Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 2 | In their discussions the fundamental differences between the two sides slowly emerged : the legal position of the king-duke and the lands held by him ; and , secondly , the problem of which lands the French were to control . |
| 3 | 24–9– " The Session desires to record in their minutes the following resolution annent the Church question , viz. that they resolve unanimously to adhere to the union of 1900 . |
| 4 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 5 | Pray that many would hear in their hearts the Good News of life through faith in Christ . |
| 6 | Consequently , pupils should keep in their files the necessary range and variety of types of writing , including where appropriate any rough notes , plans or early drafts . |
| 7 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 8 | Their udders dropped and their teats became larger and more pendulous so that when they lay down in their stalls the vital milk-producing organ was pushed away to one side into the path of the neighbouring animals . |
| 9 | The first heavy drops splashed in coin shapes on the pavement below and in their tubs the pink flowers on the forecourt dipped and swayed . |
| 10 | In a market-orientated society , where every good or service has its price , the low-pay ‘ price tag ’ attached to some workers sums up in their eyes the low value placed on them by society . |
| 11 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 12 | In their eyes the Asiatic was a menace to British livelihoods , for behind him stood the reality of the unscrupulous shipowner , of whom anything , however disreputable , could be believed . |
| 13 | She urged parents to instil in their children the three ‘ Rs ’ — responsibility , respect and right from wrong . |
| 14 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 15 | In its Appendices the Royal Commission Report contains much information about water supplies for canals ( see appendix E ) . |
| 16 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 17 | You have also helped purge the hormonal tensions of older cadets in whose bodies the new glands strive to balance . |
| 18 | They argue that ‘ directors and top executives , in whose hands the major strategic decisions lie , are , in fact , owners of large stockholdings themselves ’ . |
| 19 | In his headlights the endless lane ahead gleamed like glass . |
| 20 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 21 | Despite the ambassador 's protest that he would have to present his credentials in his shirt-sleeves the next morning , our baggage was unloaded . |
| 22 | In his hands the existing contrast between the building 's industrial past and the immutability of the landscape would be sharpened into a creative expression of striking proportions . |
| 23 | In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ . |
| 24 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 25 | We will now see if it is possible to state in what circumstances the different tones are used within the very limited context of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ said in isolation . |
| 26 | The object of the analysis is then to identify and explain in what circumstances the authoritarian direction of resources has advantage over market-type alternatives . |
| 27 | In our experiments the secretory effect of cholera toxin began in the second hour after administration of the toxin . |
| 28 | Page 235 states : ’ In our surveys the British samples reported the greater number of vocational learning experiences . |
| 29 | Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place ! |
| 30 | As Paris et al performed their measurements by instant manometry using the solid or liquid bolus , the difference between their results and ours is entirely attributable to the positive effect of the arrival of the liquid or solid bolus in the segment of colon in their studies , while in our patients the propulsive waves were in response to the contents of the colonic segment at the time . |