Example sentences of "[noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 32 | [ Mark Levene , ‘ Anglo-Jewish Foreign Policy in Crisis — Lucien Wolf , the Conjoint Committee and the War , 1914–18 ’ , Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. xxx , 1987–8 ; Chimen Abramsky , ‘ Lucien Wolf 's Efforts for the Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe ’ , ibid. , vol. xxix , 1982–6 ; Josef Fraenkel , ‘ Lucien Wolf and Theodor Herzl ’ , ibid. , vol. xx , 1959–61 ; Max Beloff , ‘ Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente 1907–1914 ’ in The Intellectual in Politics and the Other Essays , 1970 . ] |
| 33 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 34 | The tension that every honest office-holder in the Church must feel between ‘ the system ’ and his ( male language appropriate here ) Christian pastoral impulses is most acute for the Bishop of Rome . |
| 35 | When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . |
| 36 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 37 | In addition , he insisted on doing the stunts that were in his power himself , like Lying face-down in freezing mud for a scene that would take almost two days to shoot . |
| 38 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 39 | Belov had studied her and contrived her release … and for him it had ended with his body face-down in the icy waters of the Neva . |
| 40 | Next morning she 's found floating face-down in the Thames . |
| 41 | We had an altercation that soon resolved itself with me lying face-down in a damp bed of cardboard boxes at the loot of a hidden staircase . |
| 42 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 43 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 44 | There is no indigenous Welsh wheel in the Welsh Folk Museum so I would certainly feel that your wheel came from the Bristol builders . |
| 45 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 46 | ‘ Then wheel in the prisoner . |
| 47 | Pistolet Blue , the 1991 Arc de Triomphe third , was surprisingly beaten into second place by Fortune 's Wheel in the Prix d'Harcourt at Longchamp yesterday . |
| 48 | You will also catch a glimpse of the Big Wheel in the famous Peter fairground . |
| 49 | The most obvious of these building elements are plates arranged radially , looking like the spokes of a bicycle wheel in section ( septa ) . |
| 50 | The first wheel in use was the Great or Walking Wheel , which required space for the spinner to walk to and fro . |
| 51 | There you will see thousands of cars speeding by , each with the driver alone , his head thrown back as he yells the words aloud , her fist slapping the wheel in time to the beat , thousands of silent screams haring up the M1 to get to that meeting on schedule . |
| 52 | It was a rugged journey : the only known wheel in Tibet was the prayer wheel . |
| 53 | The Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming , for example , has a 12ft ( 4m ) diameter central cairn and twenty-eight lines of stones radiating as spokes . |
| 54 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 55 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 56 | Once the channel has been selected ( with or without bass shift ) using the requisite button , a patch can be selected and adjustments made using the Data wheel in conjunction with the volume , gain and EQ buttons . |
| 57 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |
| 58 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 59 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |
| 60 | The whole kit is neatly housed in a semi-circular , strong plastic , self-locking carry-case , which can be strapped next to the spare wheel in many cars , and is both convenient and light enough to carry around . |