Example sentences of "[prep] [det] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 2 | There were only eight private acts for enclosure in the whole of England before 1714 , eighteen under George I ( 1714–27 ) , and 229 under George II ( 1727–60 ) , most of these in the latter part of his reign . |
| 3 | 44 ) , but the stylisation of these in the former — as in the simple , geometric mosaics with which it is associated — suggests considerable stylistic distance . |
| 4 | Well course , there 's gon na be a certain amount of all in the same day is n't there ? |
| 5 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 6 | The similarity of the central flower in mosaic 7 with that in the same position in mosaic C is more compelling . |
| 7 | Even if you are replacing a basin with another in the same position , it is unlikely that you will be able to use the existing tap connectors . |
| 8 | You should look on your notes as you would on a stamp collection — small , frequent additions on the right pages and plenty of empty space for more in the same category . |
| 9 | Thus liberal arts courses might be expected to have different aims from vocational or professional ones , theoretical courses will differ from applied ones , and undergraduate courses will differ from those in the same subject at A level . |
| 10 | The total number of buyout and buy-in transactions in the first half of 1992 , at 301 completions , was virtually identical to that in the same period in 1991 , although the total value of transactions rose by 40% to £1.65bn . |
| 11 | Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements ’ . |
| 12 | Why is it that one person reacts differently to another in the same circumstances ? |
| 13 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 14 | Fourth , ‘ theories which assert that all inequality is morally wrong ’ : resources are allocated by comparison across individual lives at any given moment ; for example most people would unequivocally give priority for treatment to those in the most pain . |