Example sentences of "in [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no one in this world in whom I have greater trust . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very pleased with my visit to Kano ’ , he wrote to its emir , ‘ and I am glad to have seen you again , for I regard you as my personal friend , in whom I place entire confidence and trust . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 4 | He works with local Contractors whose work is to a high standard , and in whom he has full confidence . |
| 5 | In thee I defy all men , their worst hates , |
| 6 | In them you have real situations which are turned into stories with a message , which is just what I do with rap . ’ |
| 7 | " You search the scriptures " , Jesus once replied to his critics , " because you think that in them you have eternal life ; and it is they that bear witness to me . |
| 8 | And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication . |
| 9 | What are the circumstances in which they use this word and what are their attitudes to a person thus described ? |
| 10 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 11 | They can formulate hypotheses about reference on the basis of the contexts in which they hear new words , and , with the help of Contrast , they also start out with a strong guiding principle about relations among word senses . |
| 12 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 13 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 14 | I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant . |
| 15 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 16 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 17 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 18 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 19 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 20 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 21 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 22 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 23 | Decisions as to the proportion in which they hold these assets , in other words the nature of their portfolio management , determine how the sector as a whole fulfils the function of allocating the community 's savings to those who wish to borrow . |
| 24 | They are daytime hunters , flying with their six legs crooked in front of them to form a tiny basket in which they catch smaller insects . |
| 25 | The pursuit of this line of enquiry will encompass a discussion of the complex and historically fluid relationship between needs and wants , including the ways in which they ground moral claims . |
| 26 | We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services . |
| 27 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 28 | Students should be advised to keep a " Difficulties Diary " in which they note those items , both phonological and grammatical , which causes them particular difficulty . |
| 29 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
| 30 | The astonishing peculiarity of human beings , as distinct from other animals , is the great variety of ways in which they achieve these ends . |