Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Miss Coldharbour stopped in her tracks one step above Julia . |
| 3 | It is rare to find in his writings any acknowledgement of the possibility that Britain 's dominion overseas might have had a less than immaculate conception . |
| 4 | History text-books invariably included in their titles such key-words as ‘ Decline ’ , ‘ Downfall ’ , and ‘ Eclipse ’ . |
| 5 | Oh it would n't have cost nothing , it would cost me something if I got caught in them days bloody ration . |
| 6 | Where an infant actually has in his hands tangible movable property , it would seem that he has a power of disposing of it , of which the limits — if such there are — have not been determined . |
| 7 | I said it 's about time somebody started on these kids I mean the been a television programme this morning about people living in their homes afraid of going out because they 're getting molested and and robbed , and one thing and another ! |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The announcement must specify in what circumstances any irrevocable undertakings will cease to be binding ( eg on receipt of a higher offer ) . |
| 9 | Slim folk us So I 'm not even looking in their shops any more . |
| 10 | On the other hand we also have the ability to remember past events and situations , to visualize these and to create in our imaginations future possibilities . |
| 11 | Most heads saw the quality of education as having risen in their schools due to devolution . |
| 12 | His style of preaching is clearly seen in his books such as A Call to the Unconverted and The Saint 's Everlasting Rest which were prepared from sermonic material . |
| 13 | Other contributors who are working within this tradition ( Brenda Almond , Morwenna Griffiths , Mary Midgley and Anne Seller ) also consider in what ways central philosophical issues might look different from a women 's ( or feminist ) points of view . |
| 14 | Let us first recall the classical continuum definitions of stress and then consider in what ways these need to be modified to have meaning at the molecular level . |
| 15 | and we have had in our ranks civil servants . |
| 16 | Wahler has tried to identify in which families these problems are more likely to occur and has suggested that ‘ insular ’ families are at greater risk for producing non-compliant and aggressive children . |
| 17 | Under the black feathers , the lady smiled at her , sand Sarah could see in her eyes long memories of past happiness , past youth , past love . |
| 18 | They were bound for Darlington and clutched in their hands pre-paid APEX tickets . |
| 19 | The cavernous eyes , guarding in their depths those distant red flames of intelligence and appraisal , looked back at him laughing . |
| 20 | At the same time we should also keep in our prayers all those who died , were injured or bereaved in the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 21 | The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings . |
| 22 | Parties in actions other than the lead actions shall be at liberty to incorporate in their pleadings such part or parts of the pleadings in the lead actions as they may wish to adopt . |
| 23 | Before considering in what circumstances these conditions will be implied , note should be made of section 14(1) which reads : |
| 24 | The effect of the decision was to make clear that the courts , under the new legislation , will decide in what circumstances industrial action is , in their view , ‘ political ’ and when not . |
| 25 | Staff and prisoners at Maidstone were acutely aware that , in a training prison , they were relatively well off compared to the overcrowded local prisons , whose barren regimes often mean prisoners being locked in their cells twenty-three hours each day . |
| 26 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 27 | A preliminary study has compared social work response and service delivery across organizational types , with the objective of seeing in what ways these differed , and whether any differences could plausibly be related to the factors ( for example of knowledge and skill ) said to distinguish in broad terms the organizational types . |
| 28 | ‘ People who would have spat in our faces three years before were now clapping our backs . |
| 29 | Then he glared at Rosie , adding , ‘ But what you are doing in your night-clothes this time of day ? |
| 30 | One of the main goals of governmental authority , which is lexically prior to any other , is to ensure for all persons an equal ability to pursue in their lives and promote in their societies any ideal of the good of their choosing . |