Example sentences of "in [det] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in a world characterised by producers battling for market share , a relative improvement in one country 's export performance ( as measured by growth in its world market share ) must be reflected in another 's deterioration . |
| 2 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 3 | As I was not pleased with this , and indeed a little sorrowful that my brother should take pleasure in another 's company , I went to bed early and lay listening to the West Wind howling round the turrets and after a while fell into an uneasy slumber . |
| 4 | Sophisticated in another 's life , she can review |
| 5 | She places her trust in another 's voice : |
| 6 | The speaker sees the world from his own perspective , praises his man friend and does his best to damn the woman : The emotional tone increases , from this relatively cool opening ( although ‘ suggest ’ has the sinister connotation of diabolic temptation ) as the poet 's indignation at the woman grows ( ‘ my female evil/Tempteth … would corrupt … with her foul pride ’ ) until he reveals the sexual suspicion which motivates his anger : ‘ I guess one angel in another 's hell ’ . |
| 7 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 8 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 9 | But at least in the midst of my misery I can own what I have instead of feeling I am a pawn in another 's game with rules that I can not stick to or change . |
| 10 | If he points to the empty box then it is probably fair to regard this as deliberate misinforming , as the ‘ implanting ’ of a false belief in another 's mind . |
| 11 | Whichever definition is used , the gist of the offence is the creation of fear in another 's mind . |
| 12 | He embodied the message in those well-known lines : Kindness in another 's trouble , courage in one 's own' . |
| 13 | ‘ Can it really be as you say , that fame — that vicarious life in another 's breath — will be mine in the years to come ? |