Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within fifteen minutes everyone in the cast — apart from me — was talking about this . |
| 2 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 3 | Due to the housing and building recession everyone in the stock market knew it would be reporting dreadful figures this week . |
| 4 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 5 | An ancient monument is ‘ any scheduled monument ’ and ‘ any other monument which in the opinion of the secretary of state is of public interest by reason of the historic , architectural , traditional , artistic or archaeological interest attaching to it ’ . |
| 6 | Here are the real facts : Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly . |
| 7 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 8 | An Assured Shorthold Tenant may make an application to a Rent Assessment Committee for a determination of the rent which in the opinion of the Committee the landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain for the property . |
| 9 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 10 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 11 | The story told her unconscious that to follow Hansel 's lead led her back , not forward , and it was also meaningful that although Hansel was the leader at the story 's beginning , it was Gretel who in the end achieved freedom and independence for both , because it was she who defeated the witch . |
| 12 | Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go . |
| 13 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 14 | There is no evidence that addictive disease arises from traumas of early childhood or that psycho-therapeutic techniques that explore the emotional and behavioural patterns established in these early years have any effect whatever in the understanding or treatment of addictive disease . |
| 15 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 16 | He talked on , feeling a great relief , thinking , it 's not surprising Catholics are able to preserve their sanity ; they can unburden themselves in the confessional . |
| 17 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 18 | These constitute a form of indirect discrimination which in the case of turbans was fought successfully by a Sikh family under the terms of the 1976 Race Relations Act ( porn , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |
| 20 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 21 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 22 | Carter had been no mean personal campaigner himself in the past , but by 1980 his situation had changed fundamentally . |
| 23 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 24 | The grant of jurisdiction to a tribunal or other decision-maker must involve a power to come to a decision which in the opinion of a reviewing court may well be wrong . |
| 25 | The experiment has gathered wide support , even from left-wing groups which in the past sought to overthrow the monarchy , but which now express support for constitutional reform . |
| 26 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 27 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 28 | Mr , you and I have debated in the past er in this room er whether or not exceptional circumstances are necessary to define an inset boundary for a village which in the sketch plan of the greenbelt to have been shown as washed over . |
| 29 | Moreover , some of the countries where xenophobia has been politically mobilised very powerfully are , like France , also countries which in the past received , even encouraged , and successfully assimilated mass immigration to an extent almost comparable at times to the US : Italians , Spaniards , Poles , even North Africans . |
| 30 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |