Example sentences of "in his [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — I write to support Duncan M Williams in his criticism of the ineffectiveness of our GMC negotiators . |
| 2 | Vincent Currie , the SDLP vice-chairman of Dungannon District Council , was outspoken in his criticism of the behaviour of members of the regiment in Coalisland last year . |
| 3 | In private , the lenders bristled , but Mike Blackburn , chief executive of Leeds Permanent Building Society was outspoken in his criticism of the Government . |
| 4 | Campeanu was outspoken in his criticism of the idea that dollars channelled through private corporations should be accepted . |
| 5 | The reaction from Ulster Unionists has been an almost automatic rejection , but Downing Street has been keen to point out that Foley has been vocal in his criticism of the IRA and his appointment might not be such a bad move . |
| 6 | He is unsparing in his criticism of the arms-for-hostages operation ( though he is disappointingly brief about the linked support for Nicaragua 's contras ) . |
| 7 | He had seen no signs of His existence in his journey with the Doctor . |
| 8 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 9 | Even though Garrett was totally immersed in his work for the NASA Space Programme the treasure hunting flame still flickered . |
| 10 | There is much to be gained from integrating the considerations of culture and civil society in his work with the autonomist understanding of production and reproduction at the basal level which , at least for me , provides such a clear and coherent account of the capitalist relations of production and of the implications of those relations for class action . |
| 11 | In his work on the history of the ‘ political ’ press — namely that section of the press that exercised political influence — Koss identifies three broad historical phases . |
| 12 | We are well aware that many have attempted to combine these two stories , for example Anthony Giddens in his work on the concept of structuration . |
| 13 | In his work on The State and Revolution , which develops an area in which Marx was somewhat vague , he displays a ruthlessness and a disregard for individual dissent which it would be difficult to match . |
| 14 | He said he had earned an international reputation , particularly in his work on the transportation of dangerous chemicals . |
| 15 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 16 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 17 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 18 | The answer lies in his birthplace in the Ukraine and the reputation he enjoyed among dissidents and refusniks before his arrest and during his imprisonment . ’ |
| 19 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 20 | In his discussion of the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ , Black describes the work of metaphor in discursive terms : ‘ Any human traits that can without undue strain be talked about in ‘ wolf-language ’ will be rendered prominent , and any that can not will be pushed into the background' ( 41 ) . |
| 21 | One well-known and very important point about experimental work which emerges clearly from the studies discussed in this section is that in order to frame a specific hypothesis the experimenter needs to have acquired in advance a good deal of detailed knowledge ; Plutchik ( 1974 ) emphasizes this in his discussion of the applicability of experimental versus observational methods . |
| 22 | As Radin stressed in his discussion of the thought of primitive man , ‘ as soon as an object is regarded as a dynamic entity , then analysis and definition become both difficult and unsatisfactory . |
| 23 | In his discussion of the problem in ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud offers the initial hypothesis that mania is to be understood as a state in which the ego appears to have got over its loss of the object with the consequence that the instinctual drives previously fixated on it are now liberated — giving rise to the boundless energy and enthusiasm of the manic condition . |
| 24 | In his discussion of the problem , Otto Fenichel mentions ‘ food addicts ’ who ‘ are compelled violently and compulsively to devour whatever food is in reach at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | Cutler 's insufficiently dialectical treatment of the forces/relations nexus reaches its biggest problem in his discussion of the recording form itself , which has to be both the ‘ ultimate ’ musical commodity and to offer creative liberation . |
| 26 | Jakobson uses a culinary example in his discussion of the question which nicely complements the vessel-liquid image which is so often implied in the form-content distinction . |
| 27 | Field ( 1989 ) , in his discussion of the underclass , leaves out the racial dimension and emphasises the economic aspects . |
| 28 | Or , in his discussion of the banking and credit system , this interesting passage concerning the ability of individuals without their own capital to borrow funds and set up businesses : |
| 29 | In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ . |
| 30 | In addition to structures , therefore , there are also classes , and Poulantzas is anxious to keep the two categories apart — a desire which is particularly clear in his discussion of the relations which bind entities of each type . |