Example sentences of "in the [adj] [conj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father was the inimitable Sandy Greig , then a colleague on my newspaper group and a wonderful companion in the Press-box whether at cricket or rugby . |
| 2 | Jamie Delgado , the only Briton to win a world Junior Title , which he did in Florida in the 14 and under age category , will continue to develop as a potential world beater for Britain , provided he stays firmly under the wing of David Lloyd . |
| 3 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 4 | The angels then sing : ’ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace , good will toward men . ’ |
| 5 | That has been changed in the Revised Standard Version as follows : ’ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased . ’ |
| 6 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 7 | It proposes that the basic long-run relationship is proportional , yet predicts a non-proportional relationship in the short-run and for cross-section data . |