Example sentences of "in something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , caught up in something of the optimism in the British Imperial Headquarters at Cairo after General Wavell 's sweeping desert victories of December 1940 , was aware of these and many more problems as he completed a survey through the periscope of a mine-laying submarine off the island of Rhodes , which lies close to the Turkish coast ( see map p. 116 ) . |
| 2 | No doubt McDowell could make do with first-order ‘ quasi'-knowledge in a theory of cognitive representations for ‘ lower ’ species ( in something of the form suggested by Field 1978 ) , stopping short of the special problems posed by the diagnosis of the higher-order beliefs and intentions involved in a Gricean or sub-Gricean mechanism ( cf. |
| 3 | Besides , Marco is in something of the position of Anthony Hope 's Rassendyll : he is a representative , the royal candidate , as well as a boy of twelve , and we need to feel that he stands a little apart from the stance of an ordinary boy-hero . |
| 4 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 5 | A citizen of , say , Thespiai was also a citizen of federal Boiotia , in something of the way that in Attica demesmen of , say , Sounion were also Athenians . |
| 6 | Morton ( 1968 ) therefore proposed that logogen activation ‘ … decays very rapidly with time , reaching its original value in something of the order of 1 second . ’ |
| 7 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 8 | As the carriages were successively condemned , the ‘ receiver ’ , who ran the railway , would buy up job lots and you never knew if you would be travelling in something from the Brecon & Merthyr , the London & South Western , or the Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith . |
| 9 | In something like the Adagio of the Eighth Symphony we intuitively experience an overall stability , a kind of musical wholeness . |
| 10 | Re Yet in something like the Schoenberg Op. 31 Orchestral Variations you used the recording process in a quite radical way ? |
| 11 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 12 | But the term could be extended , so that kangaroos might be said to represent deer in Australia because they live in something like the same way . |
| 13 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 14 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 15 | I first went , I suppose in in something like the nineteen seventies , and I can remember in those days having some difficulty getting into the country . |
| 16 | that even in something like the choir it 's somebody that you should of struck up a , er a relationship you know , over several |