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Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1	In quality tents the seams often come ready-taped , in budget models we recommend that you buy some seam sealant and do the job yourself .
2	The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat .
3	It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others .
4	Yes they 'd like if they were in South Wales , in South Wales you know if your grandfather was a scab , you 'd be a scab would n't you , they carry it out in generations there .
5	There is no shortage of examples of defendants in rape cases who assumed that a woman who said no really meant yes , or who inferred from other supposed clues ( make-up , clothing , accepting a drink ) that the victim had consented , despite her apparent protests .
6	Bob ; Yeh , It 's in band D which means that my house comes between 45 and 58,000 ,
7	Considering the recent near-miraculous developments in fibre technology which mean that synthetic fabrics can now imitate everything from silk to rubber while they absorb sweat , change colour , fill in your tax returns and remix Michael Jackson singles , polyester and cotton ( at the cutting edge of style in about 1953 ) is an insult to our national game .
8	In Bible class we discussed whether the bread was indeed his body .
9	The result was seen as a vote of no confidence in the government 's economic anti-inflation stabilization programme , a mood reflected in opinion polls which indicated that only 26 per cent of Brazilians viewed the government positively .
10	That 's what in , in , in ground terms it means and we hope they will respond .
11	In East Suffolk it appeared that the Ipswich branch could provide a nucleus around which another successful enterprise might be constructed .
12	In co-evolution terms it means that herbivorous dinosaurs may have grown large as a means of attaining thermal stability .
13	Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring .
14	These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age .
15	In cross examination he accepted that there was no such reference in any report he had written in this case and agreed that quote , I do n't think I 've discussed Cheshire Homes before today , unquote .