Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunters do not portray the hunt in ways that could be construed as aggressive , either in the hunter 's emotional state or in his attitude to the prey . |
| 2 | But perhaps also we tend even more to suppress recognition of sexual elements in the child 's feeling for us — or in our feeling for the child . |
| 3 | The poetic work too should be viewed as a ‘ functional structure ’ ( p.46 ) , the different elements of which can not be understood except in their connections with the whole . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that the advent of the motor car and the provision of better roads — although in my part of the world we would argue strongly for road improvement mean that people exercise greater personal choice . |
| 5 | Homi Bhabha finds that Fanon most profoundly evokes the colonial condition not in his yearning for ‘ the total transformation of Man and Society ’ , nor in his appeal to the human essence ( though ‘ he lapses into such a lament in his more existential moment ’ ) , but in his understanding of the workings of ‘ image and fantasy — those orders that figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , p. xiii ) . |
| 6 | This implies in turn that in its use with the modal auxiliaries the bare infinitive can be analysed as expressing a potentiality coinciding in time with another potentiality ( the modal 's event ) . |
| 7 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 8 | It is salutary that in their report on the dangers of long waiting times for outpatient appointments at a urology clinic K German and colleagues say that five of the seven cases of prostatic cancer were detected on rectal examination and one by a raised serum prostate specific antigen concentration . |
| 9 | He said that in her disdain for the laws of our land she had humiliated the honour of her family name ; there was no other course possible for her family to take . |
| 10 | Then he looked across at her and , though she was silent , still he knew that in his invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish and in his terrible promise , he had done right . |
| 11 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that in his appraisal of the provincial situation in 1912 , Wilson was right . |
| 13 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 14 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 15 | As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success . |
| 16 | Well we know that in our company by the jobs lost , we know that in the Midland region because it could be a loss of up to ten percent of our membership , six thousand members . |
| 17 | The UDA now boasts 10,000 members , 30,000 fewer than in its heyday in the early 70s . |
| 18 | Although historians have differed somewhat less in their interpretations of the religious history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods than in their views on the turbulent years between 1530 and 1560 , there have , none the less , been a number of notable areas of dispute . |
| 19 | They have been found deficient in their prescriptive capacity rather than in their analysis of the social structure of organizations ( of which they say very little ) . |
| 20 | If there is a standard of comparison for the USSR 's wartime losses , it lies in McNamara 's statistics , rather than in our experience of the Second World War . |
| 21 | You could be no further from danger than in our apartments above the stables . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's so much more congenial to meet here than in my office at the radio . ’ |
| 23 | And so it was not with any special disappointment that Tate envisaged how Eliot 's message , his distinctively American apprehension of Europe , might thereafter be conveyed less in poems than in his conduct of The Criterion , the magazine he had begun to edit in 1923 : |
| 24 | Nowhere does Edward 's political skill emerge more clearly than in his relations with the papacy . |
| 25 | This tin of nuts was a continual source of nourishment to my brother and myself until in his exasperation at the fast-diminishing level of nuts my Father moved the tin out of our reach . |
| 26 | Such frissons of jealousy , petulance and energy-consuming rivalry in presentation are still not unknown in the School Council 's genetically different grandchild , the National Curriculum Council , and in its relationship with the DES . |
| 27 | Despite its roads Sussex prospered , both as an almost self-sufficient country , and in its contacts with the outside world . |
| 28 | However , the state also performs certain hegemonic functions too , justifying its own existence and authority in the rhetoric of the courts and in its celebration of the nation . |
| 29 | The value of the USRC lies in its long-term contribution to Conservative policy and in its re-creation of the tradition of Conservative reform that perished with Randolph Churchill . |
| 30 | Ignorance leads to frustration and ( because science is so obviously powerful , both in the depth of its ideas and in its effects on the world ) to fear . |