Example sentences of "[adj] in the [noun] of others " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 2 | She had met people of this genre before — intense , smart , well-connected , impulsive , communicative , insatiably interested in the affairs of others — and she would , she supposed , upon interrogation , have classed herself , at least in aspiration , as one of the genre . |
| 3 | For one thing , they often feel that they must hide their condition in order not to appear foolish in the eyes of others . |
| 4 | Whatever is good in the writings of others should be copied , and constant reference should be made to such books as an English grammar , Roget 's Thesaurus and a good dictionary . |
| 5 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 6 | This sequence is saved from being completely arbitrary by the narrator becoming involved in the plan of others . |
| 7 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 8 | Kleinwort has advised that the buy-out offer looks too cheap , but that in the absence of others shareholders should consider it seriously . |
| 9 | Secondly , scientific and technological advances allowing exploitation and exploration of areas not previously susceptible to such activities , and the corresponding increased capacity to exhaust the world 's resources or to monopolise a market , mean that even those States that lack the resources to take advantage themselves are still directly concerned in the activities of others . |
| 10 | They provide the writers with a language by which they can recognise and communicate their sense of an ineffable being with the dynamic power to transform their lives , and the purpose of their writing is to release that dynamic in the lives of others . |
| 11 | Some elderly persons are very inward-looking and completely uninterested in the lives of others , even those of their close family . |
| 12 | After a few days , her hunger becomes so great that she goes away to feed , leaving her young in the charge of others . |