Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is true that , with some 70% of outstanding shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the vaults of friendly business partners , Japanese firms are under little pressure to increase dividends and their managements have few fears of being replaced in a sudden stockmarket coup . |
| 2 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 3 | Files concerning his case and the unwillingness of the neutral Irish government to make representations are buried in the vaults of the Irish Foreign Office while Joyce scholars patiently await publication under new public record arrangements . |
| 4 | For deep in the vaults of Protestant Kirks there are no altars to the dead and no prayers to them or for them . |
| 5 | However , a detailed examination in the early 1980s of nearly 1,000 coffins of the period 1730–1860 in the vaults of Christchurch , Spitalfields , revealed a wealth of information previously unrecorded . |
| 6 | In the vaults of this pleasant Late Gothic Episcopal Church ( 1818 ) is buried Sir Henry Raeburn , the famous Scots portrait painter . |
| 7 | The Vaults , at ( ) , in the vaults of an old chapel , has a 60-plus strong wine list . |
| 8 | ‘ In the vaults of the chapel of the Palace of San Severo . |
| 9 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 10 | They were certainly not affixed to the merchandise as labels in the same way that some furniture makers and picture framers did , as a recent examination of some one thousand coffins in the vaults at Christchurch , Spitalfields , has proved . |
| 11 | A very fine light green velvet — almost eau-de-Nil — was seen on a child 's coffin in the vaults at St Paul 's , Shadwell , and made all the more attractive with its gilt furniture . |
| 12 | ‘ His moveables are kept in the vaults below the hall here . |
| 13 | A number of cases of this type were noticed at Christchurch , Spitalfields , and St Marylebone parish church as well as in the vaults beneath St Paul 's , Shadwell , and St John 's , Wapping . |
| 14 | The winning words in the 1990s will be those spoken in the languages of our customers . |
| 15 | Gender is a basic grammatical category in the languages of the world . |
| 16 | Most claims about markedness involve comparisons across languages ; for example , a particular word order might turn out to be much commoner , less unexpected than the alternatives in the languages of the world or of a certain language family . |
| 17 | Are these categories of thought manifest in the languages of advocacy and judgment within public law ? |
| 18 | In particular three forms are prescribed , which to minimise translation problems are required to be printed either in all four official languages of the Organization of American States ( English , French , Portuguese and Spanish ) or at least in the languages of the states of origin and destination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it is tremendously varied in the languages of the world . |
| 27 | On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is likely that in the larger cities at any rate there was considerable change in the personnel of the ruling oligarchies , the members of which clearly were drawn from outside and aspired to return to the country if they could make their fortunes . |
| 30 | 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 . |