Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He had an impeccable sense of rhythm , not in the metronomic , military sense of the term but in his feel for the real inner rhythm of the music he was conducting .
4 Neither of these was adopted — the executed bridge was a conventional masonry structure of three arches — but in his design for the Coalbrookdale bridge , made in 1775 , he adapted some of the principles of the timber proposal to a structure wholly of cast iron ; and it was a modified version of this design which was executed by the Coalbrookdale Ironworks in 1777–9 — the first iron bridge in the world .
5 In this , as in his support for the elaboration of monastic customs , Anselm 's expansiveness stands in striking contrast both to the intimacy and austerity of his personal devotion , and to the new trend towards simplicity and severity which this type of devotion stimulated among the Cistercians .
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