Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 2 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 3 | Inevitably this process will address difficult questions and may generate difficult solutions which may in turn have severe effects on existing interests both inside and outside the organisation . |
| 4 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 5 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 6 | erm If you further make things difficult from the point of view of actually banning imports of timber from Uganda you may in fact be able . |
| 7 | On the rose analogy there must in fact be violence done to beauty , it must certainly be destroyed before beauty can be made truly beautiful by the addition of scent or verse in their most powerful concentrated forms as perfume or sonnet . |
| 8 | It was also suggested that as highly competitive traders they would in fact probably benefit from the more open European market after 1992 . |
| 9 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 10 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 11 | Used carefully , however , over an extended period , Indian patronage could permit a politician to capitalise upon feelings of gratitude aroused by acts of seemingly disinterested friendship several years earlier , acts which would in fact be quietly brought to mind by a shrewd politician 's regular enquiries about the activities of his young friend in India . |
| 12 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 13 | I listened carefully as I want to learn all the green I can in case Maggie comes our way . |
| 14 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 15 | These may have a direct effect on the child , or reduce the birthweight of the child which will in turn increase the possibility of mental handicap . |
| 16 | Strict enforcement of speed limits on motorways and other main roads in Britain would lead to a reduction in fuel consumption which would in turn reduce the country 's pollution problems , according to the environmental consultancy Earth Resources Research . |
| 17 | This proposal to establish a council which would in effect supervise the government of the realm while the king was overseas was the clearest echo of the Ordinances , though with the crucial difference that it was to function only as long as the king was out of the realm : it was not the intention of the commons to subject the king permanently to conciliar restraint . |
| 18 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 19 | Well if er , more women do take hormone replacement therapy and we cut the osteoporosis we will in fact have far money in the health service besi , because it costs a hundred and eighty million pounds a year to treat hip fractures alone at the moment ! |
| 20 | Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough 's achievements with Nottingham Forest . |
| 21 | ( That is why this journal has consistently argued for a redirection of commission funds towards basic research , for the sake of the skill it can in principle provide . ) |
| 22 | In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background . |
| 23 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 24 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 25 | To these self-appointed custodians of public morals it was even more appalling that those very classes who should in theory be the hope and backbone of republicanism were equally infected by the general tone of light-mindedness : |
| 26 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 27 | Some of the surplus there could in fact have been ploughed into a er further extensions of the present residents ' parking , but of course , as has been mentioned here , I welcome the , the modest er extension of the residents ' parking into the other half of |
| 28 | Furthermore if the search resolves the ambiguity it will in future save all the expense that would otherwise be incurred in fighting the rival interpretations through the courts . |
| 29 | Often the result is that the child , and subsequently the adult , in order to avoid punishment , will suppress feelings which might in fact be quite normal and natural , and indeed necessary to the human condition . |
| 30 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |