Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight loss does lower the metabolism in that every time you lose one pound , you will need to eat about 18 calories a day less to stay at a stable weight . |
| 2 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 3 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 4 | In half an hour we shall not be able to see our hands in front of our faces . |
| 5 | In half an hour we shall be riding north , victors . ’ |
| 6 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 7 | In half an hour she was packed . |
| 8 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 9 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 10 | In half an hour I will ask you again about my brothers . ’ |
| 11 | Only do n't be too long ; if Matt 's not back in half an hour I 'm going home . ’ |
| 12 | In half an hour it was all planned . |
| 13 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |
| 14 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 15 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 16 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 17 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 18 | We were in such a state we decided to swallow what seemed the bitter pill of Thatcherism . |
| 19 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 20 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 21 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 22 | In such a case it was argued , following St Augustine , that since the soldier was in the service of his lord , it was the lord who must accept responsibility . |
| 23 | Reversing the courts below , the Court of Appeal refused his application ; his credibility was the key issue , and in such a case it was of ‘ extreme importance ’ that his evidence be tested by cross-examination in open court . |
| 24 | In such a case it is suggested that you have a door made in either Douglas fir or hemlock and specify that the timber should be in accordance with Class I of BS 1186 ‘ Timber for and workmanship in joinery ’ : Part I specification for timber . |
| 25 | In such a case it can pay to set up an ancillary file when the file is loaded . |
| 26 | In such a case it will very frequently involve a lesser or lesser-known crime . |
| 27 | In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance . |
| 28 | If appearing on behalf of a respondent in such a case it would be essential to argue the alternative reasons when showing what was the reason for dismissal . |
| 29 | In such a case it may well be advisable to draw up the contract to cover stages that can be defined in this way and make contracts for succeeding stages conditional upon achieving agreed criteria of success for prior stages . |
| 30 | In such a case it is not caught by s. 22 unless it is by itself a contract for sale [ of land ] … |