Example sentences of "in [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition , present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 2 | In the category judgement task , they had to say whether the word " games " had any category members in Everyone at home played monopoly . |
| 3 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 4 | There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 6 | I never confided in them about anything except school or college . |
| 7 | She is not blind to Stead 's faults as a storyteller : indeed she actually revels in them as an indication of Stead 's generosity of vision . |
| 8 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 9 | those apparently naturalised representations of events and situations relating to race , whether ‘ factual ’ or ‘ fictional ’ , which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions . |
| 10 | The consensus that emerged about the teachers who had mattered to them was neither that they were strict nor that they were liberal , but simply that they were interested in them as people . |
| 11 | The pagan Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are much easier to date because of the larger number of artefacts found in them as grave-goods . |
| 12 | If there is no particular justification for these categories , and they appear to be somewhat arbitrary , what faith can schools then have in them as a basis for review ? |
| 13 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 14 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 15 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 16 | ‘ So I compromised by redesigning the base as a set of flat plates with circular holes cut in them through which sets of moulded hemispheres could be pushed . |
| 17 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 18 | No places were to be taken to be within the forest if no Forest courts had been held , verderers elected or regards made in them since 1565 . |
| 19 | City go into the 117th League derby without a win in them since their 5-1 landslide victory at Maine Road under former manager Mel Machin three years ago . |
| 20 | Such deeds or instruments as a rule require for their validity to be registered under the Bills of Sale Acts ( 1878 and 1882 ) , which have been passed to prevent persons from obtaining credit by continuing to remain in possession of goods when they have secretly transferred their interest in them to others . |
| 21 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 22 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 23 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 24 | Nature displayed in this form beats abstract art hands down ; the pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful that one can wallow in them for hours and quite forget geology . |
| 25 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
| 26 | Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize . |
| 27 | The enumeration districts with sufficient non-whites in them for reliable rates were those with 10 per cent . |
| 28 | ‘ I bought them all , ’ he remembers , ‘ John Hedgecoe 's book of this , David Bailey 's book of that , and I totally immersed myself in them for six months . |
| 29 | Unlike most clergy houses , which had either too little furniture in them for reasons of poverty or too much from the wrong sort of inheritance , Canon Wheeler 's had just the right amount in the right places . |
| 30 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |