Example sentences of "in [adj] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from having to go over the unpleasant details of Froggy 's death yet again , I had a nasty feeling that Inspector Drew 's bright and suspicious eyes masked darker ideas about my role in Froggy 's murder . |
| 2 | Alternatively , MAS may undertake a proactive search for a client with target approach being the next logical step in MAS 's acquisition assistance . |
| 3 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sophisticated in another 's life , she can review |
| 8 | She places her trust in another 's voice : |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whichever definition is used , the gist of the offence is the creation of fear in another 's mind . |
| 15 | He embodied the message in those well-known lines : Kindness in another 's trouble , courage in one 's own' . |
| 16 | ‘ Can it really be as you say , that fame — that vicarious life in another 's breath — will be mine in the years to come ? |
| 17 | Hargreaves continued the Sheffield pattern by mounting exhibitions by young artists in Imperial 's Consort Gallery , quality shows that soon attracted a following and that for years formed a regular feature of the London art scene . |
| 18 | Essentially there are two important phases in MDC 's history which , for any meaningful evaluation , require different criteria of analysis . |
| 19 | Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head . |
| 20 | Suppose X is talking to Y , standing on the blue border of the carpet in X 's office , in a given street , in Manchester , in England , in |
| 21 | At each internal node , labelled X say , there is one child for each symbol on the right side of the chosen production for X. These children are ordered in the same way as their labels are ordered in X 's production . |
| 22 | Lyonnais des Eaux already owns the two big statutory water companies in Northumbrian 's region and is bound to have ambitions for the region as a whole . |
| 23 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 24 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 25 | It was that sort of game though … too much referee 's whistle … too many niggling fouls … it worked in United 's favour … when they won another penalty … |
| 26 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 27 | In Manchester , there was open speculation that Bobby Charlton , probably the most famous player in United 's history and also a director , was being lined up to take over the chairmanship after a Midani bid . |
| 28 | Bruce , who has been inspirational in United 's pursuit of their first championship in 25 years , was guilty of a reckless and needless challenge he will regret . |
| 29 | He left Forest three years ago in a £1.5m deal and although he was an immediate success in United 's midfield , the last 12 months have turned sour . |
| 30 | Two other factors may operate in Short 's favour . |