Example sentences of "[pron] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I in relation to the above |
| 2 | And part of the mystery of our existence , is if they we If we give ourselves in faith to God , even in the small and inauspicious ways , the consequences of doing that might be enormous . |
| 3 | We linked ourselves in solidarity to other nationalist struggles . |
| 4 | There is today a growing awareness of ourselves in relation to our environment . |
| 5 | In an ideal world , If we all became truly aware of ourselves in relation to others , there would be no need for greed or violence — but we are still far from our ideal world . |
| 6 | In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people . |
| 7 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 8 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 9 | My record will stand alongside his in relation to the future of mining in Scotland or in relation to any miners in Midlothian . |
| 10 | Her trembling body was curving and lifting itself to the hardness of his in obedience to the quickening in her loins , a fierily hollow quivering , the force at the centre of a storm of sensation . |
| 11 | On the ground Husayn worked to maintain the loyalty of the municipal structure , which remained in place after Israel 's occupation , through subsidies and through Israel 's open bridge policy , which in addition to relieving the pressures on the West Bank population , gave him considerable control over a large proportion of that population . |
| 12 | Weightman and Bullen Ltd were appointed by the Governors to undertake the re-development of the St. Vincent Road site with a brief , which in addition to the specialist and general teaching requirements , incorporated the need for essential modifications , specifically , increased staff accommodation/toilets , improved Administration facilities and a general improvement in pupil toilet provision , to cater for the increased population of the School . |
| 13 | He was a passionate tourer , always in motion , descending on his Residents with floods of instructions which resumed their unceasing flow as soon as he returned to headquarters ; and long before Northern Nigeria was brought under effective British occupation , he was composing his Political Memoranda , which in addition to his reflections on the subject of Indirect Rule contained instructions to his officers of a comprehensiveness simply beyond satire . |
| 14 | Third , an incentive scheme which in addition to the basic rate aims to offer a monetary reward in exchange for increased productivity from the operative . |
| 15 | Observers agree that the soft drink sector is an altogether better bet for the company , which in addition to its strong Schweppes brands has added most of Perrier 's non-water brands and the best-selling Euro-brand Gini to its portfolio in the past two years . |
| 16 | Since 1974 Niue has been a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand , which in addition to providing economic assistance , has responsibility for the territory 's defence and foreign policy . |
| 17 | Since 1965 the 15 Cook Islands have been a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand , which in addition to providing economic assistance , has responsibility for the territory 's defence and foreign policy . |
| 18 | This is probably related to an increase in the exposure of the colonic epithelial cells to short chain fatty acids ( SCFA ) , which in addition to being a possible energy source for the cells , may also promote cellular proliferation . |
| 19 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 20 | I am not familiar with this procedure which in relation to a request for discovery ( provided the request is generally in order ) or the administering of interrogatories does not conform with the practice described in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , vol. 1 , paras . |
| 21 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 22 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |
| 23 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 24 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 25 | Nephew of John Moores , founder of the Littlewoods pools empire , he had had little to do with the business when he found suddenly himself in line to the throne . |
| 26 | Once again , the male homosexual is someone who refuses to risk himself in relation to the other , but now the risk is not in relation to the opposite sex ( as in Scruton and Mailer ) , but to the same sex as rival . |
| 27 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 28 | And about himself in relation to her . |
| 29 | Early in the morning , in the grey cold light that precedes the rising sun , he positioned himself in trees to the east of the lake but out of sight of it . |
| 30 | Continuing on down the street the Ahearns , a Catholic family who were all of small stature , the Frys , another quiet family and the Vincents who in contrast to the Ahearns were all well built — in fact the sons could all have made good guardsmen . |