Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 2 | Although the term ‘ fungus ’ is often used by fishkeepers and it appears regularly in all the books , it is still in my experience a disease organism that falls fairly low in the ‘ Top Ten ’ fish disease ratings . |
| 3 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 4 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 5 | In my country a man of my rank would be screened completely from any possible risk of attack ! ’ |
| 6 | We have in my company a system of good work bonuses which are totally unsystematized . |
| 7 | The difficulty is I want to try and be helpful erm er er my Right Honourable Friend has , has made a number of conceptions and we have er put down in my name a number of these amendments to the Bill in order to try and meet those very concessions and those the anxieties which your Lordships have have expressed . |
| 8 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 9 | I think we call er the volunteers , or those who run the shops anyway , Sally 's Army and that is in my way a tribute to Sally Barker who 's chairman of our branches advisory committee and does so much to make sure that the money does get raised in the field . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that last night in my constituency a woman was killed in a car accident and three others were injured , one extremely seriously ? |
| 11 | ‘ I have in my possession a simularity file which clearly establishes the guilt of the murderer . |
| 12 | I have in my possession a new drug which will have the required effect upon him . ’ |
| 13 | I have in my possession a letter from one of the RAF 's most revered names , a great wartime C-in-C and possibly one of the RAF 's foremost Chiefs-of-Air-Staff and , in peacetime , a dear friend of mine these many years , who said of the Bennett appointment : " I can not understand what Harris was thinking of making that airline fellow a Group Commander … " |
| 14 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 15 | The tokens encouraged me in my search a great deal , as did the next find to appear , a 14th century strap-end buckle . |
| 16 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 17 | I roll the glass ball round in my hand a bit , waiting for them to say summat . |
| 18 | I have in my hand a wonderful book called Children 's Letters to God . |
| 19 | Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’ |
| 20 | My proposal , and er notice I have in my hand a final draft which will be submitted later this week for approval by headquarters . |
| 21 | I had them in my hand a moment ago . |
| 22 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 23 | I mean that is a serious social and political issue to which there should be in my submission a planning response . |
| 24 | In other words , whilst the power to decide to serve an intervention notice without first hearing representations from persons affected was not in itself so unfair as to invalidate the notice , a lack of any means by which the person could immediately thereafter challenge the notice was in my opinion a breach of the requirements of fairness which the law should imply . |
| 25 | In my opinion a tenant in that position , that is to say where an absolute order for possession has been made against him , notwithstanding that it may be suspended , is not a tenant for the purposes of section 12(1) ( g ) . |
| 26 | In the particular case of a minister 's decision fixing the tariff period for a life sentence prisoner , there is not in my opinion a requirement that reasons should always be given . |
| 27 | It is sufficient to say that I agree with what my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , has to say about these cases in the speech to be delivered by him , and that in my opinion a person who thus procures the company 's consent dishonestly and with the intention of permanently depriving the company of the money is guilty of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 28 | Anisette is not a liqueur which , speaking at least for myself , one has a great compulsion to swig down in quantity ; in my cupboard a bottle lasts for years . |
| 29 | A sort of paring-down : in my analysis a surrender of the crisis-and-clarity urge , and an unloading of all the consecutions of theory upon others , principally Kirillov and Shatov . |
| 30 | There is at present in my business a great dislike of the bulk chemical businesses , and a great wish on the part of most people to shift out of them . |