Example sentences of "in [noun] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would rather carry the model I am working on , in case it gets injured , ’ he said reasonably . |
| 2 | Just in case it gets bumpy . ’ |
| 3 | I never lend it out in case it gets lost . |
| 4 | Well I would n't in case it gets stuck in here in your mouth . |
| 5 | All the things you ‘ ought ’ to take on holiday — just in case it turns chilly , rains , is too hot , or whatever else — have to be reduced by sheer practicality , when forced to it , of deciding what you can possibly do without and leave behind . |
| 6 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |
| 7 | I do n't want to give any details just in case it gives other landlords ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ In October 1991 , when the local authority negotiated a long-term foster home placement in Windsor it seems reasonable to suppose then they had already embarked on a plan to move towards adoption . |
| 9 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 10 | In addition it limits public understanding of government ability , inhibits the explicit establishment of public sector planning programmes , and leads to inefficiency and lack of accountability on the part of departmental and programme managers . |
| 11 | Performed in Shiraz it aroused enormous anger and offence . |
| 12 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
| 13 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 14 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 15 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 16 | In winter it grew dark and fed on the sap in trees , or the blood of animals . |
| 17 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 18 | In England it lies concealed behind Tescos and the shopping mall . |
| 19 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 20 | To be of value in war it required Egyptian co-operation . |
| 21 | In theory it sounded plausible enough . |
| 22 | Even in August it looked cold . |
| 23 | In traditional aborigine societies in Australia it brought high prestige and power since the elders directed the affairs of the tribe , but in Western societies , the elderly are usually pensioned off and old age assumes a very different meaning . |
| 24 | At its HQ in Aldershot it runs various PT courses and trains instructors who are then sent world-wide to maintain standards of fitness in every unit of the British Army . |
| 25 | In ewes it seems likely that the parasites are present largely as hypobiotic larvae in the lungs during each winter and mature in the spring . |
| 26 | In summer it gets dry and it goes like like . |
| 27 | In men it increased from 59.1 to 113.4 , but in women it remained unchanged ( mean 35.0 ) . |
| 28 | But in principle it seems inexcusable to penalise the company for breach of a duty not owed by it but by its directors and intended to protect , among others , the company and its members . |
| 29 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 30 | In fact it requires special sensors that are difficult to obtain , and quite expensive . |