Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly in his footsteps , in case of some pitfall . |
| 2 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 3 | A pro-active public relations executive would have gone over , in detail , the problem of the new soap powder with the client before it was launched and got approval of an action plan just in case of any problems . |
| 4 | The latter also makes ethylene at Grangemouth so that , in case of any shortfall at Wilton , alternative supplies can be arranged . |
| 5 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 6 | He set sentries , to watch in case of any raid , and the clachan was warned to be ready ; the MacIans might just try it , though they were sore hurt themselves . |
| 7 | Beacons were kept ablaze along the walls protecting the harbour and adjacent coastline in case of any infiltration attempt by boat , from the English ships out there for instance ; but so far nothing such appeared to have been attempted . |
| 8 | The parents preferred to keep their children with them , just in case of another attack , but we made efforts to keep the school going . |
| 9 | Just in case for some reason you want to call me … ’ |
| 10 | Just in case for some reason they 'll correlate , it does n't matter . |
| 11 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 12 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Britain 's universities were afflicted from 1 98 1 with very severe cuts in their funding , amounting to a 2 per cent drop in income for most universities . |
| 14 | There are still a few thousand of the biggest losers who have not had a single penny increase in income from that day to this . |
| 15 | We 've got a drop in income in all areas . |
| 16 | That will not be easy because most of them are heavily involved in funding of all sorts of other organisations and they have their own interests . |
| 17 | However , I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there was a substantial increase in funding for each training and enterprise council this year on the year before . |
| 18 | The rage of the Iceni spread through the south-east , affecting first the Trinovantes who had been simmering in discontent for some years . |
| 19 | Those who demand strict realism in fiction of this kind might take the same extreme view as Patrick O'Brian 's sardonic Dr Maturin who , in discussing the Spithead Mutiny with his more conventional friend Captain Aubrey , pronounces himself in favour of the rebellion : |
| 20 | In October 1984 we analysed the proposal documents from all the 23 Major Project schools in existence at that date , for whom documentation was readily available . |
| 21 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 22 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 23 | On the one hand the behaviour is more complicated very close to the critical parameter value , with infinitely many periodic orbits in existence on both sides of the bifurcation , some of which may be stable { 10,15,31,32 } . |
| 24 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 25 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 26 | We try to run a commercially oriented operation , but the profit is purely a method of ensuring that we can continue in existence for many years to come . |
| 27 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 28 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 29 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 30 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |