Example sentences of "in [pron] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have six tournaments left in which to reach this goal . ’ |
| 2 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 3 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 4 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 5 | There are often substantive reasons for expecting proportions to respond to an explanatory variable in something resembling this flat S shape . |
| 6 | Although in her writing this objection is expressed in literary , not architectural , terms , it chimes exactly with Sir John Soane 's criticism of NeoGothic : ‘ Irregularity is … too generally admitted . ’ |
| 7 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 8 | Do you have confidence in him to conduct this operation ? |
| 9 | The third was Private Eye 's Adrian Mole-style Diary of John Major , which it was claimed had made the Prime Minister such a figure of ridicule that it might be a significant factor in his losing this election . |