Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of note issue , for instance , its volume was more than equalled by that from country banks , although this in part reflected its own increasing specialisation in discounting . |
| 2 | The United Kingdom contributes nine rural monitoring sites to this programme , and in addition has its own Secondary National Acid Deposition Monitoring Network of 50–70 rural sites which can identify regional patterns in precipitation acidity ( figure 4.7 ) . |
| 3 | If he went against this young man sitting opposite him , he would in effect dig his own grave . |
| 4 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 5 | All staff who have a telephone extension will in effect have their own direct telephone line . |
| 6 | We now just wish to be left in peace to live our own lives and be afforded the same respect as any other family in Passfield . |
| 7 | It may be that it may help those in business understand their own , or their trading partners ' standard terms ; however , it is not intended that it should be used by persons without legal knowledge to draft standard terms without legal advice . |
| 8 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 9 | Tumours er greater than two millimetres in size require their own blood supply . |
| 10 | A complete semantic theory , whether human or computationally oriented , must specify for each expression what semantic information that expression conveys , which in turn determines what that expression can refer to . |
| 11 | Work began at dawn , taking advantage of the hours before the sun grilled the earth and the earth in turn reflected its own massive heat . |
| 12 | Each in turn speaks their own language of jargonistic expertise and coded euphemism . |
| 13 | This in turn creates its own difficulties . |
| 14 | It is surely a simplification to see the latter simply as ‘ applied ’ sciences ; they embody a different stance and intention , which may in turn generate its own ‘ theories of action ’ , which will be explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 15 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 16 | The standard approach was to seek the friendship of the major landowners in the county , particularly the leaders of the dominant political interest , and they in turn approached their own friends . |
| 17 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 18 | Theories of maternal instinct and mother-child bonding are emotionally loaded , and constantly being reappraised ; although lack of consistency in approach brings its own problems , at least this shows how vital the issue is . |
| 19 | Thus , by a seeming concession to native sentiment , the Russians are in reality playing their own game . |
| 20 | It was the availability of local steel and the advent of steam power that gave Glasgow the incentive to dredge and widen the river in order to transform its few old boatyards into one of the world 's great shipbuilding centres . |
| 21 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 22 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 23 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 24 | Looking young is important to many women today in order to hold their own with confidence in the world outside the home , whether they are married or single . |
| 25 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 26 | The plot ( to an excellent book by one of Handel 's favourite librettists , Nicola Haym ) has two clearly delineated strands — Cleopatra 's seduction of Caesar , initially in order to further her own political ends against her treacherous brother and coruler of Egypt , Ptolemy , and the pursuit of revenge by the widow and son of Pompey , brutally murdered by Ptolemy before the curtain rises . |
| 27 | ‘ You wanted to kill poor Thomas in order to further your own beastly ends . |
| 28 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 29 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |
| 30 | Will the Prime Minister face the only alternative left and accept open devaluation , disposing of his Chancellor in order to save his own skin ? |