Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 2 | For a girl who has school trophies for athletics and swimming in the family cabinet , who supports Liverpool and whose favourite player is Steffi Graf , Bradnam is getting an achiever who looks to the best in sport for her inspiration . |
| 3 | Upon tracing the sixth ventricle of the brain , which corresponds to the fourth in the human subject , to its apparent termination , the calamus scriptorius , I perceived the appearance of a canal , continuing by a direct course into the centre of the spinal marrow . |
| 4 | HENRY Wharton happily goes into the unknown in his home town of York tonight . |
| 5 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 6 | However , the inside of the cell differs from the outside in that there is a high internal concentration of potassium and a low concentration of sodium . |
| 7 | It differs from the latter in that the viewpoint is not a single point but an artificial one extending the full length of the section . |
| 8 | This scheme differs from the Protogeometric in a reduction of the black areas and of concentric circles and semicircles , and in a careful selection of the rectilinear motives and the ordering of them to cover the pot with a skin of graded zones which emphasise its shape . |
| 9 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 10 | In many ways Pétain appears as the odd-man-out in the French military hierarchy of the First War . |
| 11 | Rebirthing psychology also verges on the absurd in its extension of the idea that thought is creative . |
| 12 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 13 | A fire described in some press reports as the biggest in Europe 's history was reported to have raged out of control in an area close to the southern city of Katowice during the last ten days of August , following weeks of hot , dry weather . |
| 14 | A fire described in some press reports as the biggest in Europe 's history was reported to have raged out of control in an area close to the southern city of Katowice during the last ten days of August , following weeks of hot , dry weather . |
| 15 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 16 | If the worst comes to the worst in the war , he 'll leave us all in the mess and put a bullet through his head . |
| 17 | If the worst comes to the worst in the war , he 'll leave us all in the mess and put a bullet through his head ! |