Example sentences of "[verb] in [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient lacks the requisite capacity , then the doctors must act in what they perceive to be his or her best interests , with information garnered from previous knowledge of the patient , discussion with family and friends , and taking into account any relevant directive previously made by the patient . |
| 2 | They must act in what they believe to be the best interests of the company . |
| 3 | The chairman , unless stripped of veto authority , will always act in what he or she perceives to be the best interests of the agency . |
| 4 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 5 | The distinctive feature of the method lies in what it does not do . |
| 6 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 7 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 8 | Thus when Clarkson spoke movingly to the gathered World Convention of 1840 he was intended to symbolise continuity and provide in what he stood for a unifying focus . |
| 9 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 10 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 11 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 12 | In terms of content , however , reports varied in what they concentrated on . |
| 13 | I could never cram in what she does in a day ’ . |
| 14 | Each had bell-like clarity of a tone ( a kind of Belinda-ish voice ) , each rejoiced in what she was singing , and each was an adorable person . |
| 15 | Cos it 's not actually working algebraic that calculator at the present moment I do n't know what you 've got it programmed in What you 've got it at but it 's not working algebraic . |
| 16 | All other teams are instantly relagated to shiteball teams and have no say in what they do or if they are honoured by an invitation from the team of the universe to play them then the scum also have the right to select the opposition team and to decide on the appropriate scoreline before the match begins . |
| 17 | Central planners uncomfortable with the confusion and uncertainty of the market-place will also be pleased to learn that the consumer will have little say in what he wears : ‘ Various shades of red , blue and grey will be in favour , ’ the agency announced . |
| 18 | She 's entitled to some say in what you do . |
| 19 | And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure . |
| 20 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 21 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Blackadder shows a group of those charming still lives in which she gathers some of the objects to be found in her Edinburgh home and paints them as if they were in situ . |
| 23 | A publisher or distributor may very well be unaware of the contents of what he is circulating , although he might be thought to have some obligation to ascertain what is contained in what he is peddling . |
| 24 | I personally never start my exercise routine with the head and neck exercises in which you look from side to side and circle the head round . |
| 25 | Here was a back-to-the-wall President who BELIEVED in what he was saying and who shifted opinion overnight with a high-risk tour de force which seems to have swung next week 's referendum . |
| 26 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 27 | By living in what their parents called sin , they nailed their colours to the mast of youth revolt , while enjoying the security and mutual support of old-fashioned matrimony . |
| 28 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 29 | ( iv ) In many sections , Nietzsche 's points are not presented in what one might take to be their natural order . |
| 30 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |