Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 2 | Those people who 've been holding off buying anything just in case prices drop still further could now find they 've missed the boat . |
| 3 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 4 | This is all to the good but there are a few bare bones we should like you to ‘ gnaw on ’ just in case complacency sets in ! |
| 5 | This worries me in case germs collect there . |
| 6 | Helen would n't hold on to anything properly in case mosquitoes jumped out of the suitcases and gave her malaria . |
| 7 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 8 | When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval . |
| 9 | As it 's a special deal , the money will have to be paid all at once , and the sooner the better in case fares go up ; so I suggest 8th December ( ie one month from now ) as the provisional date for payment . |
| 10 | In case Esau has not yet got the message , he says to him , ‘ Accept , I pray you , my gift that is brought to you , ’ and he uses a new word for gift , berakah . |
| 11 | In case people switch off . |
| 12 | There 's a danger when you 're inexperienced of wanting to make a visible mark just in case people do n't notice you . |
| 13 | But just in case Vecchi tied in with the five thousand reward Mr. Bonanza was posting , I did n't see why I should settle for the usual sawbuck . ’ |
| 14 | Then I 'll 'ave ter be goin' , in case Rachel wakes up early . ’ |
| 15 | I wanted him to keep it going in case football did n't work out . |
| 16 | Similarly , the fact that the increases in the money supply precede increases in money incomes does not prove causality . |
| 17 | Thus , major changes in oceans with consequent major changes in base level seem far less improbable than they did previously . |
| 18 | ‘ The rise in base rates does not unduly threaten the shape of the economy and the market going into 1990-91 ’ , he said . |
| 19 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 20 | For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides . |
| 21 | AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal in West London heard recently that lazy and undisciplined porters at an airport hotel had come to regard the lobby as their own personal fiefdom . |
| 22 | We conclude that the cancer risks per unit dose to the population in Umhausen and the uranium miners in West Bohemia do not differ considerably . |
| 23 | Mr Richard Needham , Northern Ireland Minister , said : ‘ That the two communities in West Belfast kicked out the trumpet of terrorism is the most wonderful message of this election . |
| 24 | Early in 1990 a group of people involved in various community organisations in West Belfast met informally to discuss the economic problems of the area . |
| 25 | ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 … |
| 26 | Women working in West Belfast do so in spite of government policies rather than because of them . |
| 27 | In addition , it should not be assumed that long-term trends in income distribution continue forever : there is evidence that recent years have seen significant changes in these trends in Britain . |
| 28 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 29 | I 've called it R P to distinguish it from Spearman 's which we 're gon na do next week , but you can convert the value of R to a T score and if you 've got a T score you can look it up in T tables to work out whether it 's significant . |
| 30 | Ashton in Façade and MacMillan in Elite Syncopations describe how dancing is such fun when influenced by ‘ show biz ’ fashions of a particular period by particular kinds of people . |