Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
2 | It was Massine 's ballets which suited him best , especially Mam'zelle Angot , in which he took several parts at different times ; the sardonic humour he showed as the bootmaker in the market scene still lingers in my memory . |
3 | Moreover , for most people the law these institutions make is the law that counts in their lives . |
4 | Though we did not measure reticulocyte counts in our patients there was no evidence from the blood films of significant reticulocytosis or polychromasia and it seems unlikely that this explanation might have contributed to our results . |
5 | Her features are pronounced enough already , and much of her attractiveness lies in her sense of style and good grooming . |
6 | Her eventual release can only come about through the death of Doc and the proof of her recovery lies in her willingness to participate in a wedding-feast . |
7 | Her best known novel , Memoirs of the Emperor Hadrian , is a work of scholarship and fiction , but , unlike the narratologists , she believed in the truth of history and the often melancholy tone of her writing lies in her regret that the dead have no more truthful memorial than that which the living can provide . |
8 | Artist Richard Stone has captured in her eyes and the set of her face the steely determination of a woman who knows that the very survival of the monarchy lies in her hands alone . |
9 | The basis for education 's ability to bring about this process of social reproduction lies in what Bourdieu terms cultural capital . |
10 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
11 | From this position , the significance of a school lies in its relationship with the " workshops " responsible for individual mosaics ( these appear to be — almost exclusively — the work of the same craftsman/men ) . |
12 | One indicator of the SLD 's campaigning strength lies in its performance compared with that of the Greens . |
13 | The particular characteristic of twentieth-century harmonization lies in its motivation , which is to reduce the impact of national boundaries . |
14 | However the merit of Fei 's book lies in its functionalist style . |
15 | It seems that the central significance of economic support in families lies in its reliability : you always know that you can fall back upon the support of relatives if necessary and that this will be regarded as a legitimate request . |
16 | The strength of any restaurant business lies in its reputation — you are only as good as the last meal you have served — and in order to preserve the high standards that have brought this business so very far , Forte need people who can match the best in the industry : people with some supervisory level experience under their belts ; with a real commitment to customer service , lots of enthusiasm and driving ambition . |
17 | The importance of the Cosmeston project lies in its scale . |
18 | Eurocommunism 's distinctiveness lies in its determination to avoid a Soviet-style one party state . |
19 | Much of the interest in the experimental modification in Ingolstadt lies in its treatment of a heavily trafficked ring road , as will be seen in Chapter Ten . |
20 | Part of Nicaragua 's claim to be a ‘ freer ’ society lies in its treatment of offenders . |
21 | The value of this algorithm lies in its behaviour on off-track nodes , i.e. nodes not on the correct path . |
22 | The fact is that the pace towards a federal Europe is quickening and there is now very little , save the Danes and the British Parliament , which lies in its way . |
23 | Its interest lies in its function as the creed of a reforming élite , confronted with the difficulties of a state-sponsored economic revival in an under-developed economy , a revival that had to contend with the resistances of the traditional structure and the misrepresentations of a peculiarly narrow Catholic conservatism . |
24 | ‘ The beauty o' the game , as I see it , lies in its impredictability . |
25 | Firstly , modernist fiction 's most obvious and celebrated innovation lies in its focalization of the novel in the minds or private narratives of its characters . |
26 | It is often claimed that one of the most conspicuous shortcomings of Keynesian macroeconomics lies in its lack of a coherent theory of aggregate supply . |
27 | If the city 's culture lies in its heritage , its great literary tradition — Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett , O'Casey and all that — then surely the celebrations must involve a recognition that they found the city less than congenial and got out as soon as they could ? |
28 | A popular resort , its beaches stretch for miles and the city 's particular charm lies in its past — we visited underground Minoan tombs and explored an old Venetian town , dominated by a well-preserved fortezza and mosques dating from as early as 1670 . |
29 | The main importance of the virus , however , lies in its capacity to infect the foetus in utero . |
30 | Part of its sorcery lies in its ability to instil the same exhilaration from a short run up the road on a Sunday morning , but most of it comes from that aggressive thrust of power that is always more than enough for any driving situation . ’ |