Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 3 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 4 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 5 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 6 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 7 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 8 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 10 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 11 | An early picture shows her in a wide-brimmed black hat and white dress owned by Sarah . |
| 12 | Antoine Bloye not only clarifies the meaning of Antoine 's life and in the process immortalises it in a negative exemplary narrative . |
| 13 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 14 | Labour 's change of policy on the European Community puts it in a strong position to argue that economic and industrial decisions are increasingly likely to be made on a European basis and it is essential that Britain plays a more constructive role . |
| 15 | TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment . |
| 16 | There is general recognition that , although social workers and their agencies can not combat the structural causes of social problems , their knowledge of the effects of poverty and other disadvantages places them in a unique position to influence social policies ( Wharf , 1985 ; Townsend et al . , |
| 17 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 18 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 19 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 20 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 21 | The economy finds itself in a suboptimal state of temporary equilibrium at point C owing to a sales constraint on output : firms would ideally like to produce Y * ; output and employ L * ; workers but , being unable to sell all of this output and employ this number of workers , they are obliged to produce a level of output Y 1 compatible with constraint on sales and hence employ only L 1 workers . |
| 22 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 23 | Parliament changes nothing in the physical world by passing laws . |
| 24 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 25 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 26 | Another approach to ATP for a date change seems certain and do not be surprised if this time the pressure from the players points it in a different direction . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 28 | Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood . |
| 29 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 30 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |