Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I yield to no one in my admiration for the great Iron Duke himself , but my favourite general of the Napoleonic wars was General Kutuzov . |
| 2 | Now … in my enthusiasm for the anecdotal aspect of all this I have neglected to mention the other half of Goffmann 's analysis of remedial procedure . |
| 3 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 4 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 5 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 6 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |
| 7 | ‘ Stay in my flat for a few days and enjoy what you can of the Carnival . |
| 8 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This has been in my mind for a long , long time . |
| 10 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 11 | The Conservatives remained dissatisfied with these arrangements and returned to the matter in their manifesto for the 1987 General Election . |
| 12 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 13 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 14 | The programmes were broadly similar in their call for a gradual transition to the market and a return to more state control . |
| 15 | They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it . |
| 16 | But the satellite companies will not only have a rising income from subscriptions and a need to invest it in their struggle for a credible share of the viewing audience . |
| 17 | ‘ We are not trying to force people to change , but to accompany them in their struggle for a better life , ’ he added . |
| 18 | For the blacks , too , the war proved an important stage in their quest for a better deal . |
| 19 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 20 | " Men were driven by greed and terror " in their quest for a new lord . |
| 21 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 22 | The nine republics gave qualified support in their pact for the anti-crisis programme which Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet on April 22 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Leinster have named a strong panel in their bid for the senior inter-provincials being staged in Dublin next weekend . |
| 24 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 25 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 26 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 27 | It was difficult to tell as , in their search for an individual expression of fashion , they had adopted what virtually amounted to a black uniform . |
| 28 | In their search for the key ingredients of the Japanese model , the Americans concluded that empowerment is an important aspect of achieving greater productivity from their workforce . |
| 29 | This year her team at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital and colleagues at Columbia University , New York have made significant progress in their search for the exact location of the gene for causing spinal muscular atrophy , a muscle-withering disease which is the leading inherited cause of infant death . |
| 30 | Rejecting the inherent conservatism of the traditional portrait , many artists have today tried to extend the definition of portraiture to embrace a level of experimentation sought necessary in their search for the true identity . |