Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 2 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 3 | Fear of hurting her in any way made him abrupt . |
| 4 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 5 | She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way . |
| 6 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 7 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 8 | However , Aglen 's appointment as inspector-general coincided with the anti-Manchu revolution of 1911–12 which resulted in the breakdown of the administrative arrangements of the Chinese , and faced by these unprecedented difficulties , Aglen made arrangements for the safety and integrity of customs revenue by placing it in foreign banks in his own name . |
| 9 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 10 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 11 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 12 | So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work . |
| 13 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 14 | This article does not propose to discuss philosophical , practical , theological or moral questions related to this subject but to take the opportunity of examining it in technical detail , as befits those who practise the science of embalming . |
| 15 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 16 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 17 | She would never forgive fitzAlan for putting her in this position , she promised herself . |
| 18 | I am not sure that the hon. Member for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) renders Mr. Hall 's case particular assistance in raising it in this fashion . |
| 19 | It is sometimes referred to as ‘ non-interventionist ’ observation , though I find that a rather jargonish term and I think bird-watching is a good simple way of referring to observation which is very similar to that of the ornithologist who constructs a ‘ hide ’ so as to be able to observe birds in their natural habitat without disturbing them in any way . |
| 20 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 21 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 22 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 23 | You , you can set as your tar as one of your targets to er you know just t t to sort of make it in smaller steps that you will have appraised two of your staff in th in |
| 24 | Well , they o , they have n't bothered up there , so I think people , I mean I was doing it , I was , she sort of shoved them in this thingie and I looked up and it said , green ! |
| 25 | What do you do , sort of buy them in fifty packs at Sainsburys ? |
| 26 | And you you you have to sort of attack it in that way . |
| 27 | Well this is and I noticed erm sort of do my in this particular one , she said she 's interested in North American Indians |
| 28 | If there is a problem , it 's that , while all the individual elements make sense , put together they generate an exhilarating overload of 24K sound and post-industrial fury which is in danger of signifying nothing in particular about cyberspace or anything else . |
| 29 | There is no point in involving me in this regrettable matter . ’ |
| 30 | In many respects deconstruction has not been avidly employed in analysing Renaissance texts and there is a certain contradiction in employing it in this study . |