Example sentences of "in [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having achieved power in certain situations , the military has great difficulty in maintaining it without the support of other important groups in society . |
| 2 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 3 | take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look |
| 4 | She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship . |
| 5 | Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs . |
| 6 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 7 | Their problems are not likely to be solved unless this aspect of them is dealt with and some skill may be necessary in drawing it into the light . |
| 8 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 9 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 10 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 11 | Insults apart , the kernel of the argument was that , whereas More considered the Scriptures to be committed to the Pope and hierarchy for interpretation , Tyndale believed that they belonged to every Christian , who would be guided in understanding them by the spirit of God . |
| 12 | When a group is unknown , the advantage lies with the record company in signing them on the company 's terms . |
| 13 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 14 | Common Law found a difficulty in protecting him against the stranger . |
| 15 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 16 | Richard was quite correct , as technically speaking they were all in harbour , in addressing them by the names of their craft . |
| 17 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 18 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 19 | He goes on to say ‘ In presenting us with the award for Lafayette , the judges believe that the new range has outstanding sales potential . |
| 20 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 21 | However , there 's no doubt that a usp puts the creative team in a stronger position than not having one , as long as he or she succeeds in selling it to the public . |
| 22 | In directing it at the targets they did , however , they produced effects that feminists such as Josephine Butler might have eventually found abhorrent . |
| 23 | Such childish poeticizing is reinforced , in directing us to the level of the infant , by the ‘ penny for the Old Guy ’ epigraph , by the dressing up as a scarecrow , and by the nursery rhyme , ‘ Twinkle twinkle little star ’ , which inescapably underlies the line ‘ Under the twinkle of a fading star ’ . |
| 24 | Although I know that my hon. Friend is interested in switching it to the autumn , we have no plans to do that because there are different views about it . |
| 25 | The company 's delays in reporting it to the NRC led the engineers to do so themselves . |
| 26 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 27 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 28 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 30 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |