Example sentences of "in a [det] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 2 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 3 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 4 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 5 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 6 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 7 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 8 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 9 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 10 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 11 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 12 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 13 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 14 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 15 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 16 | In a few minutes we would be ready for Firstlight , and then we 'd we clear . |
| 17 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 18 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be meeting the teenager who 's joined the elite in the world of magic . |
| 19 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 20 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 21 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we take the wraps off one the great secrets in the world of wildlife . |
| 22 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 23 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 24 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 25 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 26 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |
| 27 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 28 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 29 | But it was no use imagining ; in a few minutes she would know everything . |
| 30 | In a few minutes she would go down . |