Example sentences of "[vb mod] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Yet however suspect may be the capacity of electors in general to vote responsibly and intelligently their right to make political choices must in a democracy be respected . |
| 3 | No , you should in a chance with that , that 's really good I thought . |
| 4 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 5 | Yep , I mean that might in a sense |
| 6 | But I think we 'll update not so much is over public authorities would probably take your advice , but I 'm thinking of people who are not public authorities who might in a way suffer , that your advice may cause them some expense , and they might choose to delay it , and well I am guilty we ca n't afford to do that this year , so it never gets done . |
| 7 | I 'll in a minute ! |
| 8 | I 'll in a minute . |
| 9 | I did the best I could in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 10 | that 's something , but this thing reaches publicity stage , which it could in a couple of weeks time , appear in a paper , you 'd have all sorts of weirdos |
| 11 | By running a £5 million overdraft , the court could in a way be construed as borrowing money to invest in works of art . |
| 12 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 13 | Claire Claremont arrived , giggling and nuzzling up to Byron when she could in a manner distinctly unlike her half-sister 's . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Andy had discovered windsurfing and that he could make more money in a day teaching it than he could in a week in his other job . |
| 15 | Any suggestions er will be duly received , but er we 'll come back on that one if we may in a minute , |
| 16 | With the present pace of things these survivors may in a generation 's time become a picturesque memory like the yeoman 's smock . |
| 17 | The choice here may in a sense be one between knowing more and knowing less . |
| 18 | There is a belief that mild mental handicap may in a sense be inherited in a way that most severe mental handicaps are not , although public understanding would be to the contrary . |
| 19 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 20 | But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Swing the club back as you would in a golf swing and then start to return to an imaginary ball . |
| 22 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 24 | The deaths of the agents , Cosmas and Damien , Bowyer and those terrible injuries inflicted on Southgate , would in a court of law puzzle any jury . |
| 25 | Well er it would in a way because you 'd have to pay interest on what you were borrowing would n't you ? |
| 26 | Yes and I said I would in a minute darling alright ? |
| 27 | He would pick his way delicately , almost mincing , along the trail between the giant pine cones , planting his two-toed feet as delicately as the Queen Mother would in a field of cow pats . |
| 28 | Residents should be able to live as far as possible as they would in a home of their own . |
| 29 | She would in a moment , when she could summon up the energy . |
| 30 | Better still , if you are in a position to present these baits on tackle to fish you can see , then you may learn more about fish behaviour in one hour than you would in a season of fishing ‘ blind ’ . |