Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] of the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 2 | Reg. v. Philippou , 89 Cr.App.R. 290 disapproved of the decision in Reg. v. Roffel [ 1985 ] V.R. 511 , where a husband and wife ran a small clothing manufacturing business . |
| 3 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
| 4 | Giles Aplin rode from Burford and was delighted to learn of the improvement in her condition . |
| 5 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 6 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 7 | Benson and Hedges used to have similar problems with Wembley , in that reports of the tournament in America and Australia , for instance , inadvertently gave credit to their rivals . |