Example sentences of "of [pron] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 2 | The relatively relaxed stance of most of the leading Bolsheviks , many of whom in any case were themselves not Great Russians , was met at least half-way by the malleable reactions of the Belorussians . |
| 3 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 4 | 1992 marks a major change in which Europe ceases to be a matter for specialists and becomes the concern of everyone in local government . |
| 5 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 6 | Right , well you 're already ahead of me in that case |
| 7 | The press were very critical of me in many ways before that . |
| 8 | I start to run again , back the way I 've just come , the branch held out in front of me in both hands . |
| 9 | My mother had several photographs of me in this attire . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 11 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 12 | UK Technology Minister Edward Leigh awarded telecommunications licences to four more companies , three of them in international satellite communications : one goes to City of London Telecommunications Ltd , planning to build a Metropolitan Area Network in the City , the other three to Satellite Information Services Ltd , E-Sat Telecommunications Ltd and PanAmSat LP , all to operate international satellite services . |
| 13 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 14 | Ashton 's careful build-up to this climax makes Vera 's discovery of them in each other 's arms all the more poignant because she shows a child-like petulance at losing one she so longed to have for her own . |
| 15 | Over two-thirds of people live in homes that they own , 10 million people own shares , 6 million of them in newly-privatised industries . |
| 16 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 17 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 18 | By this time , the Magdalene , the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared , and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts . |
| 19 | The workers in the 34,000 co-operatives , most of them in rural areas , had seen no benefit from the reforms of the late 1980s and were experiencing deteriorating living standards . |
| 20 | In an effort to boost that the company turned its attention to railway and industrial projects , many of them in other countries . |
| 21 | This collection aimed not only at bringing together all earlier decisions and pronouncements of importance by the pope , many of them in early councils , but also at reconciling conflicting judgments . |
| 22 | These were babies ' bodies , over forty of them in various stages of decomposition . |
| 23 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 24 | Using his logical mind , Dustin/Sumner takes them all on , getting rid of them in various ways — with a knife , burning oil , a gun and an animal trap . |
| 25 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 26 | pinched in one of them in that Asda . |
| 27 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 28 | Six of them in that pack what you got from . |
| 29 | Without exception every single one of them in that room , and I invited every single one from the whole of my constituency , said , we want to stay in the National Health Service . |
| 30 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |