Example sentences of "and in this [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The members of the various denominations fought hard against the evils and wickedness of drink and immorality , and in this they were aided by the Constabulary .
2 Although neither was an art movement in any conventional sense , they were both launched as aesthetic revolutions which were scheduled as critiques of everyday life ; and in this they were both surprisingly successful .
3 Gagnon and Simon ( and Plummer ) seem to accept the existence of bodily potentialities on which ‘ sexuality ’ draws , and in this they do not seem far removed from Foucault 's version that what ‘ sexuality ’ plays upon are ‘ bodies , organs , somatic localisations , functions , anatamo-physiological systems , sensations , and pleasures ’ , which have no intrinsic unity or ‘ laws ’ of their own . ’
4 Then , again , and in this they point ahead to the invention of collage , the letters and numerals stress the material existence of the painting in another way : by applying to a canvas or sheet of paper letters , other pieces of paper or fragments of glass and tin — elements generally considered to be foreign to the technique of painting or drawing — the artist makes the spectator conscious of the canvas , panel or paper as a material object capable of receiving and supporting other objects .
5 A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs .
6 So you 're going to fold this around the elbow to give support to the arm and in this one you 're gon na fold first of all forward and then back , can you see that little neat envelope ?
7 She is the person who runs the home , and in this her position is the same as that of the peasants and craftsmen of former times — for her , too , work and life merge into one another .
8 Her happy hunting-ground for the grotesque was among the ‘ non-U ’ , and in this I think her researches anticipated those of Nancy Mitford and Professor Ross .
9 Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck .
10 This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms .
11 A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine .
12 Bede 's main object in life was to transmit his knowledge in intelligible form to his contemporaries and successors , and in this he was eminently successful .
13 He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability .
14 Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments .
15 He was used to handling a great variety of young men , and his piercing stare , as he considered the request , made Hank quail ; he had a suspicion that Peter Dawson could make his wife quail at times , and in this he was right .
16 I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded .
17 Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) .
18 McIntyre says that ‘ the books ’ one and only aim is to help people make up their own minds about war and society based on a neglected primary source ’ , and in this he succeeds brilliantly .
19 Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French .
20 He was always ready to help anybody and in this he was greatly assisted by Rosemary .
21 He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings .
22 All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy .
23 Eliot was worried that I should have money troubles with Lewis , and in this he was right .
24 Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC .
25 One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas :
26 She does want to be ‘ one of the gang ’ and to be admitted to the fortress den and in this she is successful .
27 I no longer believe — nor do I desire — that Semiology should be a simple science , a positive science , and this for a primordial reason : it is the responsibility of semiology … to question its own discourse … finally , science knows no site of security , and in this it must acknowledge itself as writing .
28 Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best .
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