Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ They have declared in their great folly to challenge the conquering force of the modern age . |
| 2 | This is n't true , the logging practices were atrocious , and even tribal burial grounds have been uprooted by the loggers , and the number of deaths last year , in 1989 , logging deaths was 94 , because they 're sending loggers up even steep slopes to get the timber than they would normally , so there 's actually a lot of bad practice going on , so we 're hoping to fund Friends of the Earth , Malaysia in their environmental programme to help the indigenous people defend themselves , and therefore the forest better . |
| 3 | A distinct picture of Anthea Darnell 's fingernails materialised in Montgomery 's mind , the small defects in their pristine surface reflecting the niggling misgivings he had experienced during the interview . |
| 4 | The crop will be examined to ensure that the potatoes have not been altered in any way other than in their new ability to manufacture the lectin protein . |
| 5 | It should be remembered that the personal representatives of a deceased partner do not in their official capacity have the right to participate in the business of the firm . |
| 6 | But on the planet Kembel , Space Security agent Bret Vyon has unearthed evidence that the Daleks plan to attack Earth and acquire the Solar System as the first move in their overall ambition to rule the entire Universe . |
| 7 | Examples given in Scott v. Scott [ 1913 ] A.C. 417 include wardship proceedings which might fail in their primary purpose to protect the interests of the ward if they took place public . |
| 8 | They persuade golfers to pay out at least $1 billion a year worldwide in their eternal quest to hit the ball farther , straighter , less often . |
| 9 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 10 | The regional TUC in their quarterly review claimed the recent budget did nothing to tackle the problems facing the region . |
| 11 | In their initial statement announcing the impending release on April 18 , the IJLP had cited the " urgent appeals " of the Iranian government and " permanent Syrian efforts " . |
| 12 | The Article 7 argument would have allowed Germany to continue with its opt-out provision for the benefit of employees , but the argument does not imply that countries , such as the UK , which in their national legislation make the transfer compulsory upon both employee and employer , are acting inconsistently with Community law . |
| 13 | It is also relevant to notice that Horvath and Sankoff ( 1987 ) in their Australian work found the social variables the most difficult to deal with and the linguistic variables ‘ well defined ’ . |
| 14 | On the newsreels at the cinema we saw pictures of de Gaulle riding in triumph through the streets , swastikas being torn down , ecstatic Parisiennes in their un-bombed city kissing the troops and giving them flowers . |
| 15 | The fleeces from the fell sheep in their natural state produced the hodden cloth , which later became familiar to all in the song about John Peel : ‘ D'ye ken John Peel with his cote swae grey ’ ( Woodcock Graves ) . |
| 16 | To this extent it is the same process that we encountered with NBFIs in section 4.2 and is a further indication of the way in which continuous innovation affects the ‘ information content ’ of key indicators . |
| 17 | This Part will examine the topic of treaties and third parties in an attempt to determine the circumstances in which international law accommodates the interests of third parties , and the reasoning by which this is done . |
| 18 | Evolution by natural selection could not be faster than the mutation rate , for mutation is , ultimately , the only way in which new variation enters the species . |
| 19 | To understand the significance of their involvement , however , and the direction in which republican influence took the civil rights movement , it is necessary to examine carefully the political strategy of the republicans in the mid-1960s . |
| 20 | This can be seen from the way in which occupational segregation thwarts the effective implementation of the Equal Pay Act . |
| 21 | A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement . |
| 22 | It is possible , roughly speaking , to sum up under four main headings the different ways in which literary stylistics views the language or style of literature : as embellishment , as self-reference , as representation and as manner . |
| 23 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 24 | We shall return to the way In which linguistic choice determines the nature of mental experience in Chapter 6 . |
| 25 | One way in which rapid accumulation undermines the conditions for its own existence is by creating a mass proletariat . |
| 26 | With a painter father and a musician mother , it might not have been easy to decide in which artistic direction to steer the young Sylvestra . |
| 27 | The situation was complicated by Minton 's affection for and affinity with Henrietta who has been compared with a Suffragette in her absolute determination to defeat the pressures of convention . |
| 28 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 29 | Her dark grey eyes in her pale face had the look of one who had been crying fairly often and recently . |
| 30 | But in its final committee stages the clauses giving the police greater powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers were revised , rendering them almost useless . |