Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] in [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 2 | Ata'i , in his biography of Molla Shams al-Din ( d. 982/1575 ) , writes that " he traversed a few ranks in medreses ' before turning to medicine ; in this case it is clear that these medreses are well below the level . |
| 3 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 4 | of it er but I 'd rather be viewed on my own merits on my own worth er be willing to take a few risks in life erm and know that I 've got the rewards at the end of it for making a success . |
| 5 | There are still a few speeches in Greenaway 's house-style of inert paradox and cod worldliness — notably a digression by the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) about black food and the price structure of restaurant meals — but the story , for better or worse , stands relatively clear of verbiage . |
| 6 | Some elements in Bonhoeffer 's criticism were met very adequately by the later development of Barth 's thought as the stress on revelation was counterbalanced by others , and the humanity rather than the otherness of God came to the fore . |
| 7 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 8 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 9 | Dad also told Ted that meaning could take years to emerge , but in the meantime he should live in the present , enjoy the sky , trees , flowers and the taste of good food , and perhaps fix a few things in Eva 's house — maybe Dad 's bedside light and tape-recorder — if he needed any practical therapy . |
| 10 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 11 | Some passages in Moscovici 's writings suggest that , although present popular consciousness may not be composed entirely of social representations , it is moving towards an objectified character . |
| 12 | Some passages in Saturday 's Son verge on the gross , as when he speaks of his own denunciation of Soviet Communism : ‘ Mother-fornicating Russians . |
| 13 | For example , some respondents in Phoenix 's ( 1991 ) study of white and Afro-Caribbean mothers aged under 20 pointed to their increased control of household resources as one reason why they felt they fared better economically by staying single . |
| 14 | Fitness experts claim some exercises in Cindy 's Shape Your Body Workout — launched by the star in Britain yesterday — are potentially dangerous . |
| 15 | There were some letters in Daddy 's desk at his office . |
| 16 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 17 | ( There are some moments in Dustin 's films that could be called Keatonesque — the blankness of his face at the beginning of The Graduate , some of the comedy in Little Big Man , and the office party scene in Kramer vs Kramer — without his face ever resembling Keaton 's handsome ‘ stone-face ’ features . ) |
| 18 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 19 | In order that the hypothetical choice of loans offered to them would have at least some roots in people 's own experience , the size of the loan was in each case matched to the size of loan which people said they would consider taking out in practice . |
| 20 | The sudden death of Philip in the novel is one of the few references in Thomas 's work traceable to the impact of the elder critic 's death upon him and the Part it played in hardening his determination to become a writer . |
| 21 | This is also in line with Eliot 's own criticism of the lack of such relationships in Wundt 's work . |
| 22 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 23 | But the book is written in the faith that such errors in readers ' responses can be corrected , and that when this is done their way will be open to the poet 's mental condition , and therefore to the correct experience of the poem . |
| 24 | The presence of such individuals in Caedwalla 's entourage confirms the Gewissian prince as a significant political figure . |
| 25 | Winston Smith seeks such things in Orwell 's last book when he enters the slums of London to find someone old enough to remember an England he himself had never known . |
| 26 | So if group captain White has already given you an example of the reduction we 've made in in some of our er scalings of those equipment , er it was also suggested by the contractors that economies could be achieved by reducing the number of bases , the extent to which all squadrons should be fully multi role equipped and by contractualising more of the second and third line support , erm , we and the other partners are still considering these proposals in detail er and have n't actually taken decisions yet but there are certainly some possibilities in that area for er economies against the original cost estimate . |
| 27 | Yet despite these misgivings in teachers ' minds , the unions offer ( witness the strength of feeling in the ‘ action ’ of 1986–7 ) a channel of expression for the frustration and confusion that they feel . |
| 28 | It is important to consider these ambiguities in Oakeshott 's theory and the criticisms that are made of his theory . |
| 29 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 30 | The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection . |