Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 2 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 3 | Thus if a policeman gives directions to a traveller , a doctor tells a nurse how to administer medicine to a patient , a householder puts in an insurance claim , a shop assistant explains the relative merits of two types of knitting wool , or a scientist describes an experiment , in each case it matters that the speaker should make what he says ( or writes ) clear . |
| 4 | In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child . |
| 5 | In each case it attempts to explain what decisions are made , by whom , and how ; why the system operates in the way it does ; the problems that arise and the pressures for change ; the obstacles which inhibit change ; the effectiveness of different forms of accountability and the viability of alternatives to existing practices . |
| 6 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 7 | In each proposition it advances , relationism is thus obliged to contradict its own thesis . |
| 8 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 9 | Since there is an intelligent system at work in each person it follows that if discomfort or dysfunction is necessary in order to maintain harmony within the system as a whole then the disease will manifest in the least important parts possible thus preserving the higher functions of the person for as long as possible . |
| 10 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 11 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 12 | So the report before you is the first real annual report on Equal Opportunities Inter County Council , so you 've got all the relevant statistics and in that sense it compliments the previous report that you 've just examined . |
| 13 | In that sense he belongs to the past . |
| 14 | In that sense he has something in common with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | In that way he achieves the highest degree of attention to detail . |
| 16 | Norman was called upon , he was standing on the rock just behind Issaacs , swaying on his hips in that way he has , with his face turned up to the night . |
| 17 | In that way he ensures a total identity with profit . |
| 18 | In that way it works out much better . |
| 19 | In that way it has used economic means to promote the central political objective of ’ ever closer union among the people of Europe ’ . |
| 20 | Erm unle unless we 're actually making that change as such , then the only way forward it seems to me i i is on the lines of which of which Mr has indicated which is that erm essentially the needs of Greater York are calculated on the current Greater York study area and the requirements are made on that basis and the supply is within that area , unless it ca n't be made in that area in that case it goes without that area , and therefore it it it 's part of the justification for the new settlement . |
| 21 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 22 | and , and in that case it does have an independent effect , it 's an incremental effect upon the restrictiveness and that makes it bad in itself |
| 23 | Interestingly , the word ‘ Riserva ’ ( spelt thus ) is also applied to Italian Chianti — but in that case it means the wines are three years old before being bottled . |
| 24 | She 's staying in that caravan he 's got in field there . |
| 25 | In that moment he changes careers — changes lives . |
| 26 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 27 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 28 | I draw the attention of the House and of Ministers to the fact that in that context it seems to make no sense whatsoever that one regulatory authority responsible for safety — the maritime inspectorate — should still remain within the Department of Transport . |
| 29 | ‘ In that context it has — like all good marketing-oriented companies — anticipated needs in world markets , and devised services to meet them . |
| 30 | In that regard it appears that membership of an association creates between the members close links of the same kind as those which are created between the parties to a contract and that consequently the obligations to which the national court refers may be regarded as contractual for the purpose of the application of article 5(1) of the Convention . |