Example sentences of "in [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploring pictures and identifying detail in them soon becomes storytelling : ‘ What is the little girl doing ? ’ ; |
| 2 | Locke 's political philosophy is mainly contained in his anonymously published Treatises of Government ( 1690 ) . |
| 3 | Michael Young , in his paradoxically assumed role , quotes approvingly the strictures of Lord James on misguided attempts to generalize an élite education : |
| 4 | Macmillan recorded meeting Nkrumah 's wife ( he had married an Egyptian Coptic Christian ) and noted ‘ the pride and pleasure which he took in his newly born son . |
| 5 | James moved swiftly into the disorder being wreaked in his carefully arranged plates , set in order of service . |
| 6 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 7 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 8 | It consists mainly of criticism of the theories of absolute monarchy and the divine right of Kings , for which Robert Filmer had argued in his posthumously published Patriarcha ( 1680 ) . |
| 9 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |
| 10 | In his widely cited study Delinquent Boys , Cohen questions whether delinquent behaviour is caused directly by the desire for material goals . |
| 11 | Michael Grimmitt in his widely read book , What can I do in RE ? |
| 12 | In his well argued submissions Mr. Wall submitted that the discretion conferred on the court by article 13 ( a ) of the Convention is a discretion to be exercised ( a ) within the context of the purpose and principles laid down by the Convention and ( b ) by applying the criteria contained within the Convention itself , and that it is accordingly not a discretion to exercise the inherent jurisdiction of the court in wardship or under the Children Act 1989 so as to act in what the court perceives to be the best interests of the child . |
| 13 | In his well designed writing , too , Spenser reveals that the fruits of Renaissance humanism with its concern for eloquence ( a matching of rhetoric and substance ) as a demonstration of moral civilised life can be used to argue genocide . |
| 14 | In a daze of ever-increasing passion , she barely noticed as he gently removed her clothes , suddenly glad to be free of them and astonished to find herself revelling in his softly whispered murmurs of delight , the fierce gleam in his grey eyes , before first his fingers and then his lips began tracing patterns of fire on her quivering flesh . |
| 15 | In his softly spoken New Zealand accent he says ‘ It 's the biggest and the most influential monastery in the area and is very much regarded as a religious and cultural centre for the local people . |
| 16 | What they had not bargained for was the prejudice of the trial judge , Lord Grant , who , as Nicky relates in his recently published memoirs , made it plain from the outset that he believed , as the police believed , that Meehan was guilty . |
| 17 | From there he moved on to Edinburgh , and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die . |
| 18 | In his beautifully written book , The Creation , the Oxford physical chemist Peter Atkins begins : I shall take your mind on a journey . |
| 19 | William Sherard spent many years abroad ( he was Consul at Smyrna from 1703–17 ) and enriched his brother James 's garden at Eltham with treasures from the Near East , which Dillenius recorded in his beautifully illustrated Hortus Elthamensis ( 1732 ) . |
| 20 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 21 | They made their way back , not to the abbey but the castle , Corbett sending ahead one of his escort to ask Wishart for an audience and when they arrived the old , foxy-faced Bishop was waiting for them in his now sweltering chambers , though still swathed in fur-trimmed robes . |
| 22 | In his finely written record , Mark Frankland gives due weight to all these factors . |
| 23 | He has memorialised their encounter and its temporary effect upon his deeper self , the depths of feeling he had for her , in his significantly titled poem ‘ Destiny ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 24 | Oddly enough , these characteristics were almost wholly lacking in his cleverly designed sets , which were , none the less , imaginative and alluring , and still perfectly in keeping with this lyrical production . |
| 25 | And he 's in his seldom seen breeding skin . ’ |
| 26 | There was no need for God to intervene in his superbly designed universe , which was equipped to deal with all contingencies . |
| 27 | To expect SARFU to squeeze first-world profits from the new third-world South Africans , when the 1991 World Cup did n't achieve the expected profits — even from first-world venues — would , in my long held view , not only be unrealistic but immoral . |
| 28 | The quality of the full product range is assured because Fluka assay every chemical and bio-chemical , and subject all products to exacting tests in their well equipped quality control laboratories . |
| 29 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 30 | Women and girls would appear in droves , dressed in their carefully planned outfits , to promenade slowly past the smart Caffè Bizzi , a beautiful shiny place like an Aladdin 's Cave , of a sort that is now almost extinct in Italy . |