Example sentences of "and in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest changes are in the length of time people ill with the disease are now surviving and in the nature of the illnesses themselves . |
| 2 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 3 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 4 | Disputes over authorship are fiercely fought , and in the nature of things , frequently impossible to resolve with finality . |
| 5 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 6 | The Ethiopian book , published in Britain in 1983 , showed him to be a writer interested in ‘ autocrats ’ — in absolute power and in the transformation of that power into its indistinguishable opposite . |
| 7 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 8 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 10 | He knows how important to the power of his writings had been his fight with the Jews and the outrageous candour of his sexual descriptions , and in the recent writings this knowledge is conveyed by the proximity of an imagined truce to an imagined impotence . |
| 11 | Later in the present book there is a discussion of Roth 's regard for the literalism of Primo Levi , who is at his most imaginative when least imaginary , who was not all that successful at imagining things in the style commended in the Zuckerman letter : and in The Facts a related meaning is apparent . |
| 12 | And in the portrayal of the mechanic Mendel there is a portrayal of Levi . |
| 13 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 14 | joined the Royal Shakespeare Company playing Henry V , Laertes and King of Navarre in Love 's Labours Lost at Stratford upon Avon and in the Barbican Theatre , London . |
| 15 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 16 | One must also remember that the bulk of the clergy both in Ireland and in the remainder of catholic Europe came from rural backgrounds , where the sense of God is , or was , part of the air one breathes ( Acquaviva 1979 ) . |
| 17 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 18 | Yet the articles which followed qualified certain of these rights in a typically catholic way and in the terms of the papal teaching of the day . |
| 19 | They are also an invitation to those who exercise political power to reflect on the nature of man and of human society and in the enactment of laws to eschew the often brilliant attractions of pragmatism , of relativism or of short-term solutions in favour of lasting concern for the common good of all . |
| 20 | Schools can not have a real effect on children 's basic values because these have been instilled earlier by the process of primary socialization in the home and in the wider social community . |
| 21 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 22 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 23 | Once installed , he wrote , it will start to do its work , and it will go on doing it , in the day-time , in the night-time , in the midst of visitors and in the empty silence , when the mausoleum is open to the public and when the mausoleum is closed to the public . |
| 24 | No longer that fear , that ice round my heart and in the pit of my stomach . |
| 25 | Mrs Doran 's husband had been a loser to Phipps , both at golf and in the bedroom . |
| 26 | As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases , the bars of Stalls , Dress Circle and Upper Circle , keeping an eye on programme girls ( most of them certainly mature ) who , in their black dresses and little aprons , ushered , sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits ( coffee in the evenings ) , while in the orchestra pit the band ( tuxedoed , although who knew whether their trousers matched ) played pleasing music . |
| 27 | I 'll check to see what 's on offer and in the meantime , how would you like a day 's pay here ? ’ |
| 28 | I worried all night , lest the listing in the local paper and in the Order of St John country handbook had not been enough . |
| 29 | In such a climate it seems even more suitable to pursue the creation of a radical , insider ethnography and in the not too distant past this even seemed to have official support . |
| 30 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |