Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [pron] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 2 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 3 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 4 | No water emerges from the exit , the stream electing to sink in its bed a short distance inside . |
| 5 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | The coroner made a mental note to include in his treatise a special chapter on the cleaning of the ditch . |
| 7 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 8 | He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport : he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit . |
| 9 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |