Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] in an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 2 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 3 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 4 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 5 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 6 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 7 | Aside from that , it 's a system that adopts a metaphor that everyone is familiar with and implements it in an intuitive way . |
| 8 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 9 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 10 | But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day . |
| 11 | I think that the hatred and suspicion that Catholic and Protestants have of each other in the North locks them in an Eastern-European time-warp . |
| 12 | If she can find the slightest little thing that sort of effects her in an adverse manner |
| 13 | It leaves it in an indefensible position . |