Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 2 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 3 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 4 | Feminists ca n't blame it all on men — since time began , men have delighted in our wobbly bits , thank heaven . |
| 5 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 6 | But while delegation is a prerequisite of corporate efficiency , it also carries with it the risk , common to all agency relationships , that the managers will act in their own interests at the expense of the shareholders , thereby reducing the expected gains , not only for the shareholders , but also for society as a whole . |
| 7 | In speaking for him , they may only act in his best interests . |
| 8 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 9 | The corporation has developed , at its Martlesham research laboratory , communications hardware that it hopes companies will install in their own offices for such conferences . |
| 10 | To-day we can see Pakistani or Bengali women , walking in their traditional clothes , barely able to understand the language of the country in which they are living , acting as the repository for the pain and grief of the whole family . |
| 11 | These two novels suggest in their different ways that the relation between province and metropolis , countryside and city , periphery and centre , ever potent themes in modern Italian writing , is open to reinterpretation and reorganization into new narrative and symbolic combinations . |
| 12 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 13 | Then they wo n't be cross with us for interfering in their primitive rituals . ’ |
| 14 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 15 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 16 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 17 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 18 | Its chief virtue lies in its medicinal qualities which were thought considerable ; even now it has some use in the treatment of ailments . |
| 19 | Our pain lies in our bodily selves , Larry , not in our souls . |
| 20 | The answer lies in our own hands . |
| 21 | Green consumers have strength and it lies in our growing numbers and our deep personal conviction that we want a planet fit for our children . |
| 22 | If you do n't want yourself , or anyone else in the family , to be one of those statistics in the next three minutes , then the answer lies in your own hands . |
| 23 | Oh , Leo ! ’ she exclaimed helplessly as she looked at him , a plea for understanding in her lovely eyes . |
| 24 | Amusement lurking in her dark eyes , because that 's what people always said , Ellie signed the bill , thanked the waitress , gave her a warm smile , added a little tip , and went out to wait for Donal . |
| 25 | Therefore , many of us — but especially men — have fears , lurking in our subconscious minds , of being dominated again by a woman . |
| 26 | It provides students with the language and communicative skills they will need in their professional lives . |
| 27 | Ministers were to work out what the plan would need in their respective areas of responsibility and the Ministry of Industry would subsequently devise the necessary " practical solutions " . |
| 28 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 29 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 30 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |