Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Again , he had had to resign in humiliating circumstances.So you can see why this time he is so anxious to avoid knocking copy .
2 In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named .
3 In normal circumstances you would know this or be able to find it out , but this is still only a short case study and we have n't included it .
4 The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act .
5 ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’
6 In normal fashion we will be staging music in the Live Hall , and the weekend will see performances by some amazing artists .
7 Pseudoephedrine ( see p 317 ) can produce euphoria and delusions , if taken in very large doses , and even in normal doses it may cause nightmares and behavioural problems in children .
8 Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint .
9 Although this factor may be difficult to assess in monetary terms it may be influential in the make or buy decision .
10 In civvy street she would have found it hard to find a fellow to chat with and so she likely considered the war a godsend .
11 In a simple case , we might have the following key set : These thirty-four records need only 34 storage positions , but if they were stored in self-indexing form they would take up 359 storage positions , and there would be five gaps of 91 , 1 , 1 , 94 and 138 positions respectively .
12 In broad outline we can designate the Asiatic , the ancient , the feudal , and the modern bourgeois modes of production as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society .
13 I think in broad terms we can say that er , Les Echo comparatively did better than the F T.
14 In broad terms it may be stated as being whether an original tenant under a lease containing a rent review clause is bound by privity of contract to pay the landlord for the time being of the premises a rent agreed or otherwise determined with a subsequent assignee of the term .
15 People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route .
16 Wood will not come to much harm in moist heat below about 140°C. but , of course , in dry heat it will soon crack due to shrinkage .
17 In particular if the meeting is in private premises it should be noted that the police can insist on entering the premises even against the wishes of the organisers , if they have reasonable grounds to believe a breach of the peace is likely to occur ( Thomas v. Sawkins ( H.C. , 1935 ) ) .
18 Even in private conversation he would explain how his client could not possibly have broken into the house in the way of which he was accused , because he was far too drunk at the time , and so on .
19 The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently .
20 In private practice you could provide services for large , corporate clients , or for private individuals and small businesses .
21 The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school .
22 In an imperfect capital market it need not be the same for all firms , and in an economy subject to cyclical fluctuations in economic activity it need not be the same over time .
23 Now , there are good reasons why we might want to do that , but in economic terms you 'll reduce the net welfare of the economy , or the world simply because you 're diverting resources away from efficient modes of production into inefficient modes of production .
24 Thus in allied localities it may be possible to trace material from one specific source using its modal size and spread , noting the increases and decreases in its contribution to local materials ( Curray , 1960 ; McManus , Buller & green , 1980 ) .
25 Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him .
26 For a third distinct trend in progressive rock we can turn to Pink Floyd , known for avant-garde experiments , often making use of collage , electronics and ‘ freeform ’ techniques .
27 Well erm in complete summary I 'd just like to go through three points again .
28 Notwithstanding the Working Party 's efforts to clarify and simplify the problem of providing protection against fire in high-bay warehouses it must be made clear that the subject is one where there is a significant difference of opinion amongst experts as to the most effective method .
29 Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war .
30 As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him !
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