Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
| 2 | The bird must also know in which direction the echo-producing obstacle lies . |
| 3 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 4 | Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them . |
| 5 | A hectic social life could cost a packet so you might have to pull in your horns a wee bit . |
| 6 | There , the defendant company , which operated a large number of supermarkets , had instituted in their stores an effective system to prevent the commission of an offence . |
| 7 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 8 | The Piaroa recognize marriage exchange as an exceedingly dangerous principle to act upon , a lesson they receive from the events of the mythic past which was a time when each marriage alliance between strangers carried in its wake a deadly competition for the poisonous cultural capabilities of predation . |
| 9 | Once , like many Londoners , Alice had carried in her head a basic tube map , at least of inner London , but she had forgotten it . |
| 10 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 11 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 12 | When a mother instils in her daughter a strong sense of obligation towards the house , to keeping it clean , tidy , impeccably dusted , the daughter in her turn may find herself either an unhappy slave to these expectations , or else determinedly anarchic in her own home . |
| 13 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 14 | We will now see if it is possible to state in what circumstances the different tones are used within the very limited context of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ said in isolation . |
| 15 | The business men came , we heard , the Chancellor listened , and he has incorporated in his proposals a large number of deregulatory measures , which will ease cash flow and make it easier to deal with the VAT man and the Inland Revenue . |
| 16 | As John Fairchild noted in his book The Fashionable Savages in 1965 : ‘ She looks best wearing what no one else would ever wear , something so simple another lady would n't dare … |
| 17 | Indeed , most of us hold in our heads a stereotyped notion of ‘ the scientist ’ or ‘ the artist ’ . |
| 18 | But Kane was right when he identified in his letter a broad-and-loose Melody Maker aesthetic that prefers transports to truths , rapture to appreciation , magic to meaning , the letting loose of ecstasy to the clench of commitment . |
| 19 | We also confirm in our patients the previous observations made in normal subjects by Green et al , concerning the evolution of endocrine cell densities with age . |
| 20 | The general implications of this view of life are explained and elaborated in my book The Extended Phenotype , and I sha n't repeat the arguments here . |
| 21 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 22 | Archer is lamentably underrated as a writer by the literati , but future critics will see in his work a detailed analysis of politics in our time . |
| 23 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 24 | Although Rembrandt signed every painting that was produced in his studios a large number were actually painted by his students . |
| 25 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 26 | For a man so rooted in his domesticity the nomadic life of the Official War Artist was a gamble . |
| 27 | Numerous people ran into debt from being unable or unwilling to settle their credit card accounts at all or in full each month , and allowing their purchases to grow in price as every month passed , but the sums people in Britain owed in this way was a very small proportion of the total outstanding personal credit granted , which in 1987 Janet Ford reckoned in her book The Indebted Society was £30,000 million . |
| 28 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 29 | Consequently , pupils should keep in their files the necessary range and variety of types of writing , including where appropriate any rough notes , plans or early drafts . |
| 30 | To give policyholders the security they need the Society , like any other responsible motor insurer , includes in its premiums a prudent allowance for the effect of future inflation on the cost of claims . |