Example sentences of "in [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 2 | One particular advantage of models such as these is that they can be used to produce multipliers which show the effects of changes in eg the population of a region on the employment levels in that region . |
| 3 | Changes in hiring forms and in master-to-man relationships tending towards the predomination of the wage form in both agriculture and manufacturing resulted in only a part of the labourer 's life , his working hours , being under the control of his employer . |
| 4 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
| 5 | Many general practitioners , however , continue to offer low levels of supervision , and diabetic miniclinics are still offered in only a minority of practices . |
| 6 | In the Berber heartland of Kabylie east of Algiers the boycott appeal by Aït Ahmed resulted in only a quarter of the electorate voting . |
| 7 | The issue of competence to carry out a review is critical considering that in only a quarter of all cases were outsiders much involved . |
| 8 | In only a handful of cases did the interviewer have to direct the interview to any great extent , and then only in cases where the informant responded only in short phrases . |
| 9 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 10 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 11 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 12 | Johnson , in perhaps a fit of amending courtesy , reflects upon the excellence of ‘ Isle of Muck ’ as a landlord . |
| 13 | This method has to be handled with a great deal of care since the danger is that it will result in exactly the kind of antagonism which the salesperson is wishing to avoid . |
| 14 | In just a couple of days you 'll find your feet and get that special feeling that you belong in your Club . |
| 15 | Fill in the blanks and in just a couple of hours you can have a fully integrated 3 year financial forecast , including Sales , Operating Expenses , P&L , Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Analysis . |
| 16 | He 'll be able to return to his Florida oceanside home in just a couple of hours . |
| 17 | He was back in just a couple of minutes , and his face was set into dark , angry lines . |
| 18 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |
| 19 | Erm moving on and talking about the subject of the Gascoigne Wood pits or the er proposed tip at the Gascoigne Wood pits in just a couple of moments time . |
| 20 | so will there be a game and if so where and shall i pack my football shoes in my luggage — im leaving home ( over here in even colder ( -5 C ) norway ) ) in just a couple of hours so it would have been nice to know . |
| 21 | A heavy snowfall can transform an easy walk into a serious proposition in just a matter of hours . |
| 22 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 23 | GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits . |
| 24 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 25 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 26 | The ways in which resources are partitioned are many , as , for example , on Barro Colorado Island where there are as many as eight variables of importance in just the food of coexisting ‘ surface-gleaning ’ bats . |
| 27 | Bureaucratic responsiveness in thus a matter of relations between institutions . |
| 28 | There is in both a sense of the elemental . |
| 29 | In both a change of ruler or minister often had drastic repercussions , particularly on the conduct of foreign policy . |
| 30 | Pre-exposure to a novel flavour normally results in both a reduction of neophobia and in a reduction of the ability of that flavour to serve as a CS in flavour-aversion conditioning . |