Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her later novels Brooke-Rose uses techniques such as these to integrate different discourses , but in The Languages of Love linguistic transgression signals a lack of honesty and integrity . |
| 2 | In ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ she describes her life as a series of ‘ splits ’ , and the allegorical mapping of language to identity hinted at in The Languages of Love is elaborated : |
| 3 | Hussein in The Languages of Love is a Muslim , yet it is he who reveals to Julia the beauty of genuine love expressed in honest language which leads her to convert to Catholicism . |
| 4 | It combines the transgression of narrative convention that begins to be manifest in The Sycamore Tree with a variation on the technique of recontextualization through linguistic slips employed in The Languages of Love . |
| 5 | Like the pun in The Languages of Love and the concept of a variable reality in The Sycamore Tree , a discursive practice that is devalued and stigmatized in this novel is later used as a tool for exploring the practices and attitudes it represents . |
| 6 | The same metaphor is employed in The Languages of Love , but rather than representing tragic alienation as it does there , here it acts as a principle of formal and thematic patterning . |
| 7 | Whereas in The Languages of Love the pun is indicative of the tragic breach between the human and the divine , in Thru it is described as ‘ free , anarchic , a powerful instrument to explode the civilization of the sign and all its stable , reassuring definitions ’ ( 29/607 ) . |
| 8 | Are these categories of thought manifest in the languages of advocacy and judgment within public law ? |
| 9 | She was passionately interested in politics and most of all in the personnel of politics , and she had cultivated a limited group of Labour politicians who , with her , were rightly described as Harold Wilson 's ‘ Kitchen Cabinet ’ . |
| 10 | But it was now clear that depression had a biochemical basis , even if its original causes lay in heredity and in the experiences of life . |
| 11 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 12 | Then there are the negative effects , and it is these which have been stressed in the warnings of computer scientists , university doctors , and in the various confessions of ex-hackers . |
| 13 | That Burhaneddin Herevi may have had , or gained through this event , some official standing , however , is suggested by the reference to him in the biography of Molla Husrev as " multi in the lands of Rum " , a more precise title than is otherwise encountered except in the case of Molla Fenari . |
| 14 | The ‘ vision of things ’ is there in the Ring , in the scenes of conflict and temptation , in the characters ' words and attitudes , in proverbs and in prophecies and in the very narrative mode itself . |
| 15 | In the scenes before battle Hal and Westmoreland address Falstaff in affectionate prose ( IV.ii.49ff. ) , and on the eve of battle Hal still shares that medium with his old crony ( V.i.121ff . ) . |
| 16 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 17 | In a recent case in which the courts were called upon to construe the ambiguous expression ‘ land includes land covered by water ’ in the Rights of Way Act 1932 , the House of Lords , upholding the trial judge and reversing the Court of Appeal , held that the Act did not cover the creation of rights of navigation . |
| 18 | In Matagalpa , the achievements of the prison system were reflected in the very positive attitude of inmates and in the aspirations of prison staff . |
| 19 | Methane , the hydrocarbon commonly known as marsh or swamp gas , is produced by bacteria which live in an oxygen-free environment such as at the bottom of swamps and rice paddies and in the guts of ruminant or cud-chewing animals such as cattle , sheep and camels where the bacteria help to break down food into a digestible form ( enteric fermentation ) . |
| 20 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 21 | In an interview on radio 's The World this Weekend , he said : ‘ I 've got a belief in the merits of consensus for itself . ’ |
| 22 | Remember , before you approach the council , that they may be more than interested in the quantities of water necessary to run your ponds … you may end up with the officials knocking at your door . |
| 23 | Only the Austrians seem able to outdo Germans in the quantities of food one is expected to eat in restaurants . |
| 24 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 25 | But Lacanian psychoanalysis 's lack of impact also results more specifically from its interest in the complexities of language and other signification systems . |
| 26 | Legislation in the jurisdictions under consideration inserts extra tiers into the structure of sexual offences and introduces a more graduated scheme of penalties . |
| 27 | Whilst gradation may have much in principle to commend it , certain criticisms may be voiced at the form which gradation has taken in the jurisdictions under consideration . |
| 28 | In the distances of sleep ? |
| 29 | Berger impersonates her to a fault , both in the superb egotism of female love — ‘ It is painful for us to judge the man we 've taken , for he 's already ours , like a son ’ — and in the certitudes of peasant thinking : ‘ I will tell you which men deserve our respect … |
| 30 | Despite everything , Dinah Asshe was not forgotten : in the intervals of pregnancy she was still offered parts . |