Example sentences of "in [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali . |
| 2 | However , it can not be discounted that the idea is to prepare for a direct dictatorship in case the democratic process again turns the country towards socialism . |
| 3 | We expected sabotage from the Labour extremists and hired two 100,000 watt generators in case the electrical sub-station was cut off . |
| 4 | It is common for the installation instructions to ask the licensed user to make a copy of the program first and use this as the working copy , placing the original disks in a safe place in case the working disks become damaged or corrupted in some way . |
| 5 | The image of the ‘ press baron ’ partly reflects literal reality : politicians continually courted publishers with peerages to secure or reward their support in case the intangible ‘ power of the press ’ turned out to be real . |
| 6 | He finally torpedoed his chances , already slender , by demanding that the French government underwrite his candidacy to the tune of 12,000,000 francs , in case the Spanish wearied of him as King . |
| 7 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 8 | In case the damn thing tore . |
| 9 | I 'm rolling up these things in case the wee dog gets them . |
| 10 | Emmy was away , in case the Royal Air Force came with bombs again , and Der Dicke was feeling frisky . |
| 11 | The Planning Policy which applies purely to the and the in case the sub Committee have already er discussed with etc etc for this . |
| 12 | He ordered the captain to display the royal standard on the stem , just in case the French believed they were pirates , as the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ began to run down alongside the galley . |
| 13 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 14 | Hang around with a nobody like Scott , knowing you never dare leave him in case the mad fucker tries to kill you ? |
| 15 | This was usually discouraged in case the wild ape became too dependent on hand-outs . |
| 16 | Coastguard shore parties were also checking the coastline from Aberystwyth to the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales in case the missing men had come ashore . |
| 17 | The first priority would be for the ground crews to make the bombs safe , then put out the fires and get the injured off , and everything done at top speed in case the whole lot went up . |
| 18 | Just in case the local chieftain decides to throw a grand party in your honour . |
| 19 | In case the hon. Gentleman has not noticed , we are in the process of replacing the poll tax . |
| 20 | Just in case the old man needed her . |
| 21 | In micro-chips , Philips , Siemens and the Italo-French SGS-Thomson together fund R&D for the ‘ super ’ microchips of the next — post-1990s — generation : in aerospace the Euro-consortium Airbus competes against Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the ESA 's Ariane against NASA 's space launchers . |
| 22 | In aerospace the American dominance requires little comment — it obtains in both aviation and space , both civil and military . |
| 23 | There was blood everywhere and in minutes the whole scene looked like Custer 's Last Stand . |
| 24 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 25 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 26 | In Islam the mystical is especially pronounced in the brotherhood of the Sufis . |
| 27 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 28 | In Warner the accused took a box of tools , intending to return them shortly . |
| 29 | With Kenny Milne ( centre ) in harness the Scots scrummage held up . |
| 30 | In Germany the average rate per ton-kilometre declined by 74 per cent between 1840 and 1880 . |