Example sentences of "[vb -s] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His importance lies in his combined role as army agent , official correspondent , and parliamentary licenser of newsbooks and pamphlets . |
| 2 | The simplest explanation lies in his greater ability , his superiority over his contemporaries , and his wider interests . |
| 3 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 4 | A partial explanation for this state of affairs lies in his infrequent appearance in the salerooms , for Beuys was not a producer of easily collectible objects . |
| 5 | The flaw lies in his initial premise that if the use of a weapon is illegal , then ‘ any threat of such use — including not only an ostentatious brandishing of arms ( such as a menacing ‘ demonstration burst ’ ) , but also their research and development , manufacture , stockpiling and deployment ’ must be illegal . |
| 6 | As Professor Desmond Pacey emphasises in his brilliant survey , Creative Writing In Canada , in the words of Duncan Campbell Scott : |
| 7 | The man wrote to the young man 's parents that their son ‘ strikes me as someone who stands in his own light ’ . |
| 8 | The Talmud says , ‘ Happy is he who knows his place and stands in his own place , ’ and Leonard Cohen is such a man today . |
| 9 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |
| 10 | ‘ . Derrida says that these two interpretations are absolutely irreconcilable , even though , he adds in his gnomic fashion , ‘ we reconcile them in an obscure economy ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 12 | Gustave writes in his Intimate Notebook . |
| 13 | As Jeremy Seabrook so vividly illustrates in his many books , working-class areas have instead become the victims of a process of mindless violence , the community turning in on itself in the search for thrills , kicks , money . |
| 14 | Frank , who virtually lives in his brown jacket , blends in with his dusty study , and has a Shakespearean flourish . |
| 15 | The former cocaine user , who slumped from fourth to 59th in the world , now lives in his native Canada . |
| 16 | Vic glances in his rear-view mirror and smiles thinly . |
| 17 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , that a person has in his front window , a large and objectionable racist poster , clearly visible from the street . |
| 19 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 20 | From this the client gains assistance which he needs in his weak position . |
| 21 | Yet the whole image of Xanadu is the poet 's personal creation , as he connects the practical knowledge of nature that he holds in his conscious mind , with his less readily available powers of creativity which he stores in his subconscious mind . |
| 22 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 23 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 24 | Our Greek captain puts in a courtesy visit during dinner and apologizes in his ridiculous English . |
| 25 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 26 | Anderson is not consistently loquacious , but he does produce occasionally lengthy utterances , which themselves suggest the vagueness Stoppard describes in his initial stage direction . |
| 27 | In any case the San Diego Chamber gives a winning account , full of high spirits , of what Hugo Cole rightly describes in his excellent study of Arnold 's music ( Faber : 1989 ) as ‘ one of the most delightful of Arnold 's lighter works ’ . |
| 28 | He 's the smiling innocent who so trusts the sharks he meets in his various roles — newspaper reporter , army recruit , spy , racing bike rider or whatever — that he continually lands himself in trouble , forcing him back on reserves of charm , and his skill with a ukulele , to secure his escape . |
| 29 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 30 | It is not surprising that the work is therefore based on a critique of idealism and that the concepts used are rather more ‘ idealist ’ than those Marx uses in his later work . |