Example sentences of "[pron] in [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 2 | We looked at ourselves in terms of our compulsive traits , seeing the weakest aspects of our inner lives . |
| 3 | Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist ! |
| 4 | To administer and collect income tax a new arm of administration had to be created comprising experts , officials and clerks : an " army " which in terms of its efficiency and rapacity came to be the equal of the long-esteemed Excise . |
| 5 | One of them was the fact that housing associations ask for the keys is or ask for notification up to a month in advance of the fact that someone 's going to leave and that is not something which in terms of our stock , we find practical to do . |
| 6 | The poor get theirs in ways of which we disapprove : consider nineteenth-century attitudes to working-class drinking . |
| 7 | Thus Billig and Cochrane ( 1984 ) report that during their research a white girl , who in discussions with them had expressed strongly racist views , was seen walking out of school arm in arm with an Asian girl . |
| 8 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |
| 9 | A solicitor will tell you whether you have a case and what your chances of succeeding in any claim might be ; he or she will advise you where — Court or Tribunal — and will explain the procedure and steps to be taken throughout , and will represent you in negotiations with your employer if you wish . |
| 10 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 11 | Inversion becomes a kind of transgressive mimesis : the subculture , even as it imitates , reproducing itself in terms of its exclusion , also demystifies , producing a knowledge of the dominant which excludes it , this being a knowledge which the dominant has to suppress in order to rule . |
| 12 | For a country that almost defines itself in terms of its distinctive education system , such changes are seen as an attack on the Scottish way of life . |
| 13 | It is also seen as similarly elusive , something in terms of which everything else has objectivity but which can not itself be determined as an object . |
| 14 | The onus is on us to extend our understanding of that society , rather than to insist on seeing everything in terms of our ready-made distinctions . |
| 15 | I have mentioned Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian and the most charming of scholars , who was of great assistance to me in researches for my naval documentaries and books . |
| 16 | Dana went back to his room at the Hospedaje Lisboa , leaving me in tears on my bed , sunk in despair . |
| 17 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 18 | Will you come back to me in terms of who you want to invite , taking on Liz Kermey 's point about involving people themselves if they so wish , and we 'll consult with the opposition liaison member and the vice-chair . |
| 19 | I 've given up trying to buy stamps from the Post Office — again because the queues are so long — and I now get them in books from my newsagent . |
| 20 | Both have much to do to achieve the aspirations they set themselves : we can not choose between them in terms of which of them is going to take social research forward . |
| 21 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 22 | It 's one of the decisions that are actually made by them in terms of what they use so erm that could be something that is |
| 23 | In spite of the differences in the declared aims of the two sorts of day care , and in their staffing , studies have found very little difference between them in terms of what the people who use them actually do . |
| 24 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 25 | So tonight you 're actually to do a little bit of discussion , and tonight , tomorrow morning , discussion with your colleague , to brief them in terms of what they need to do to fulfil that role . |
| 26 | The essential skill in setting call objectives is to phrase them in terms of what the salesperson wants the customer to do rather than what the salesperson will do . |
| 27 | The temptation , when setting objectives , is to determine them in terms of what the salesperson will do . |
| 28 | When dealing with large radii it is convenient to refer to them in terms of their versines . |
| 29 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 30 | These probabilities were not used to rule out alternatives , rather to rank them in terms of their likelihood . |