Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 2 | There was no prof it in these thoughts . |
| 3 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 4 | Mark Dion , at the American Fine Arts Co , puts his conceptual installations to the service of our threatened ecology ( 11 April-4 May ) as does Yoko Ono hers in new sculptures entitled ‘ Endangered Species ’ at Vrej Baghoomian ( 18 April-15 May ) . |
| 5 | Those who truly love you will want to know the true you in any event . |
| 6 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 7 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 8 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 9 | People — to-day 's employees , yesterday 's students — have places us in this enviable position . |
| 10 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 11 | As he did so , he was all too aware of the ache and stiffness in his injured arm and leg , threatening to handicap him in any confrontation with an enemy . |
| 12 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 13 | That is a good illustration of the strength of the voluntary agreement approach to advertising and of the weakness of seeking to enshrine it in statutory to legal bounds . |
| 14 | After about twenty stamps , he gives a big sigh , pours out a glass of wine , downs it in one , swings his great leg out of the window and off he goes . ’ |
| 15 | Canada had been granted her federal constitution in 1867 ( British North America Act 1867 ) , Australia hers in 1901 ( Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 ) , and South Africa hers in 1909 ( Union of South Africa Act 1909 ) . |
| 16 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 17 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 18 | Why t why c why do they not communicate upwards and I think essentially people it in subordinate positions are about managing the impressions others have of them and tend to believe the notion , no matter how true it is , that er that organisations may have a shoot the messenger philosophy , yes ? |
| 19 | Canada had been granted her federal constitution in 1867 ( British North America Act 1867 ) , Australia hers in 1901 ( Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 ) , and South Africa hers in 1909 ( Union of South Africa Act 1909 ) . |
| 20 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 21 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 22 | ( It is also preferable to rug them in cold or wet weather , but they need to be under daily supervision in case the rug slips . ) |
| 23 | yes I see , I think er unfortunately doctor I in this particular case I ought to make an order for certificate for counsel erm in the current , in respect of the costs incurred below on the thirteenth of August seems to me do er the proper kind of case in which to instruct counsel . |
| 24 | Instead of saying hand it in next lesson . |
| 25 | Well I like it but got to use booklet an I erm supposed to hand it in you see ha I 'm going to hand it in next week . |
| 26 | ( iii ) Wash isolated cells through warm drops of M 16 + BSA ( Tables ) in non-adherent dishes ( e.g. Sterilin ) and culture them in small drops either singly or in groups . |
| 27 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 28 | ‘ If you agree to my helping you in that direction , then we 'll look at this situation again in a few weeks , when you 'll hopefully be in a more stable state of mind . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But if you really do n't like my kissing you in public , why do n't we go upstairs , where it 's more private ? |
| 30 | How much does all this cost you in lost production , lost business opportunities , inefficiency ? |