Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] he [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 | 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 . ) . |
| 4 | In that sense he belongs to the past . |
| 5 | In that sense he has something in common with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | In that way he achieves the highest degree of attention to detail . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In that way he ensures a total identity with profit . |
| 9 | She 's staying in that caravan he 's got in field there . |
| 10 | In that moment he changes careers — changes lives . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 13 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 14 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 15 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 16 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 17 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 18 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 19 | In due course he calls witnesses — eye witnesses , police , inspectors from the AIB and others — to substantiate his account . |
| 20 | In another letter he describes how he impishly tried to put Schikaneder 's nose out of joint by playing the glockenspiel out of time from the wings . |
| 21 | In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin out of some Valinorean ‘ foresight ’ ; or because he knew hobbits were stealthy ; or because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘ mix ’ of Took and Baggins ; while as for the word ‘ burglar ’ , it was all a dwarvish misunderstanding . |
| 22 | In this case he has and they 've an and conveniently of course for this example it 's all been put into , into a statement . |
| 23 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 24 | In this poem he thanks his benefactor for obtaining his release after ‘ Well nigh sev'n years ’ of captivity : |
| 25 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 26 | In this issue he interviews Dudley Moore at his restaurant in LA ( page 86 ) and also writes about the birth of his daughter Madeleine ( page 31 ) . |
| 27 | Later in this interlude he meets Saul , who tells him it 's irrelevant whether he lived or died : the point is that the myth continues . |
| 28 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 29 | In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices . |
| 30 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |