Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] for the [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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Leinster have named a strong panel in their bid for the senior inter-provincials being staged in Dublin next weekend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | DETECTIVES have raided a house in their hunt for the brutal killer of a Hartlepool man . |
| 12 | Furthermore , law and the state afford ‘ an arena for class struggle ’ ( 1979 : 299 ) in which victory for the ruling class is not necessarily assured . |
| 13 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
| 14 | Punctual , reliable and sensible , she carried a rape alarm in her car for the two-minute drive from home to the sports centre where she worked . |
| 15 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 16 | She argues that , before the Public Order Act 1986 was passed , ‘ it was the moral panic surrounding football hooliganism which the government used in its publicity for the new law . |
| 17 | The company has used a modified version of the design in its proposal for the European Teraflop initiative . |
| 18 | At first he was greeted by shouts and catcalls and Corbett wondered if the galley would refuse to heave-to and continue in its dash for the open sea . |
| 19 | For all its faults , it can at least be said for the modern world that it has produced a substantial body of articulate opinion that blends passion with compassion in its concern for the impoverished and starving peoples of the world . |
| 20 | We contemplate past failures of humankind in its search for the perfect society and become depressed . |
| 21 | However , both bodies recommended changes in the form of legislation which would , if implemented , have assisted the court in its search for the true Parliamentary intention in using the statutory words . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend will know that the National Audit Office has in its programme for the current financial year an examination of flood and coast protection programmes . |
| 23 | His brother-in-law wrote in a memoir that on his return to Turvey in 1829 , Higgins was ‘ unremitting in his solicitude for the poor of the parish ’ . |
| 24 | He had an impeccable sense of rhythm , not in the metronomic , military sense of the term but in his feel for the real inner rhythm of the music he was conducting . |
| 25 | In Acton he would hold meetings in his home for the local people . |
| 26 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 27 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 28 | This English pantomime tradition Ashton also exploited earlier in his choreography for the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella where he followed the tradition that one is always a somewhat modest violet bossed about by her dragon of a sister . |
| 29 | He had just settled in his seat for the 10-hour journey from the Caribbean , when the captain called for a doctor . |
| 30 | This Act was quickly passed following comments made by the Auditor General in his report for the fiscal year ended 31 March 1976 In that report the Auditor General had declared that ( p. 9 ) : |