Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country . |
| 2 | In recent years many economists have argued that there is another important indirect mechanism through which changes in money supply affect aggregate demand . |
| 3 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |
| 4 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 5 | One of them has in fact already opened just downtown in Arata Isosaki 's renovated space in a building at the corner of Prince Street and Broadway in the heart ( perhaps a more appropriate word would be bowels ) of SoHo . |
| 6 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 7 | Only one fragmentary letter of his survives in the canonical New Testament . |
| 8 | We know the approximate age of eight English bishops who were in possession of their sees in 1153 : all of them seem to have lived to be over seventy . |
| 9 | Appearance is a concern , but what I see is conditioned by my preconceptions , attitudes and information , all of which influences in varying degrees my choice of working locations . |
| 10 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 11 | Severn Tunnel yard went in October 1987 , and Margam Hump yard closed on 31 October 1988 , being replaced by the new 18 road Knuckle yard to cater for the huge growth in steel business , most of which travels in block trams . |
| 12 | In addition to the serious and much publicised problem of badger baiting and digging , much of which occurs in my own county , and sett stopping , there is the appalling road-kill statistic of some 47,500 badgers a year . |
| 13 | At that date there was no precise definition of which points in space-time lay inside a black hole and which lay outside . |
| 14 | From the high fields , figures come down the track laden with potatoes or with a bundle of mint , the scent of which lingers in the air after them . |
| 15 | The study of personality structure , he argued , the genesis of which lies in social interaction , offers the beginning of a conceptual resolution of the old mind — body dichotomy while at the same time relating the individual to his social setting . |
| 16 | The predominant unit of production in rural Cuba is the state farm , although there exists , despite the nationalisation of privately owned businesses in the 1960s , a distinct private sector in the countryside , half of which lies in Oriente province the home of the peasants who supported Castro in his bid for power . |
| 17 | So why have these workers been so keen to graft their ambitions on to terminology , the Latin root of which lies in patrician — plebian ; master — slave ; patron — dependant subservience ? |
| 18 | As one , for example , ‘ Morte Arthur ’ , the whole pleasure of which standeth in two special points , in open manslaughter and bold bawdry … |
| 19 | The answer is to use a hair-rig ( a full description of which appears in the carp chapter ) , which allows us to present the bait on a fine hookless line , backed up with a big hook with which to play the fish . |
| 20 | Object orientation means that everything , from a program to a file , is an object , and you would work on a file rather than in a program — it 's an attitude , a state of mind , and can be emulated in Windows 3.1 to some extent by associating file extensions with applications and using object linking and embedding , a form of which appears in OS/2 . |
| 21 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |
| 22 | In fact , it has risen by 2.5 percent , forcing the government to import about 7 per cent of its supply from France , Belgium and Germany , most of which originates in nuclear generation . |
| 23 | Although Harris Adacom Corp is nominally the parent holding company , most research and development and manufacturing work continues in Israel , where there is a byzantine corporate structure consisting of Adacom Technologies Ltd , the holding company quoted on the Tel Aviv stock exchange , and six subsidiaries , each of which specialises in different areas of the business . |
| 24 | US accountants face six specific obstacles when fighting a damages claim , none of which arises in UK law . |
| 25 | The laborious compilation of exhaustive ‘ histories ’ , or tables of instances , is an essential first stage of Bacon 's method , the second of which consists in the scrutiny and examination of these many and varied instances to find their common form . |
| 26 | On April 7th 1855 , Charles Edward Prior MD , was elected by 29 votes to 12 on the second round of voting , and remained in post until June 1st 1900 ; he and his successor , Dr. Goldsmith , kept medical report books , the earliest survivor of which begins in February 1873 . |
| 27 | There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved . |
| 28 | This does n't mean I have to define truth , merely produce two important truisms about it , each of which has in fact been proposed as a definition . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports . |
| 30 | He had a quick sense of humour , with a Victorian weakness for outrageous puns , little of which shows in his mature poetry except in his play with language . |