Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bird must also know in which direction the echo-producing obstacle lies . |
| 4 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 5 | To enable teachers to perform this function with regard to language , they will need in their training the research tools that will enable them to do this . |
| 6 | He followed the traditional approach of considering separately the imposition of burdens upon a third party from the conferring of benefits , and stressed in his commentary the requirement of good faith prior to becoming a party to a treaty . |
| 7 | Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them . |
| 8 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 9 | David Edyvean , who has had installed in his shop the Bestseller EPOS system , which has an interface to Buyline and links to TeleOrdering , BookBank and other CD-ROM databases — explained that despite a personal lack of technical expertise , careful investment in new technology had enabled his shop to establish a competitive edge . |
| 10 | And it will even map-read for you ; if you tap in your destination the computer will work out the best route for you , giving you a read-out on the screen . ’ |
| 11 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
| 12 | Nutty , picturing in her mind the agility required of the cross-country performer , ground her teeth with frustration . |
| 13 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 14 | He has in his grasp the ability to reduce anyone to tears , through a snappy headline or lurid story . |
| 15 | Whitely has in his book The Theology of the New Testament a powerful image of an officer in the war who had to lead his troops across a dangerous minefield . |
| 16 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 17 | It can not therefore be stated , as an abstract proposition , that he suffers any detriment from the discharge of that duty ; and the declaration does not show in what way the defendant could have derived any advantage from the plaintiff paying his own debts . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that Devon Loch gave Dick Francis a dream ride , as the jockey related in his autobiography The Sport of Queens : ‘ I have never ridden another horse like him . |
| 19 | Marje says in her biography The Guilt And The Gingerbread , by Angela Patmore , that Levy lived a bachelor existence in a London hotel before retiring to Brighton in 1970 . |
| 20 | Rare species do not form part of the definition of a community , although it may be useful to state in which community the rarity occurs in order to fix its ecological preference . |
| 21 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 22 | Detaching himself from this passionate domesticity , he composed in his mind the kind of picture Rembrandt would have made of it . |
| 23 | As John Fairchild noted in his book The Fashionable Savages in 1965 : ‘ She looks best wearing what no one else would ever wear , something so simple another lady would n't dare … |
| 24 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 25 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 26 | I picture in my mind the womb , small and malleable as the heart muscle , expanding and contracting at ludicrous speed . |
| 27 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 28 | They had twice had in their possession the girl they were sent to recapture and once had the boy . |
| 29 | He was elected leader of the party at the Carlton Club on 21 March 1921 , proposed by Captain Pretyman who coined in his speech the idea that Conservative leaders " emerged " rather than being elected . |
| 30 | The general implications of this view of life are explained and elaborated in my book The Extended Phenotype , and I sha n't repeat the arguments here . |