Example sentences of "in [adj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 2 | The Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee has argued in vain that law centres should be treated as an essential part of the national network of legal services and that the Lord Chancellor should take on responsibility for their core funding . |
| 3 | The incident , which took place on 3 March , was discussed in private this week by members of Nithsdale District Council in Dumfries . |
| 4 | The theme continued in the issue of the Architectural Review entitled ‘ Counter Attack ’ , published in 1957. this time highlighting those agents and elements exempted from aesthetic control . |
| 5 | In 1948 another settler paper appeared , based in Lusaka : the Central African Post , edited by the retired medical practitioner , Dr Alexander Scott . |
| 6 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 7 | those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which can not be limited as required by this Protocol ; and consequently , in each such case , are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction . |
| 8 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 9 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of the discharge of its functions under this Act , every licensing board ( a ) shall hold a meeting in January , March , June and October of each year beginning on a date in each such month fixed by the licensing board at least eight weeks prior to the meeting ; ( ii ) may hold such other meetings as appear to the board to be appropriate . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) It is frequently possible to determine how many periodic orbits of what topological type are created or destroyed in each such bifurcation . |
| 11 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 12 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 13 | Aye , and are a lot of people involved in that that work in the factory ? |
| 14 | I think it will affect working women , or in fact anybody working , both directly and indirectly , and in fact the whole public indirectly , in that that sort of facility , to be able to shop , as it were , at home , will be extremely convenient and so will a facility that reminds you when things are due — a sort of , you know , household secretary really that can keep a check . |
| 15 | There , in that that Picasse or whatever it 's called ! |
| 16 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 17 | Budget-holding GPs with budgets to purchase drugs , outpatient treatment and tests and a limited range of inpatient services will be working with an ‘ internal market ’ which is mainly Type I. There are some differences from the situation faced by DHAs in that such GP practices will be able to choose the population that they serve , but will not be responsible for the full range of services . |
| 18 | In that such material on stage degrades not only those who play but those who watch — it is important . |
| 19 | So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower . |
| 20 | It is in that latter role that Fodor ( 1976 ) has exploited the use of ‘ translation ’ and made the inference that the lower-level code must therefore mean the same as the higher-level code , thus arguing in effect against what I called ‘ implementation independence ’ . |
| 21 | The November survey gave a better picture of absence , in that all school years were surveyed . |
| 22 | Whilst fundamentally of no consequence , in that all Committee members were motivated by the Club 's well being , it was now a somewhat discordant situation in a period desirous of change . |
| 23 | His farming methods were unique in that all stock were housed and fed in sheds ; there were no fences or trees . |
| 24 | I know very few people in this country who need to record their expenses in that much detail on a daily basis . |
| 25 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 26 | Erm , it 's true that in general we do have different memories than other people do er but it does n't seem to be fully individuating in that any change in the contents of the memory would produce a change in . |
| 27 | Clipping is an inherent part of the PostScript language in that any shape can be used as a window through which the rest of the illustration is viewed . |
| 28 | In general , then , a bank 's highest yielding assets tend to be illiquid — for example , a large proportion of advances to customers , though profitable , are illiquid ; similarly , equities are illiquid in that any attempt to sell a large amount of stock would depress stock prices and cause capital losses . |
| 29 | These experiments resulted in that some modification enzymes ( 12–15 ) were suggested to have identity elements in close vicinity of the position to be modified , while others ( 15–17 ) are less sensitive to the neighbouring nucleotide sequences and recognize identity elements distal from the site of the modification . |
| 30 | They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction . |