Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No discipline is , or could be , interested in everything about the common-sense world but in those things , those aspects , those properties , those attributes , conceived in terms of its conceptual apparatus and its theories . |
| 2 | What the movies taught Welford Beaton was ‘ we are not interested in average things , whether animate or inanimate — we are interested in anything in the degree that it is above or below the average ’ . |
| 3 | He need not be interested in it at the time when the insurance is effected . |
| 4 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 5 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 6 | … Every time I have been in Annat since , I have remembered this further demonstration of Highland hospitality by people obviously poor in everything except the warmth of their welcome for strangers . |
| 7 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 8 | I I ca n't , I ca n't understand why we 're involved in it in the way we are . |
| 9 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 10 | On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object . |
| 11 | Here 's the shopping street he walked along , and , lingering in it like the smell of coffee , the first impression of the whole city that he based on it . |