Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] in [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such theories are parasitic on an implicit understanding that law is a type of instrument adapted to specific important purposes , and such theories are of little guidance in thinking through the role of international law in controlling force for they can suggest no more than a mimicking of the institutions of municipal law without regard to the purposes of having such or similar institutions in the international context . |
| 2 | Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 . |
| 3 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 4 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 5 | He understood now , all right , and there was some comfort in taking on the complete burden of guilt , a kind of purgative sense of martyrdom , not unrelated to self-pity . |
| 6 | That is why , Kathleen told herself , she took such pleasure in packing up the parcels . |
| 7 | There was very little inconvenience in leaving out the butter and salad cream , and I have enjoyed the diet even more whilst watching the inches disappear , and enjoying being complimented on how much slimmer I look . |
| 8 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 9 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 10 | His success in summoning up the devil he knew blinded him to any awareness of his own part in bringing about the final outcome . |