Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | June brides will have to start planning for the big event about now , so in Secrets of Success we show you how to cook the perfect wedding buffet , with salmon and salads , and , of course , a three tier wedding cake that will make 'em gasp . |
| 2 | I explained that in case of emergency she could easily touch the ground with her feet and , so encouraged , she came out with me to learn . |
| 3 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 4 | Keep the rest of the answers in reserve in case they are needed . |
| 5 | Were these held in reserve in case I would n't be duped ? |
| 6 | This is not to imply that we need always be certain nor never make mistakes ; but in cases of doubt we should nonetheless be ready with some description : I see something black and circular in the road , I hear creaks and rustlings downstairs . |
| 7 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |
| 8 | In cases of doubt it is for the court to decide whether a witness is an expert or not after considering his qualifications and experience . |
| 9 | In defence of fishing it has been alleged that , were it not for fishermen on our rivers , accidental or deliberate pollution would not be detected so quickly . |
| 10 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
| 11 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 12 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 13 | Even in times of peace it required constant vigilance to keep the peoples across the Rhine in check . |
| 14 | Old people were the most expendable and in times of famine they committed suicide by walking naked into the snow . |
| 15 | In times of drought they will be able to reach leaves and so survive . |
| 16 | As Hannah Arendt has shown , in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship ; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism , no control and , above all , no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives . |
| 17 | ‘ In times of emergency we behave differently from normal times , ’ says Meir Edlestein , the director of the Mevasseret absorption centre . |
| 18 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 19 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 20 | In times of danger you said rapidly under your breath , Hail Mary hill of grace — with a great leaning breath onto the H — Holy Mary Mother of God Pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Amen . |
| 21 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 22 | What the two presidential candidates lack in experience of government they make up for in wealth and good connections . |
| 23 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 24 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 25 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 26 | He says : ‘ With so many companies going bust every week and defaulting on chains of suppliers who , in turn , are put in jeopardy of collapse it is urgent that the law be changed . ’ |
| 27 | For the ultimate in flexibility with Citalia you can now leave on any day you like , stay between 2 and 7 nights with a long stay option of 14 nights and return on the day you choose . |
| 28 | He visited companies in areas of business he knew little about . |
| 29 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 30 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |