Example sentences of "in [pron] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 2 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 3 | This unleashed such a storm of protest , in which branches in the Eastern District played their full part , that the government quickly backed down . |
| 4 | There is a familiar line of business thought behind Gencor 's break-up , in which shares in the four non-mining subsidiaries will be returned to the conglomerate 's shareholders . |
| 5 | This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) . |
| 6 | It had adopted some of the theology of sixteenth-century Reformers and some of the learning of nineteenth-century Protestant scholars , but very little of it was genuinely very modern in terms of the second half of the twentieth century , and hardly anything in it challenged in the slightest the more basic dogmas of Catholic theology , Trinitarian , incarnational and sacramental . |