Example sentences of "by [noun prp] in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 2 | This section discusses the concepts used by Williamson in his analysis of the firm . |
| 3 | Despite the notes , and the polaroids made by Farwaggi in his anteroom , and the trays of fruit , club sandwiches , croques and so on — the cheerfully arranged amuse-gueules from the kitchen ordered for each girl — he finds he is becoming confused about their identities . |
| 4 | In a highly dramatic demonstration during a meeting on localization function held in London in 1881 Ferrier demonstrated that the recovery of movement described by Goltz in his studies was due to sparing part of this motor cortex . |
| 5 | That Lalande and other French composers of his time , notably Charpentier , were often being deliberately Italian in style is so well documented that surely it is self-evident , especially in faster movements such as ‘ Et rege eos ’ , marked with the unambiguous Italian expression vivace by Lalande in his autograph score ( Cauvin and the 1729 edition employ légèrement and tres légèrement respectively ) , and the final vite sections ( ‘ Non confundar ’ ) , that equal fast notes are called for ? |
| 6 | It was performed at the festival of Dionysus in Athens and is said by Aristotle in his Poetics ( c. 330 B.C. ) to have originated in the Dionysiac dithyramb . |
| 7 | The Palestinians rejected the Israeli demand , repeated by Shamir in his Oct. 7 Knesset address , that the names of the " Palestinian element of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation " should be " approved " by the Israeli government before the beginning of the negotiations . |
| 8 | An aspect omitted by Dudek in his description of Smith 's work . |
| 9 | These ideas have no scientific basis and no sound evidence was offered by Devereux in his book . |
| 10 | This is a statement , in more general terms , of the conclusion reached by Freud in his treatment of hysterics : he was able to relate a specific physiological symptom , such as facial neuralgia , to a specific and painful psychic event , such as a bitter remark received years earlier by the patient as a slap in the face . |
| 11 | The concepts were developed to conceptualize problems which arose in therapeutic work — problems such as the resistance of patients to being well at all , and not merely to particular interpretations offered to them by Freud in his role as analyst . |
| 12 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 13 | This process of role retreatism that follows from status denial has been described particularly graphically by Riseborough in his study of a group of middle-aged , male secondary modern teachers who had been reorganized into an academically dominated comprehensive . |
| 14 | There is , however , some conflict between detail provided by Gregory in his Histories and that to be found in his other works ; moreover earlier evidence is at odds both with specific points in the Histories , and also with their general interpretation , which sees Clovis 's reign as the manifestation of divine support granted to the king after his conversion . |
| 15 | Two other bailiffs are named by Thotte in his Registrum Roffense , they are Petro de Widmore and Adam Lylye , who are described in Latin as Tunc Ballivio de Halling ( meaning bailiff at this time ) , later Adam Lylye is described as Serviant de Halling . |
| 16 | At any rate , some of those rebel chefs must surely know , even if they do n't acknowledge as much , that some of their most publicised inventions were not their inventions at all , but were derived however indirectly , from the Polish and Jewish recipes published or described by Pomiane in his books and radio talks of the 19305 . |
| 17 | The first attempt to study the subject on a broader basis and in a more systematic fashion was by Kemble in his Horae Ferales ( 1863 ) . |
| 18 | A vivid portrait of a successful charlatan exploiting the second-century Christians is given by Lucian in his Peregrinus . |
| 19 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 20 | This dilemma was highlighted in the opening quotations , and later by Ross in his comparison of the shortfall between the aims and the assessment objectives for art and music GCSE . |
| 21 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 22 | Still later , the Laurion mines surely helped to subsidize the Peloponnesian War : they are neglected by Thucydides in his statement of Athenian finances ( ii . |
| 23 | Tufa was dug and used in large quantities by Gundulph in his Cathedral at Rochester , and also in the building of West MaIling Abbey ( 1077–1108 ) . |
| 24 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 25 | The extreme positivist version of behaviourism which Skinner propounded was effectively demolished by Chomsky in his review of Verbal Behaviour ( Chomsky 1959 in Allen & van Buren 1971 : 136–9 , 147–8 ) . |
| 26 | And ma'am just to deal with one point which was made raised by Mr in his statement , I can not we we have un undertaken a very detailed landscape analysis . |
| 27 | Jacob Bernays was the first to notice , in 1866 , that a fragment of Theophrastus ' book On Piety concerning the Jews was quoted by Porphyry in his treatise On Abstinence ( 2.26 ) . |
| 28 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 29 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 30 | A hammer carried by Carrington in his canvas bag of tools soon tapped them into a loosened position . |