Example sentences of "in [noun sg] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just in case at some future date we find ourselves needing to refer back to our agreement . ’ |
| 2 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 3 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 4 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 5 | In October 1984 we analysed the proposal documents from all the 23 Major Project schools in existence at that date , for whom documentation was readily available . |
| 6 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 7 | It does seem that since the last investigation certain development work , " Minerall Adventures , " had been carried out and it is possible that this was in progress at that time . |
| 8 | Liberal deputies countered this argument by pointing out that " rampant privatization " was already in progress at all levels , including the state administration [ see dacha scandal below ] . |
| 9 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |
| 10 | The 9% unsecured loan stock is redeemable at par on 31 May 1995 or , at the Company 's option , in whole or in part at any time in the preceding five years . |
| 11 | The 12% unsecured loan stock is redeemable at par on 31 May 2000 or , at the Company 's option , in whole or in part at any time in the preceding five years . |
| 12 | Any differences might be attributed , in part at any rate , to contrasts between the two schemes , the most obvious of which , of course , is compulsion . |
| 13 | Rainoldes apart , the transgressions associated with the boy players , be they actual or imagined , rendered the theatrical self-consciousness surrounding transvestism complex and shifting ; it provoked questions teasingly unanswerable : for example — and this is a question which remains intriguing for us today — which , or how many , of the several gender identities embodied in any one figure are in play at any one time ? |
| 14 | Should British researchers hold up their hands in horror at this further shameful symptom of the failure of the United Kingdom to innovate ? |
| 15 | Make 2 slits in pastry at each end of filling to form a flap . |
| 16 | Whether we were Members of Parliament in the 1970s or not , many of us will remember the many debates on devolution that took place in Parliament at that time . |
| 17 | ( 11 ) If a licensing board is not elected at the time at which it ought to be elected , or an insufficient number of members is elected for a board , the Secretary of State may by order provide for the holding of an election or elections for supplying such fault or deficiency in election at such times and in such manner as he may think expedient . |
| 18 | The criteria may offer guidelines as to standards appropriate to grade levels and may in addition at any grade level be split into separate features of the mathematical investigation , leading to a set of marks or grades which then have to be aggregated in some way . |
| 19 | I mean that 's what I thought this movement towards egalitarianism is n't , does n't actually reflect any change in ideology at all . |
| 20 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 21 | She flung back the bedclothes and released a breath of pent-up fury , shaking her head in disbelief at that man 's ill-temper , at his supreme superiority . |
| 22 | Minor subjects can easily be overlooked , and may not be represented in stock at all . |
| 23 | ‘ By this method we believe that we will get a more appropriate range into the stores , and that those titles with be maintained in stock at all times . |
| 24 | The Articles were registered in 1953 under the CA 1948 , and except for a few standard exclusions , largely adopt Table A , in force at that time . |
| 25 | The stricter licencing laws were in force at that time , of course . |
| 26 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 27 | THE big names of British showbusiness were out in force at this year 's Royal Variety Show — but it was overseas performers who milked the loudest applause . |
| 28 | In its early years the new police force had poor relations with headmen , and there is no indication of any general decline in crime at this time . |
| 29 | It had , of course , once more the Eastern Orthodox Churches in mind at that point , but again the principle is no less valid in regard to all other Christian Churches . |
| 30 | But let me say immediately I do not have Miss Kenton in mind at all when I say this . |