Example sentences of "in [noun] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They disable the alarm , use a glass-cutter to get in , do n't leave any prints behind and wear masks in case they 're spotted . |
| 2 | Well , we 're not supposed to start till five past , so let's give them a couple more minutes just in case they 're caught in the lift or something . |
| 3 | frantic , man In case they 're gon na Nuke us Tae the back of |
| 4 | ‘ And Kate , the vacancy is now filled , but perhaps you 'd better take names and addresses of any applicants just in case they 're needed later . ’ |
| 5 | Well th they 're there in case they 're needed I think you see |
| 6 | For a start , I wo n't talk about other people in case they 're hurt . |
| 7 | A useful way to understand this is to remember that in a domestic context UK banks do not need to keep operational balances at the Bank of England equal to the total value of their deposits , just in case they are withdrawn . |
| 8 | Another implication of this advice is that teachers need not begin keeping cupboards full of evidence from every pupil over three year periods in case they are selected for a random sample check on teacher assessments . |
| 9 | Data analysts must not be put off using the best techniques available in case they are misunderstood , but they have an important responsibility to explain what they have done to try to ensure that misunderstandings do not arise . |
| 10 | Keep the rest of the answers in reserve in case they are needed . |
| 11 | British Rail trains travelling in remote areas of Scotland carry Mars bars in their emergency packs in case they are stranded in snow . |
| 12 | DARLINGTON police have warned gardeners not to leave tools out at night in case they are used for crime . |
| 13 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course you can , ’ she said , taking his arm and walking him towards the bay window , but she kept one eye on the painting in case they were tempted . |
| 15 | On the telephone , they used rhyming slang in case they were overheard ; at the celebrations , the fine crystal glass and good company belied the hazards of patrolling a few dozen miles away . |
| 16 | I bought that along with me , just in case they were gon na . |
| 17 | I told him to ring I told him ring Apex up in case they were recruiting . |
| 18 | And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats . |
| 19 | We were all made very wary by this brush with authority and Frankie even refused to go out with Dad that night in case they were spotted by the parish man . |
| 20 | It also urged firms to make sure they completed and exported orders quickly in case they were found out or the UN introduced further sanctions against Iraq . |
| 21 | ‘ In Germany they are becoming blase . |
| 22 | Its main interest lay in the reconstruction of the historical evolution of the Indo-European languages which , perhaps because in Germany they were known as ‘ Indo-German ’ , attracted national , if not nationalist , attention in that country . |
| 23 | Later this month in Middlesbrough they are playing a programme entirely from Vienna . |
| 24 | That 's where I got them in Bewise they 're closing down or something or |
| 25 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 26 | In part they are driven by the need to effect productivity improvements in the public sector , and IT once more becomes the means to achieve this . |
| 27 | Japanese who admit their country was wrong in its aggressions of 1930–45 nonetheless point out that in part they were trying to rescue Asia from western colonialism . |
| 28 | In part they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs . |
| 29 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ For the first time in ages they are tackling their problems in a sensible , mature manner without hysteria on one side and bloody-mindedness on the other . |