Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 2 | In this way , two of the RAF 's great leaders , the one who saved this country from invasion in 1940 and the other who paved the way to victory in 1945 will be rightly commemorated . |
| 3 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 4 | ‘ Few people can judge what shape a particular horse is in better than the smith who shoes him . |
| 5 | In less than a fortnight it will be the third anniversary of his death . |
| 6 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 7 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 8 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 9 | In less than a second it would tear a gap in the highway the width of the riverbed . |
| 10 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 11 | The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark . |
| 12 | But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid . |
| 13 | In less than an hour he was changing his wet clothes . |
| 14 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 15 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |