Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 2 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 3 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 4 | A surge of adrenaline which in the primeval swamp prepared the body to fight or flee . |
| 5 | There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth . |
| 6 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 7 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 8 | The fundamental issue in this appeal is whether the court in the exercise of its inherent power to protect the interests of minors should ever require a medical practitioner or health authority acting by a medical practitioner to adopt a course of treatment which in the bona fide clinical judgment of the practitioner concerned is contra-indicated as not being in the best interests of the patient . |
| 9 | Probably the best known Vulcanian deposit is one produced by an eruption of Vulcano itself in the 1880s . |
| 10 | The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied . |
| 11 | By eliminating the formal codes of obedience which in the conventual life she would have owed to her mother superior and to the canons of her order and to episcopal authority , she was able to claim a more radical obedience , an obedience to God alone . |
| 12 | Broletto is the ‘ little ’ version of brolo which in the Middle Ages was a tree-lined meadow , a place where , traditionally , the Archbishop dispensed justice . |