Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun sg] it " in BNC.

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1 After the episode in Gerar it is not rescinded .
2 I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her .
3 So it 's still me agreeing , because otherwise they di , they 're taking control off you , and it 's no good in business it 's not is it ? fighting for control , but it 's as long as you 're both fighting and both happy about fighting for it , that 's fine .
4 The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally .
5 Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just
6 She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box .
7 Before describing the circuit in detail it will be as well to review the basic design concepts and explain just how this level of performance can be obtained .
8 A course may change radically without changing its title ; conversely , re-titling a course may simply be an exercise in re-packaging it for external consumption .
9 The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today .
10 Often their frustration is made worse as they do not wish to admit to stress at work in case it appears on employment or insurance records .
11 surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves .
12 Williams added : ‘ At this moment in time it is a relegation match but it is n't one we particularly fear — I 've played against them this season and I know they 're not the Forest of old .
13 At particular market in time whilst we agree as the board that we should employ someone and we intend to employ someone we just think at this particular moment in time it is very difficult for us to actually raise that sort of money on a regular basis .
14 This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project .
15 They were all Altun family retainers of long standing — men whose first and only concern would be to protect the interests of the Kha-Khan — and Burun watched them out of the corner of his eye in case it occurred to Nogai to send Sipotai warning .
16 Now in its sixth edition in English it is used extensively throughout the world , but has also been translated into Spanish , Portuguese and Japanese .
17 For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years .
18 It is difficult to see how at that point in history it could have been otherwise .
19 Yeah I mean there 's no point in re-roofing it for instance .
20 Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time .
21 In considering which strategies might be useful in trying to improve outcome in phenylketonuria it would be helpful to understand the mechanisms involved in the damage .
22 Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour .
23 If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone .
24 Well it erm goes under that rather queer name in fact it is the association of British universities .
25 To come from an island called ‘ Muck ’ presented some problems , on account of the substance in which not to tread , and the animal with whose name in Gaelic it cross-fertilises — the pig .
26 ‘ We have also had to throw away 200 lbs of meat in case it has been contaminated by glass fragments .
27 She stood , catching her breath , holding her head in case it fell off .
28 And I do n't stand the cans in hot water in case it marks the bottom of the pan and spoils it .
29 Its drawbacks were obvious , but so long as the tsar sought noble acquiescence in reform it probably represented the only sort of emancipation which had a chance of reaching the statute book .
30 REVOLUTION IN REVERSE It 's a century and a half since Britain brought about an industrial revolution and dominated the age of steam , iron and the mechanisation of textile manufacture .
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