Example sentences of "[verb] in the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unhappily there is a new breed of librarian who takes a different view , epitomised in the motto I have quoted ‘ If in Doubt , Chuck it Out ’ . |
| 2 | This was one of 5 VCs won in the raid which produced a record 80 decorations . |
| 3 | Just walking in the garden I was |
| 4 | A sudden storm or hiccup in the generator which supplied electricity could plunge the whole compound into darkness . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Hugh , ‘ as I think he told you , that he did not know in the darkness who the dead man might be . |
| 6 | ‘ We will know in the end who betrayed Zbigniew Nowak . ’ |
| 7 | If they fly in the area they will be well aware we are likely to attack . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as the delicate lining has been interfered with , the ovum finds it difficult to make its way to the uterus and may either arrive too late for successful implantation or , which is worse , may implant in the tube itself , giving rise to an ectopic pregnancy ( tubal pregnancy ) . |
| 9 | The originality of so much of Ashton 's and MacMillan 's choreography fur classical ballets lies in the way they follow the basic principles and rules in order to create an infinite variety of enchaînements from the traditional vocabulary of steps , and yet discard the conventions . |
| 10 | The strength of the F-Plan lies in the way it affects the calories you consume . |
| 11 | Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion . |
| 12 | In either case the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it narrows down , or constrains , the interpretation of the original . |
| 13 | Rather its relevance lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of [ 14a ] so that hearers can see it as an interpretation of the speaker 's thoughts about the state of the pound . |
| 14 | That is , the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of the first segment so that it matches Carver 's own initial impressions . |
| 15 | It is clearly an undergraduate text ; its use lies in the way it introduces discourse stylistics to a primarily conventional undergraduate group . |
| 16 | It merely wants the PLO to learn , as the members of the popular movement themselves have learnt , that the strength of the national movement lies in the philosophy which has taken root so strongly in the territories over the 1977–87 decade . |
| 17 | If its greatest danger lies in the Israeli threat to push yet more Palestinians across the river Jordan and in a consequent revolution , Jordan 's greatest asset lies in the support it receives from the West , anxious to bolster Jordan as a ‘ moderate ’ in the Arab world so long as the Middle East conflict persists . |
| 18 | Part of the difficulty lies in the developments which have taken place in the ordinary common law of judicial review . |
| 19 | The difference between American and British approaches to obscenity law lies in the harms they seek to curtail and in their comprehension of the processes by which those harms are inflicted . |
| 20 | ( The secret of a good presentation still lies in the message you are getting across rather than the props that you use to help you . ) |
| 21 | The interest in these past events at the time of writing ( 1985 ) lies in the problems we addressed that are still unresolved . |
| 22 | For the genealogist , however , the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors . |
| 23 | A second clue to the date of a book lies in the events it records . |
| 24 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
| 25 | He believes a key to the projects ' success lies in the continuity it brings to children 's lives . |
| 26 | The key to future economic growth in Africa lies in the markets which are being created as towns and cities expand . |
| 27 | I suspect that part at least of the explanation lies in the pressures which structures of racism exert on the forms of resistance to it . |
| 28 | Now , some men think right , I 'll walk across the road others will think well I 'll stay behind because it might be safer cos there might be somebody lurking in the corners none of us know quite how to react to that . |
| 29 | ( v ) There is no agreement on the set of descriptive categories required for an adequate account of a language such as English ; consequently different investigators are likely to differ in the way they identify linguistic features in a text . |
| 30 | The only bifurcations occurring in the equations which are accessible to simple classical analysis have already been mentioned . |