Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No actress alive better captures the ferocious pathos of the little heartbreak writ large , and although her immaculate comic technique sustains whole passages of visual lunacy , she has in addition the much rarer theatrical gift of being able to transmit emotion in its purest form . |
| 2 | She says in case the folk see the blue bloom , because she was out working . |
| 3 | In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute . |
| 4 | ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 5 | And the Epilogue also points forward in its closing words to ‘ a new tale ’ , because ‘ our present one is ended ’ , and the narrator says he has in mind the slow regeneration of Raskolnikov , now in prison , through love and suffering . |
| 6 | He specifies 150 years because he has in mind the social and political reforms of Peter the Great in the early Eighteenth Century . |
| 7 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 8 | It examines in depth the important area of doping control of school-age competitors . |
| 9 | He seems in retrospect the Mahatma 's fated antagonist . |
| 10 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 11 | ( It was inaugurated with Il Podestà di Colognole ossia La Tancia by Jacopo Melani ( 1626–76 ) , a comic opera with some broadly comic , as well as much beautiful music , e.g. Ciapino 's aria in Act II where he imitates in turn the frog , cricket , lamb , owl , and cock . ) |
| 12 | As the British conservative Roger Scruton rather inelegantly expresses his own indignation about feminist linguistic reform , ‘ Each of us inherits in language the wisdom of many generations . |