we are looking er very closely at the sales and I 've just had a report on my desk from the head of finance which is the beginning of the discussions in the management team on er the sales erm and relation of loss of sales to profit and so on and the now we , the shop is in that position we 've had time t we have more time to assess how things are working out . |
| 14 | Though that 's beginning to be qualified a little because of the erm effects of erm national legislation , for example national employment legislation nowadays requires that all employers in a certain field of employment , and universities is one , erm pursue similar policies towards their staff , and indeed in our case erm pay them on the same pay scales and erm so in that sense we have to enter into agreements with trade unions and others which are binding on our members . |
| 15 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
| 16 | And in that campaign they 've made the links and made sure that sanitary products have a high profile : ’ It is important to us that the words ’ sanitary towel ’ and ’ tampon ’ are being used publicly ’ . |
| 17 | In that taproom he decided to push the matter further and Catesby gave him his chance . |
| 18 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 19 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 20 | In that way it has used economic means to promote the central political objective of ’ ever closer union among the people of Europe ’ . |
| 21 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 22 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 23 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 24 | So in that case we 've got to do a bit of research have n't we ? |
| 25 | Now in that case we had to select those measures er by knowledge of the problem . |
| 26 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 27 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 28 | and , and in that case it does have an independent effect , it 's an incremental effect upon the restrictiveness and that makes it bad in itself |
| 29 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 30 | " In that case — in that case I intend to take advantage of my privileges as a husband with you . " |