Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 2 | The crystallization of enzymes , the invention of the electrical method called electrophoresis which separates molecules according to their size and their electric charge , the development of very high speed centrifuges in which the larger proteins are separated from smaller ones as they spin , and later the application of X-ray crystallography to large molecules have all contributed to progress . |
| 3 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 4 | Until the lonely hour arrives in which the philosophical proof of the truth of history is produced , then history will inevitably continue as a representation and interpretation of the past — rather than Marxist truth and the false or limited interpretation of all other historians . |
| 5 | Then came the disgraceful ‘ leaked minutes ’ of a BBC review board meeting in which the good name of the breathtakingly beautiful Selina Scott was traduced by a cad called Peter Estall . |
| 6 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 7 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 8 | I appeared on the Front Bench in the Committee Sitting in which the hon. Gentleman referred and received an assurance from the Minister that getting a dispensation would not be a problem . |
| 9 | A seven-hour battle ensued in which the guerrilla , Issam Barahma , and an Israeli soldier died ; three other Israeli soldiers were injured . |
| 10 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 11 | The Bible encourages in us the desire for God as the source of human happiness . |
| 12 | A proportion was allotted to the Crown ‘ in severalty ’ , varying according to the area of the forest wastes in which the property in the soil belonged to the Crown . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 14 | I had no intention of giving trouble or offence to anyone , not me , but the case-officer discerned in me the potential for terrible trouble . |
| 15 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 16 | That means both that there is a dialectical meaning of the practical ensemble … and that each singular event totalizes in itself the practical ensemble in the infinite richness of its singularity ’ ( II , 26 ) . |
| 17 | Usually , there is no communication between the two until the last minute , and then a long-winded procedure begins in which the empty listed building must be offered to every other part of the organization ( most of which self-evidently will not want it ) ; and while the papers sit in in-trays the repair bill escalates into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 18 | Hardly a week passes in which the Defence Campaign does not monitor incidents of harassment or malpractice by officers from Tottenham . |
| 19 | Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect . |
| 20 | These are : ( 1 ) variable sets in which the lexical items are very numerous and are distributed throughout all or most of the range of a phonemic class ( we can call these ‘ large-set variables ’ ) , and ( 2 ) variables that are restricted to a small class of lexical items ( small-set variables ) . |
| 21 | So if an incident occurs in which the boss is perceived by an individual as evil and uncaring , then whether that is true or not is irrelevant . |
| 22 | A quarrel ensues in which the television characters argue that they are more deserving of prayer than novelistic characters because the latter have a far longer life ; the characters from novels insist that only they need their existences reinforced because only they are in danger of losing their audience . |
| 23 | When you are interrupted in contemplative devotion , says Hilton , do n't be angry and depressed but This is the mode by which man following a mixed life realises in himself the creative love of God — the fire of love that Rolle talked of as consuming all that is dark . |
| 24 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 25 | The second use of the z value is in depth cueing in which the intensity of the line is chosen to dim gradually as it recedes from the observer . |
| 26 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 27 | She saw the bar , with its gleaming mahogany counter and polished brass fittings ; the enamel levers of the soda pumps , the array of ratafias and rosolio liqueurs behind the bar , and the new wooden chest , like a coffer with brass hasps in which the aluminium pails of pastel ices were kept in ice brought by dripping cart from the icehouse in the harbour at Dolmetta , where the fish were packed and then chipped off the block . |
| 28 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 29 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 30 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |