Example sentences of "in [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence .
2 ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age .
3 There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full .
4 The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management .
5 So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts .
6 Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities .
7 Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity .
8 ‘ When putting on shoes they should be checked to make sure no harmful insect has hidden in them during the night . ’
9 Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time .
10 It was natural that the sermons should be indignant , but the ferocious exultation in them at the fate of the conspirators is in striking contrast to his usual gentleness .
11 It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . )
12 We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other .
13 The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance .
14 For centuries they were ‘ consecrated ’ by the first celebration in them of the eucharist : what made them holy was the use made of them .
15 Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions .
16 Well , I 've read them pretty closely and though there 's no date or any positive indication in them of the order in which they were written , there does seem to be a progression of a sort .
17 In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land .
18 The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean .
19 As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett .
20 She is placing her faith in them in the hope that they will restore respect for the monarchy .
21 It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did .
22 Stock holdings of chemicals have not increased significantly over the past 20 years and there are no plans for a major increase in them in the foreseeable future .
23 Well you do need to if you have them in them in the back now .
24 To my mind , any council which actively engenders support for such an organisation is in breach of the trust and duty placed in them by the electorate . ’
25 Purchasers may need to be reminded that a loss of confidence in them by the vendors can be difficult to recover and will adversely affect relationships after completion .
26 I ca n't say I 'm doing a Page-type thing in the studio , but he was someone who was able to make very soulful records , and that was something that generated excitement in me at the time .
27 I shall just have to play on and ride out the recession and I feel I still have three good years left in me at the top .
28 Even at the cost of revealing the whereabouts of the cave to one of the People I must take this specimen there — I must , so great was my urge , thundering in me like the breakers of an ocean .
29 His gaze took in nothing of the scene in the street below ; it spoke only of the generic , accumulated ills of the Noonday of Italy , of violence and crime , poverty , disease , ignorance , and superstition .
30 He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’
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