Example sentences of "in [art] [det] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residential and industrial premises can be extended by up to ten per cent ( in volume terms ) , provided in the latter case that it does not materially affect the external appearance of the premises . |
| 2 | If Hughes was relevant to the decision in Foakes it must follow that Pinnel 's Case was equally relevant to the decision in Hughes but it was not cited in the latter case and it would surely have been very surprising it if had been . |
| 3 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 4 | At crisis talks in London , the Prime Minister has warned all sides involved in the strife in the former Yugoslavia that they must compromise or face total isolation . |
| 5 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 6 | How avoid lending multinationals a green gloss in the few areas where they are performing well , while they otherwise continue in their evil ways ? |
| 7 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 8 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 9 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 10 | The statements with which respondents were invited to entirely agree , agree with qualification , or disagree , were : ( 12 ) Dreams only occur in the few moments before you wake up . |
| 11 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 12 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 13 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 14 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 15 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 16 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 17 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 18 | He did n't hesitate and say ‘ I 'll have to ask God about that ’ ; in the few seconds that it took her to express her need , Elisha knew what to say to her . |
| 19 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 20 | Could it be that ? she wondered , in the few seconds before he spoke . |
| 21 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 22 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 23 | Madam Speaker I wonder if the minister is aware that in the economically declining fishing port of Brixham in South Devon the second largest fishing port in the West Country that the employment service agency want to build a new building on a prime site in the centre of Brixham in order to put both the payout office and the job creation office in the same building and they 're prepared to pay over the odds with government money and push out private enterprise who want to build that site . |
| 24 | I had an image of them having it off together in the same building where I was . |
| 25 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 26 | A masterweaver in Persia or Anatolia was held in the same esteem as we hold Rembrandt or Vermeer , and even today there are some textile artists whose reputation and status are equivalent to those of any contemporary artist in the West . |
| 27 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 28 | The income of inhabitants does not change in the same proportion if they start off in equal housing . |
| 29 | And er in some way or other you know , not always in the same position but I 'd always er had something to do with it . |
| 30 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |