Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Members for Birkenhead and for Halifax ( Mrs. Mahon ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield referred to my part in the events of 1990 . |
| 2 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I know there were criticisms of my form in the internationals against Canada and South Africa . |
| 4 | With my face in the folds of his jeans I smelt again the salt . |
| 5 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 6 | The largest of them lives in the rivers of Japan . |
| 7 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 8 | Ask yourself why , for example , no one has made The Pete Townshend Story , with its denouement in the offices of Faber & Faber publishing , or Jagger ! , complete with barnstorming finale in the pavilion at Lord 's . |
| 9 | ‘ She still manages to stick her fingers in the swabs with monotonous regularity , then she says ‘ Ooops ! ’ , grins and chucks them out and opens another pack . ’ |
| 10 | The Somerset and Avon Railway , which is working towards reopening the railway between Radstock and Frome , holds its sponsored walk and fun day at its headquarters in the sidings in Radstock . |
| 11 | That is why we have pursued its progress in the changes of society , as well as through individual story-telling . |
| 12 | One possibility seems to be a corridor effect in which improvements in the links between major centres ( the ‘ grands poles Europeens ) reinforce their dominance at the expense of regions in between . |
| 13 | Rights , which constitute the groundwork of the State , inhere in individuals by virtue of their being members of society : ‘ A State which neglects them fails to build its foundations in the hearts of its citizens . ’ |
| 14 | In appreciating the contemporary cultural mosaic , therefore , we must appreciate its foundations in the accommodations between communities and their environments in the creation of social structures as ‘ machines for living ’ . |
| 15 | These questions have lost nothing of their force in the decades since 1914 as subsequent conflicts have contributed their own appalling demonstration of man 's capacity for inhumanity , and as a new sensitivity has developed to the dilemmas facing the human race and to the degree of inequality and injustice in human affairs in general . |
| 16 | But most of the foreign exchange , gilts and swaps dealers still had their eyes on the ball , rather than their heads in the clouds of political speculation . |
| 17 | The Profitboss does not tolerate consultant academics , people who have their heads in the clouds with the latest theories and who peddle new-fangled pseudo-scientific systems . |
| 18 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 19 | It has fewer benefits to dispense than previously , yet is faced with a plethora of interests , each of which is unwilling to moderate its demands in the interests of all . |
| 20 | The Sublime Porte will grant the Servians , on their petition , the same privileges which her subjects in the Islands of the Archipelago , and in other parts , enjoy ; and will moreover confer upon them a mark of her generosity , by leaving the administration of their internal affairs to themselves — by imposing upon them moderate taxes , and receiving them only direct from them and by making the regulation requisite to this end in an understanding with the Servian nation themselves . |
| 21 | With her temperament , surely she 'd have brought the roof in if she 'd discovered her lover in the arms of another woman ? |
| 22 | RHYL Football Club will put their future in the hands of members and season ticket holders at a special general meeting in the Town Hall tomorrow night . |
| 23 | Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici announced on March 6 that he was resigning as leader of the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) , following its defeat in the elections of Feb. 22 [ see p. 38784 ] ; he proposed George Vella as his successor . |
| 24 | It involves the centralisation of power and its concentration in the hands of experts ( such as prison governors , teachers , factory managers ) with special knowledge . |
| 25 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 26 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 27 | Political realism is the oldest , and potentially the most influential , approach to global politics , having its origins in the wars between the city-states of ancient Greece and claiming among its antecedents the writings of Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes . |
| 28 | The QWERTY keyboard has its origins in the days of early mechanical typewriters . |
| 29 | The British government is sponsoring a proposal for a European Community ban on the import of tropical wild birds because of the high death rates they suffer during transport to Europe after their capture in the forests of Africa and South America . |
| 30 | They put their feet in the rabbit-runs between the dead . |