Example sentences of "in thrall to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a man in thrall to the gaudy , tattered pageant of Africa . |
| 2 | Interest rates will stay high , and while the pound remains in thrall to the mark , there is no scope for more than a token cut . |
| 3 | Economic dirigisme merely legitimates the use of political power to protect powerful vested interests : the Italian economy and political class are largely in thrall to the big companies . |
| 4 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 5 | A space hulk wallowed in the spangled spectral abyss , in thrall to the random currents of the warp ; and it was there that Veils of Light had docked , slipping in to some gaping port . |
| 6 | But the world may end up with both projects , a waste of resources that will stunt other science — and might well hold back particle physics , as generations of physicists find themselves growing up in thrall to the vast machines , with no alternative experiments to pursue . |
| 7 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 8 | He pointed at the boys in thrall to the film . |
| 9 | ‘ He is held in thrall to the Dark Ireland , but it was not my enchantment that chained him . ’ |
| 10 | May I make it clear to my hon. Friend that this is a document that the Labour party simply could not write , because the principle of being critical of the producer is anathema to a party that is totally in thrall to the producers ? |