Example sentences of "in [noun sg] 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 | ‘ Caledonian Mining remains interested in Monktonhall , but Macleod is no longer prepared to talk to the board in case it provokes further misleading comments to the press , ’ the source said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 8 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |
| 9 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 10 | I do n't want to give any details just in case it gives other landlords ideas . |
| 11 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 12 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The maritime antarctic as a whole has 20% more lichens than the continent and 150% more mosses ; in addition it has 25 taxa of hepatics to the continent 's one , and two species of angiosperms that have not yet been found on the continent . |
| 15 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 16 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 19 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 20 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 21 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In effect it travels 230 miles ( 370 kms ) also the entire northern flank of the Swiss High Alps , crossing 16 passes and passing below some spectacular peaks including those celebrated giants of the Bernese Oberland — the Wellerhorn , Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau . |
| 25 | In winter it grew dark and fed on the sap in trees , or the blood of animals . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 28 | To be of value in war it required Egyptian co-operation . |
| 29 | In theory it sounded plausible enough . |
| 30 | In summer it gets dry and it goes like like . |