Example sentences of "in [noun] ['s] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 2 | In Nizan 's imagination it assumed the status of a moral crusade . |
| 3 | The Law Society has issued guidance notes for equal opportunities in solicitors ' firms which reproduce a standard policy for their use which has been drawn up on the basis of recommendations of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if you put that woman in Ma 's place I 'll never forgive you . ’ |
| 5 | There is much in Allan 's discussion which accords with everyday experience . |
| 6 | In Simons 's words it ‘ goes beyond the information given ’ to identify the interests which shape the ‘ facts ’ . |
| 7 | Despite Harry 's obvious attraction for most of the unattached girls in the room , it was in Cora-Beth 's company he was most often to be seen . |
| 8 | Her approach to clothes was matched by a mother in Ritchie 's study who noted that the cost of fuel meant that she did not light the fire during the day when her children were at school but saved the limited fuel supplies to protect their standard of living . |
| 9 | She believes that in Newton 's alchemy we can catch a glimpse of ‘ at least a small part of his attempt to reconcile magic and science ’ . |
| 10 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
| 11 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 12 | While this view could equally have generated stoicism , in Mum 's case it led to self-pity . |
| 13 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 14 | In Rothenbuhler 's experiment there were two genes , with two alleles each , and four ( 2 2 ) categories of bee . |
| 15 | Yet in Morse 's view it was always a good idea to ask a few inconsequential questions . |
| 16 | In Doyle 's experience it rarely helped to develop the human side of the ‘ rehabilitated ’ man . |
| 17 | If it occurs anywhere in Offa 's reign it does so as Of Rx A on a few of Offa 's coins by the London moneyer , Alhmund . |
| 18 | There was a huge , watertight compartment in Toby 's life whose contents she could n't begin to guess at . |
| 19 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 20 | That was in Steven 's house I think that was |
| 21 | But — in Montini 's case there was always a but — he still felt he should try to enable the minority to vote placet on collegiality . |
| 22 | In Dennis 's presence I became an outlaw once again , and Karen my moll . |
| 23 | At the lowest point in David 's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem . |
| 24 | It was no comfort to the church that many of the king 's judges were themselves clerics , for in Edward 's reign they clearly gave their first loyalty to the king who was employing them ; they seem seldom to have challenged his interests . |
| 25 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
| 26 | In Hilbert 's dictionary he found coypu defined as a South American aquatic rodent , myopotamus coypus , somewhat smaller than a beaver . |
| 27 | Precisely in Freud 's sense he is an intellectual , interested not in what soldiers say about fighting , nor in the history , technology or economics of war . |
| 28 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 29 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
| 30 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |