Example sentences of "in [num] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 2 carriers have children , there 's a one in 4 chance their child will have normal blood cells , a one in 2 chance they 'll have children who also be carriers anda one in 4 chance of them having a sickle cell sufferer . |
| 2 | In one folder you can have a section for notes made when preparing for language sessions , another section for drills , another for check lists and so on . |
| 3 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 4 | looking in one direction you might imagine yourself in Greenland ; another , and you gazed down upon a nest of' mill chimneys . |
| 5 | In one direction you will see the normal wave movement of the needles knitting , but in the other direction the needles hardly move at all , that is they SLIP ( and , even if you 'd had yarn threaded and stitches on the needles , they would n't have knitted on this row ) . |
| 6 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 7 | In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse . |
| 8 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 9 | In one sense it can be argued that generalizations are of little use . |
| 10 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 11 | In one sense you could say that we begin our lives in the wheelchair of the womb ; we begin our lives literally by being carried around . |
| 12 | In one sense he would be right — the person he had in mind had not arrived . |
| 13 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 14 | Even when the work can be executed in one operation it may prove beneficial to identify stage targets , for example first lift or second lift on brickwork . |
| 15 | In one way they should do something about people having second homes and make it more , that they get more tax out of them or something |
| 16 | In one way it can , for directors ' pay-slips can be misleading now that many are rewarded with bonuses connected to their firm 's performance . |
| 17 | In one way I would n't expect to find any witnesses — since what happened took place close to dawn . |
| 18 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 19 | If we were to fail in one area it would begin to be assumed elsewhere that perhaps the anti-British propaganda of our enemies had some basis to it , and that the Government were no longer willing or able to help their friends . |
| 20 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 21 | Whole books have been devoted to the topic of sensitivity analysis in linear programming , and in one chapter we can do little more than indicate basic themes . |
| 22 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 23 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |