Example sentences of "in [num] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 2 | Rail and road links are inadequate , especially the connections across the Pennines with the single exception of the M62 ( the national assumption in 1991 being that the Roman system radiating from London is still good enough ) . |
| 3 | However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) . |
| 4 | So , place all the flowers in one layer and the thicker buds or pieces of stalk in another . |
| 5 | The manager 's position is in one layer and the subordinate 's is in the next layer below . |
| 6 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
| 7 | The correlation between the two sets of risk ratings is of comparable magnitude to the correlations when a subset of the data from Studies 2 and 3 was compared with data from a similar rating scales study ( Groeger & Chapman 1992 , in preparation a ) , r(22)=0.66 for risk ratings , r(22)=0.71 for accident estimates and r(22)=0.83 for speed ratings ( though risk and accident estimates are on a 20 point scale in one case and a 7 point scale in the other ) . |
| 8 | What is found in studies of this question is that priming is not reduced when the primer is handwritten and the target printed ( Morton , 1978 ) or when the primer is in one case and the target is in another ( Scarborough , Cortese and Scarborough , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | In one case or the other , these are prescriptions for the examination of the producer more than the product . |
| 10 | Francis did n't mind the screens : he had seen so many wonders in one day that the miniature moving pictures seemed almost ordinary . |
| 11 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 12 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 13 | A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else . |
| 14 | He explained : ‘ We 're not really sure what happened the car cut out four or five times around the circuit in one lap and the only way to keep it going was to mess around with the ignition . |
| 15 | ‘ People can either do the walk in one spell or a bit every weekend , though they should complete it in a 12-month period ’ said Bill . |
| 16 | After the memory interacts with the system to be remembered , it will definitely be in one state or the other , according to the state of the system . |
| 17 | You do n't realise how many inflections are possible in one word and every important word the wrong inflection was used you know . |
| 18 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 19 | As for the idea that scallops might be cooked in one minute and no more , that old chef was genuinely outraged by it . |
| 20 | Thirty exit points would take no more room than the entrance to a multi-storey car park and the tunnel would carry one three-lane ‘ layer ’ of cars travelling in one direction and a bottom ‘ layer ’ travelling in the other . |
| 21 | It does not take much to imagine a situation in which the world 's foreign exchange markets are pushing the pound in one direction and the mark in the other . |
| 22 | There are plenty of other reasons for wanting to live there , with Carlingford Lough in one direction and the Mountains of Mourne in another : the physical beauty of Ulster is a secret as well-kept as the undemonstrative friendliness of its people . |
| 23 | It was not until she reached the age of specialization that she realized how well she had succeeded , although she had had her suspicions : but at the age of fifteen , at the moment of choice , the moment from which the Arts stretched away in one direction and the Sciences in another , never to meet again , she realized that Mrs Hill and Miss Haines had actually been fighting over her . |
| 24 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 25 | One is simply moved in one direction or the other in greater or lesser awareness . |
| 26 | To accept responsibility for a choice , I may judge it sufficient that I was closely attentive to the object before responding in one direction or the other . |
| 27 | In awareness from all spatial , temporal and personal viewpoints which are relevant to the issue ( = viewpoints from which I do find myself spontaneously moved in one direction or the other ) I find myself moved towards X , overlooking a relevant viewpoint I find myself moved towards Y. Be aware . |
| 28 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 29 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 30 | Each week , an average of 50,000 tons of food and material was brought up and some 90,000 men transported in one direction or the other , for Petain 's policy was to rotate his troops so that none should be in the ‘ cauldron of fire ’ for long . |