Example sentences of "in [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her father , in whom a sense of humour is not a very apparent virtue , remained reserved . |
| 2 | Further advances in the knowledge of prognostic factors should help to identify subgroups of ( asymptomatic ) patients with a more prolonged clinical course , in whom a wait and see policy seems adequate . |
| 3 | Records were kept from 1980 of all patients , referred to one physician , with iron deficiency anaemia , in whom a cause was not established after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |
| 4 | Both endobiliary biopsy and endobiliary fine needle aspiration cytology are likely to establish a role in the investigation of patients in whom a tissue diagnosis is elusive by standard methods . |
| 5 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 6 | The yield in younger patients is likely to be very low and the development of alternative strategies to select those in whom a barium enema or total colonoscopy should be performed would be helpful . |
| 7 | The development of cholangitis as a late complication occurred only in patients in whom a sphincterotomy was not carried out and this might be considered a prerequisite in all patients in whom an endoprosthesis is inserted as long term therapy . |
| 8 | A person in whom a diagnosis of AIDS has been made continues to have an immune deficiency , so that the same or other manifestations of AIDS can occur later . |
| 9 | When we excluded patients in whom a diagnosis of suffocation had been considered before referral 16 out of 68 ( 24% ) patients were found to be suffering abuse . |
| 10 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 11 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 12 | In any case , choral singers tend to apply themselves more strongly when divided parts create in them a sense of greater responsibility and individuality . |
| 13 | A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land . |
| 14 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 15 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 16 | The more conservative dons viewed these ideas and their proponents with alarm , seeing in them a threat to the traditional values and methods of literary scholarship . |
| 17 | There is in them a warmth that melts the icicle . |
| 18 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 19 | He never patronized the disabled but restored in them a zest for life and work . |
| 20 | Mr Baranczak finds in them a galaxy of individualists , an anti-universe to the communist state . |
| 21 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 22 | While the Psalmi Davidis penitentiales were commissioned by Albrecht V , their textual expressiveness of the kind we have already noticed in Rore ( p. 2– ) is so intense that one is tempted to hear in them a note of personal anguish . |
| 23 | New moralists argued that contemporary society denied women ‘ those varied love-makings from the other sex ’ , which would arouse in them a desire to fill life ‘ with a space of joy and delight ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ He instilled in me a sense of pride in my country , the need to preserve our heritage and culture . |
| 25 | The constant view of so much hair excited in me a love of nature , wild nature , that has never waned . |
| 26 | The beautiful blue groundwash is so sensuously placid and dreamlike ( almost aquatic ) , and the simple but elegant forms and lines animate the scene , producing in me a state of quiet limbo . |
| 27 | Create in me a dean heart O God , and put a new and right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence , and take not thy Holy Spirit from me . |
| 28 | Intended to induce a feeling of nostalgia in the shopper ( and a subsequent loosening of their purse ) it only induces in me a feeling of nausea . |
| 29 | The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude . |
| 30 | There was a game she played with me when I was a very little girl which roused in me a discomfort I identify now as irritation . |