Example sentences of "in [pron] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a conviction for dishonesty will not invariably justify dismissal , it is more likely to do so in the case of a senior executive in whom a high level of trust is invested . |
| 2 | It has been reported that there is an association between duodenal ulcer and PGA phenotype A. In addition , two families with a prominent history of duodenal ulcer have been described in whom a high level of serum PGA ( hyperpepsinogenaemia I ) is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with a high risk of developing duodenal ulcer . |
| 3 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 4 | It 's as if somewhere in me a certain amount of good-will and kindness is manufactured every day ; and it must come out . |
| 5 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 6 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 7 | But there is no invention possible , whether it be philosophical or poetic , without the presence in the inventing subject of an abundance of the other , of the diverse … there is no invention of other I's , no poetry , no fiction without a certain homosexuality ( interplay therefore of bisexuality ) making in me a crystallized work of my ultra subjectivities . |
| 8 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 9 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 10 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 11 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 12 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 13 | Two tests are widely available — amniocentesis , in which a small sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus is withdrawn and analysed , and chorionic villus sampling , in which a tiny piece of placenta is checked . |
| 14 | sport in which a rounded stick with a basket-work hilt is used like a fencing foil . |
| 15 | The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context . |
| 16 | It may relate to a packaging problem in which a fixed number of unrelated items have to be pressed into the smallest volume . |
| 17 | " Feelings Groups " in which a regular group of people in early recovery meet in a group , supervised by a professional counsellor , to discover and express their feelings in a safe environment and thereby gain awareness and practice for the awareness and expression of those feelings in the " real " world . |
| 18 | By guiding the listener through his very personal European museum , he endeavours to suggest ways in which a tangible partnership in 1992 and beyond may flourish . |
| 19 | It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign . |
| 20 | Crime in general is not , therefore , a product of worklessness but a product of the way in which a capitalist mode of production sets man against man and ‘ systematically ’ prioritizes individual self interest as rational social practice . |
| 21 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 22 | Two tests are widely available — amniocentesis , in which a small sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus is withdrawn and analysed , and chorionic villus sampling , in which a tiny piece of placenta is checked . |
| 23 | It also says that the Government is considering whether it would be possible to frame a prohibition to cover situations in which a small number of companies or partnerships control a market and abuse their joint market power , without recourse to a restrictive agreement or collusion . |
| 24 | It is possible that those who theorise about choice and independence are sometimes out of touch with the misery and squalor in which a small number of old people live . |
| 25 | The white paper is a prescription for a massively scaled-down industry in which a small number of pits will fill the market while others go by the wayside . |
| 26 | However , the hover fly and poached egg association shows clearly that this is a direction in which a great deal of research needs to be done . |
| 27 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 28 | Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself , the new replicators will tend to take over , and start a new kind of evolution of their own . |
| 29 | Nor is Wilson likely to have forgotten an earlier incident in which a young lady in the cabinet office had to be charged and was convicted of supplying documents to a South African intelligence agent . |
| 30 | Must there always be a two-way element , or are there circumstances in which a one-way flow of support is regarded as acceptable and even appropriate ? |