Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
| 2 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 3 | It makes me sad , it makes me angry and erm I do n't know erm what other feelings it causes in me . |
| 4 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
| 5 | It was Massine 's ballets which suited him best , especially Mam'zelle Angot , in which he took several parts at different times ; the sardonic humour he showed as the bootmaker in the market scene still lingers in my memory . |
| 6 | Moreover , for most people the law these institutions make is the law that counts in their lives . |
| 7 | Though we did not measure reticulocyte counts in our patients there was no evidence from the blood films of significant reticulocytosis or polychromasia and it seems unlikely that this explanation might have contributed to our results . |
| 8 | Her best known novel , Memoirs of the Emperor Hadrian , is a work of scholarship and fiction , but , unlike the narratologists , she believed in the truth of history and the often melancholy tone of her writing lies in her regret that the dead have no more truthful memorial than that which the living can provide . |
| 9 | Her eventual release can only come about through the death of Doc and the proof of her recovery lies in her willingness to participate in a wedding-feast . |
| 10 | Artist Richard Stone has captured in her eyes and the set of her face the steely determination of a woman who knows that the very survival of the monarchy lies in her hands alone . |
| 11 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 12 | The importance of Kittay 's formulation lies in her wide definition of the type of linguistic unit that can be labelled metaphoric . |
| 13 | Her features are pronounced enough already , and much of her attractiveness lies in her sense of style and good grooming . |
| 14 | The reason lies in what happens at the insulated gate itself . |
| 15 | A pile of grimy bed-linen lies in what was once a ward . |
| 16 | The basis for education 's ability to bring about this process of social reproduction lies in what Bourdieu terms cultural capital . |
| 17 | The distinctive feature of the method lies in what it does not do . |
| 18 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 19 | The explanation for the futures price jumping suddenly lies in what is happening in the market for the underlying good , i.e. in the spot or cash market . |
| 20 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 21 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 22 | The difficulty here lies in what " this " refers to in the second sentence . |
| 23 | CAMRA 's strength lies in its style of organisation . |
| 24 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 25 | One indicator of the SLD 's campaigning strength lies in its performance compared with that of the Greens . |
| 26 | Its charm lies in its basic simplicity , a hemispherical structure of birch trunks , wind-proofed around the outside with turf bricks . |
| 27 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |
| 28 | Part of its sorcery lies in its ability to instil the same exhilaration from a short run up the road on a Sunday morning , but most of it comes from that aggressive thrust of power that is always more than enough for any driving situation . ’ |
| 29 | Its significance lies in its double message : that the aim of the Palestinian struggle is the establishment of Palestinian independence , and that this independence is regarded as being not at Israel 's expense . |
| 30 | Mr Pavey says the secret of his project 's success lies in its unobtrusive design . |