Example sentences of "in [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 2 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 3 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 4 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 5 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 6 | In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land . |
| 7 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | Stock holdings of chemicals have not increased significantly over the past 20 years and there are no plans for a major increase in them in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’ |
| 10 | The fact that Tassi was already married only exacerbated Aratsio 's belief in himself as the aggrieved party . |
| 11 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 12 | As he later recorded in his ‘ Lines on an Autumnal Evening ’ , these were the settings in which for the first time ‘ young Poesy/Stared wildly-eager in her noontide dream ’ . |
| 13 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 14 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 15 | Last night , Amaranth Wilikins had told Grunte that she had yet to make up her mind in which of the many debates she would try to speak . |
| 16 | In which of the five types of landscape is each of these local changes ? |
| 17 | Messages indicate whether the card is correctly placed , or in which of the four principal direction(s) it is out of position . |
| 18 | Access to entry text is controlled by the Entry and/or Lemma tables which enable the required entry and its current version to be identified , and by the Range table , which specifies in which of the 40 Text tables the material is to be found . |
| 19 | No one could but admire the fortitude with which he bore his last painful illness and the way in which at the same time he stuck to his constituency work which he performed with great conscientiousness . |
| 20 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 21 | It was the first of many speeches in which by the measured and skilful deployment of moderate words he visibly affected the opinions of a crucial audience . |
| 22 | And just to remind you the open the open state probability can be defined as the time that the channel spends in its in the open state divided by the total time of the recording . |
| 23 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 24 | In this present study undertaken blind , IS900-PCR detected M paratuberculosis in one third ( six of 18 ) of long term broth cultures of intestinal tissue from Crohn 's disease patients and in a single ( one of six ) non-inflammatory bowel disease control culture but in none of the ulcerative colitis cultures ( nil of seven ) . |
| 25 | But in none of the above cases do the manoeuvres by which the main character resists her passive relation to language engage her in active polemic with other texts . |
| 26 | In none of the primary schools studied by Clarricoates could one say that the gender code was characterized by weak classifications ( i.e. equality between the sexes ) and weak frames ( freedom to negotiate the definitions of gender ) . |
| 27 | Interestingly , in none of the eight occupations in the share of temporary workers is particularly high — it is around or only slightly above the average in each case . |
| 28 | However , in none of the natural sciences did there seem to be serious uncertainty about the general direction in which knowledge was advancing , or the basic conceptual or methodological framework of its advance . |
| 29 | The husband is also , of course , the victim of this ruse , but in none of the Italian versions is he built up in any way to provide a substantial target figure . |
| 30 | In none of the three alternative situations described above does switching off the ventilator have any significance , of itself , from a medical-legal point of view . |