Example sentences of "in [noun] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railways were unlikely to threaten that target but , just in case they harboured any ambitions to get close , Fraser removed three of their first four batsmen for 10 runs in the space of 22 deliveries . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me warn ministers , in case they try another way of wriggling out of it , that I have the documents . |
| 3 | The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in . |
| 4 | However , I am also writing to Wyre Borough Council in case they have any responsibility for maintaining these lights . |
| 5 | However , I am also writing to Wyre Borough Council in case they have any responsibility for maintaining these lights . |
| 6 | Which it saves just in case we had any accidents , and lost any of our files anywhere . |
| 7 | These are so often fastened by those who , in the name of love , secure our chains daily in case we have any notions of escape . |
| 8 | In case you get any ideas buster , that car behind is full of friends of mine . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Rock'n'roll ’ , in case you had any doubts , is not Jay 's bag . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd better dance with you in case you wanted another drink . ’ |
| 11 | In case you need any reminder , nothing in this German market quite matches the allure of a commercial certainty . |
| 12 | ‘ Sub-lieutenant Bacci here will stay and help you in case you leave any gaps . ’ |
| 13 | In fact he was so attracted to the canal with its brightly painted barges pulled by strong horses that his parents finally had to forbid him to go there in case he had another accident . |
| 14 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 15 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 16 | In case anyone thinks this sort of thing is confined to earlier times and feudal societies , it is well to consider some more recent debates in European societies like France , Germany and Italy where grammatical gender languages are spoken . |
| 17 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 18 | And I think I 'll stop right there with even more comments , erm , in case I lose that contract too . |
| 19 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 20 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 21 | If the Nottingham test proves as successful as the system seems to have worked in Florida , it could mean even better business for Marconi in Swindon who promise more jobs . |
| 22 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 23 | Dustin kept changing his concept of the part , and in addition he threw several temper tantrums , none of which pleased the generally unflappable Stuart Burge , another distinguished British director . |
| 24 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 25 | The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish . |
| 26 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 27 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 28 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 29 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 30 | In future I believe that planning will be worse because there 'll be no sort of overview , and that it will lead to an over provision of the profitable services and inadequate provision of services like mental illness , the elderly and those with learning difficulties . |