Example sentences of "in the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 2 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 3 | Not music but transformation of sound-waves already in the air . |
| 4 | The stink of hops hanging in the air , wafted over from Wandsworth breweries . |
| 5 | British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high . |
| 6 | You can also become unfit in the air through lack of food and drink . |
| 7 | The upper tip will be high in the air where the wind is stronger , while the lower wing will be close to the ground where the wind is much lighter . |
| 8 | When students are learning to glide , the instructor is not only teaching them the technique of flying a glider , but also how to make decisions and judgements in the air . |
| 9 | In the air , decisions are relatively easy and concern only the student and the instructor . |
| 10 | Whereas in the air pilots may make good decisions and behave responsibly , on the ground they may feel that each move is being watched and criticised by the other members . |
| 11 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 12 | If the main wheel is further forward , the glider will have a stronger tendency to weathercock than in the air , and the rudder will be even less effective at preventing this . |
| 13 | It is vital for every pilot to learn to steer on the ground because it is a completely different technique to turning in the air . |
| 14 | In the air , look right round as you make a quick circle . |
| 15 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 16 | In this section are described ways of getting back into practice and of improving flying skills by making better use of the time in the air . |
| 17 | In the air , you will find all the modern machines very easy to fly but most are lighter on the controls . |
| 18 | But there was something in the air like hummingbirds poised over exotic blooms or velvet sheened butterflies . |
| 19 | Something in the air . |
| 20 | A less obvious example of this failure to take protective measures occurs when a contestant believes that a scoring technique has been delivered , and so disengages and dances around the area waving a fist in the air . |
| 21 | Dust hung in the air now , making it yellow and the sun orange . |
| 22 | ‘ We-ell whoops a daisy , how you drove me crazy , ’ sang Nick , pirouetting and waving the bottles in the air , ‘ but I guess it does n't matter anymore . ’ |
| 23 | It was proposed that there are endings ( or receptors ) within the nervous system which are attuned to specific types of energy , For example , retinal receptors in the eye respond to light energy , cochlear endings in the ear to vibrations in the air , and so on . |
| 24 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 25 | Well , there is the fact that it is connected to sensory endings that are designed specifically to respond to vibrations in the air . |
| 26 | Before us in the air |
| 27 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 28 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 29 | In Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , two Indian men , Farishta and Chamcha , fall out of an aeroplane and hang suspended in the air before landing on the shore of Britain , where they begin to reconstruct their identities . |
| 30 | Then suddenly the white cliffs , a salty tang in the air , a few sheep and a funereal sky . |