Example sentences of "[verb] in what [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 2 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 3 | Wordsworth 's power as a poet is seen in what he can do with such material , so that after reading Stepping Westward these commonplaces , while retaining universality , are made new for us . |
| 4 | Er because I do n't believe this company er could be matched in what it can give er to the individual . |
| 5 | Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ? |
| 6 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 7 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 8 | My money is invested in what you can do now . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 10 | We are a relatively small group and therefore are limited in what we can do . |
| 11 | Also useful in the studio should be the onboard sampler , but with only 1.30 seconds of sampling time available it 's obviously limited in what it can do . |
| 12 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 13 | Many people today only believe in what they can see and touch and so they do n't believe in spirits , demons , angels or even God ! |
| 14 | ‘ I believe in what I can see , ’ he replied . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe in what I can hear . |
| 16 | Once such a crude proto-lens is there , there is a continuously graded series of improvements , thickening it and making it more transparent and less distorting , the trend culminating in what we would all recognize as a true lens . |
| 17 | But he had chosen to dress in what he may have conceived to be a British manner . |
| 18 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 19 | They 'd just be in their underwear and er it 's er there 's certain evidence that they engaged in what we would call heavy petting nowadays . |
| 20 | For several sleepless nights , Charity had been engaged in what she would call tiny wrestling with herself . |