Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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1 | He followed the traditional approach of considering separately the imposition of burdens upon a third party from the conferring of benefits , and stressed in his commentary the requirement of good faith prior to becoming a party to a treaty . |
2 | David Edyvean , who has had installed in his shop the Bestseller EPOS system , which has an interface to Buyline and links to TeleOrdering , BookBank and other CD-ROM databases — explained that despite a personal lack of technical expertise , careful investment in new technology had enabled his shop to establish a competitive edge . |
3 | Suffice it to say that Devon Loch gave Dick Francis a dream ride , as the jockey related in his autobiography The Sport of Queens : ‘ I have never ridden another horse like him . |
4 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
5 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
6 | They had twice had in their possession the girl they were sent to recapture and once had the boy . |
7 | Yet for more than three months he has had in his hands the report by the Select Committee on Members ' Interests which recommends changes in the registration of commercial lobbying interests . |
8 | The general implications of this view of life are explained and elaborated in my book The Extended Phenotype , and I sha n't repeat the arguments here . |
9 | For a man so rooted in his domesticity the nomadic life of the Official War Artist was a gamble . |
10 | Although this was initially done as a form of self-healing , the work was later used in my exhibition The Picture of Health ? in 1984 . |
11 | The complainant maintained ( amongst other things ) that the District Alkali Inspector should have offered in his evidence the fact that a similar plant owned by the firm had been mentioned in the Chief Alkali Inspector 's Annual Reports for 1962 to 1965 as a result of a complaint about a ‘ tom cat smell ’ . |
12 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
13 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
14 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
15 | Sitting across from her , he saw the triumph in her cunning little eyes , heard in her voice the note of ghoulish relish . |
16 | Yet they are the only animal known in whose bloodstream the AIDS virus survives for any length of time . |
17 | And you 'd huv thought a choc ice wouldny have melted in her mouth the wey she cam' in clutching her quarter of matinee mixture quite the cats pyjamas her fur collar swagger . |
18 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
19 | Christine Hardaker 's defence of Anthony Storr 's view of homosexuals as portrayed in his book The Integrity of the Personality just will not do ( letters , October 7 ) . |
20 | But I was conscious of the sexual deviancies in the story , and I had fixed in my mind the idea of making the movie asexual . |
21 | This time the iridescence , when it came , was almost bright , and fixed in his head the magic of her crotch , his fingers sliding over and between her labia . |
22 | The protests continued and in early April , in an effort to contain the mounting unrest , King Birendra dismissed the Prime Minister , Marich Man Singh Shrestha , and appointed in his place the moderate Lokendra Bahadur Chand . |
23 | And the former head of the Hitler Youth , Baldur von Schirach , who retained even at Nuremberg a naïve attachment to Hitler , indicated in his memoirs the effect on Hitler himself of the constant toadying and sycophancy which surrounded him , shielding him from rational criticism or genuine debate , and bolstering his increasing detachment from reality . |
24 | Had the interviewers encouraged in our minds the right attitude towards the politicians — total scepticism — we might have been less interested in watching their interminable television programmes . |
25 | Matheson 's advocacy of free trade was embodied in his booklet The Present Position and Prospects of British Trade with China ( 1836 ) . |
26 | The Nuang Ase is the one day in the year when the taboo against women boarding the prahus may be broken , and they brought with them a feast , including the black goat of the earth and the white cock of the sky which had been sacrificed in our hull the night before . |
27 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
28 | The night of the hollands had left in its wake the day of the doldrums at Blue Horizons . |
29 | When the Bohemians realised the mistake they had made in electing Ferdinand , they deposed him and elected in his place the Palatine Elector , Frederick V , a weak if romantic figure . |
30 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |