Example sentences of "in [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 2 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 3 | In any case , choral singers tend to apply themselves more strongly when divided parts create in them a sense of greater responsibility and individuality . |
| 4 | A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land . |
| 5 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 6 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 7 | The more conservative dons viewed these ideas and their proponents with alarm , seeing in them a threat to the traditional values and methods of literary scholarship . |
| 8 | There is in them a warmth that melts the icicle . |
| 9 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 10 | He never patronized the disabled but restored in them a zest for life and work . |
| 11 | Mr Baranczak finds in them a galaxy of individualists , an anti-universe to the communist state . |
| 12 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 13 | While the Psalmi Davidis penitentiales were commissioned by Albrecht V , their textual expressiveness of the kind we have already noticed in Rore ( p. 2– ) is so intense that one is tempted to hear in them a note of personal anguish . |
| 14 | New moralists argued that contemporary society denied women ‘ those varied love-makings from the other sex ’ , which would arouse in them a desire to fill life ‘ with a space of joy and delight ’ . |
| 15 | That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour . |
| 16 | The Bill will produce the finance necessary to allow the mines to operate efficiently and effectively , and will give the people who work in them the opportunity to feel that they are part of an industry no longer hooked on public subsidy . |
| 17 | ‘ And I appeal to employers to look on our ex-service people and see in them the opportunity for the loyal , dedicated , hard-working men and women that they are . ’ |
| 18 | But if we do , we should also discern in them the origins of the teamwork and collaboration that we have brought to an unparalleled peak of complexity and that has brought us some of our greatest achievements . |
| 19 | In them the meditator projects a dramatisation of his own reaction to the Passion as a present reality . |
| 20 | These cases lie on the borderline between construction and interpretation of an established disposition : in them the trust is resurrected in a form which satisfies the testator 's aims , where a civil-law disposition could only have failed . |
| 21 | In them the racks and shelves were filled with clothes made in the factory here . |
| 22 | As Locke defines them , they ‘ contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves , but are considered as dependences on , or affections of substances ’ . |
| 23 | A major requirement of a religion then , must be that , above all , it shall be capable of a simplified , but undistorted interpretation capable of being taught to the very young in such a way that it will instil in them the stirrings of what will become their consciences , that is , they will harbour a subconscious awareness of the fundamental nature of right and wrong as these are applied to those areas of human aspirations where they are beyond dispute . |
| 24 | The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience . |
| 25 | I do not envy those who only see in them the messengers of evil tidings , forebodings of rain , and who think the landscape is devoid of loveliness because the sun does not shine — because there is not an Italian sky overhead , and that the open car or gig he travels in is not a Pullman car . |
| 26 | A hundred years of missionary effort had failed utterly ; its only effect had been to confirm the Abyssinians in their attachment to their ancient faith and to sow in them the seeds of xenophobia . |
| 27 | Such an equilibrium is stable ; that is , the price , if displaced a little from it , will tend to return , as a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point ; and it will be found to be a characteristic of stable equilibria that in them the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , and vice versa . |
| 28 | These are essentially isolated from the main curricular work of a school and for those involved in them the profile has its own validity in the same way that , for example , RSA typing examinations have always done . |
| 29 | In 1644 the Puritans , seeing in them the remains of a pagan tradition , had them banned by Parliament . |
| 30 | And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ? |