Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 2 | And he gave me a little master glass in cinema acting which I 've never forgotten |
| 3 | The top columnists in football bring you their views with Andy King , Denis Law and John Aldridge . |
| 4 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 5 | So our final document when , and this is , this is issued in June nineteen fifty , we are in power , we are a communist government and our land reform is one which enshrines inequalities , it protects middle peasants it in effect minimizes what it can give to the poor . |
| 6 | His achievements in sport made him something of a celebrity at school and his status was in no small way boosted by the teachers ' approval . |
| 7 | I just want to stay in work enjoying what I do . |
| 8 | If you are lacking in confidence ask yourself what most frightens you . |
| 9 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 10 | There seems no likelihood of a settlement without the full apology Branson has always demanded and on January 11 he will be in court to savour what he expects to be the greatest victory against his rival . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone in television told me he lived in an ordinary flat by the Park , with nothing but a secret service man lurking in the lobby . ’ |
| 12 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |
| 13 | Twenty leading British scientists have called for a change in Government to reverse what they call a dramatic decline in the standard of British scientific research . |
| 14 | And she in turn supervised her her own women staff you see . |
| 15 | ‘ Before I answer that question , ’ be said , ‘ let me in turn ask you one . |
| 16 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 17 | ‘ And you want to be first in line to give it them . ’ |
| 18 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 19 | I do n't want to be morbid , my lovely , or for you to think that I 'm just seducing you with promises in order to take what I want . |
| 20 | I think in order to support our our response to the Royal Commission , which is imminent , the County Council and the District Council must now have had firm ideas on what they intend to do with parishes . |
| 21 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 22 | In order to answer them they need marketing research . |
| 23 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 24 | ‘ Then I drove almost two hundred miles down from Lisboa in order to visit whoever it was who owned this house . ’ |
| 25 | So that there , there may be a , an important personnel problem th th that you realize that well okay the option of going for land reform is , is there but you 're saying er it 's likely trouble my experience of the past is that , that radical land reform is , is disruptive it could affect production , it could get out of hand , it could alienate people in order to control them we need a lot cadres on the ground and we have n't got them . |
| 26 | In order to test it he or she would presumably have to examine a number of literate and non-literate societies from the point of view of their degree of ‘ scepticism ’ . |
| 27 | However , there is authority from cases decided before the 1977 Act that the approach to such clauses is first to construe the contract to define the parties ' obligations without reference to the disputed clause , and then take account of the clause in order to decide what its effect is on those obligations ( see Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) . |
| 28 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 29 | In fact this is more interesting than you may think because female hyenas have a pseudo-penis , they have , they have a pseudo-scrotum and a pseudo-penis , reasons which are n't fully understood and in order to mate , the male has to insert his real penis into the female pseudo-penis in order to reach her her genital and it 's a bit complicated . |
| 30 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |