Example sentences of "the event the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 2 | By now urgently needing at least 100 replacements for its geriatric locomotive fleet , Railfreight initially appeared to show deep interest in its own General Motors stud , but in the event the order went to Brush Traction of Loughborough . |
| 3 | The company 's co-brokers , Hoare Govett , had hoped for £12m before tax ; in the event the figure was £9.54m , still 89 per cent up on the corresponding period 's £5.04m . |
| 4 | Perhaps the only disappointment is that the money is to be shared equally , when a winning bonus would give the event the edge it deserves . |
| 5 | In the event the Association 's Honorary Wings Appeal Organisers , together with enthusiastic and voluntary helpers , set about the challenge with such determination and energy that a total of £2,437,637 was reached , an increase of 47% on the pervious year . |
| 6 | There was a lot of emotive talk about the UK 's only helicopter company selling out to the Americans , but in the event the Sikorsky-Fiat minority involvement won the day and Heseltine resigned from the government . |
| 7 | The Kilns venture was highly unusual , and the Lewis brothers knew that they could only afford it by taking the great risk of throwing in their lot together ; in the event the purchase price was lowered to £3,300 . |
| 8 | There had been talk of privatisations worth $16m ; in the event the take will be half that . |
| 9 | In the event the opposite was true . |
| 10 | In the event the responses were fairly predictable and fitted most of the options on the questionnaire . |
| 11 | ( 1983 ) to examine how social work delivery should best be organized ( particularly in rural areas ) held more promise in this respect , but in the event the argument becomes somewhat diffuse , the rural-urban dichotomy apparently not validated and the status of various organizational differences uncertain . |
| 12 | In the event the opera came to nothing , although Mozart did write some of the music for a ballet entitled Les Petits Riens . |
| 13 | In the event the idea was allowed to drop because the Emperor realized it would strain relations with Britain . |
| 14 | Although in the event the old lady died first , towards the end it looked as if she would need to be taken in by one of her descendants and this caused distinct tension : ‘ we had least room and everything — and least money ’ , but ‘ there was a bit of squabbling in family . |
| 15 | In the event the party 's net loss of around 200 seats was , or was successfully presented as being , better than expected . |
| 16 | In the event the crowd left quietly when the police arrived . |
| 17 | In the event the Loyal Citizens failed to appear and the only incident occurred when a small group began to sing ‘ God Save the Queen ’ as the demonstrators struck up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ . |
| 18 | In the event the calculated TTI values , using the predicted heat flow models , matched well the maturity parameters measured in the wells . |
| 19 | The L & NWR Company had entered on the deeds the condition , that in the event the building ceasing to become a school , ownership would revert to the Church . |
| 20 | In the event the experiment was perhaps one of the more useful of the pioneering experiments with controlled thermonuclear research . |
| 21 | In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about . |
| 22 | The fact that in the event the volume of training proved insufficient , relates ( as I shall argue later ) to the whole issue of priorities in teacher education and to the relationship between expectations in curriculum reform and means available . |
| 23 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 24 | We hate doing this because it could be handy information in the event the other party ever accuses us of a transgression . |
| 25 | In the event the National Coal Board decided not to invoke the powers provided by the Employment Acts of 1980 and 1982 . |
| 26 | In the event the Act required simultaneous , across-the-board registration of both sectors , placing an unnecessary strain on the private sector , and ensuring the greatest possible public hostility to the legislation , and the greatest possible strain on the Registrar 's Office . |
| 27 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 28 | In the event the message was delivered rather differently as follows : ‘ … |
| 29 | In the event the Scots performed remarkably well against a team which had swept the board all season in Australasia , including a big win over Auckland . |
| 30 | In the event the industrial upheaval was averted . |