Example sentences of "in [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He works with local Contractors whose work is to a high standard , and in whom he has full confidence . |
| 4 | In them you have real situations which are turned into stories with a message , which is just what I do with rap . ’ |
| 5 | " 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 17 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 18 | Meetings and feedback sessions in which they share local experiences have proved very valuable . |
| 19 | Health weeks , health fairs and specific campaigns such as ‘ Be better hearted ’ , ‘ Be fit ’ , ‘ Be all you can be ’ , ‘ Happy Heart ’ and ‘ Smokebusters ’ were mentioned by schools in both sectors as ways in which they promoted healthy practices . |
| 20 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 21 | We have reviewed the quota , as we have reviewed the range of ways in which we help disabled people into work , and we have decided to keep the quota under review , but the right hon. Gentleman knows of the difficulties in enforcing it . |
| 22 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |
| 23 | We must review and state the principal areas in which we hold environmental information — this could be done in our Annual Report . |
| 24 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 25 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 26 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 27 | Furthermore the sense in which we describe certain dilemmas , impulses , intuitions , or decisions as moral ones is notoriously imprecise . |
| 28 | Merely imagining the contexts in which we encounter electronic systems offers some ideas about the diversity of electronically stored information . |
| 29 | If we look at the ways in which we handle daily tasks , we shall probably find a strong ritual element there , and that a fair proportion of the setting-to-rights we do is as much for our personal well-being as from physical necessity . |
| 30 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |