Example sentences of "in [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition , present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 2 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 3 | There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 5 | those apparently naturalised representations of events and situations relating to race , whether ‘ factual ’ or ‘ fictional ’ , which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions . |
| 6 | If there is no particular justification for these categories , and they appear to be somewhat arbitrary , what faith can schools then have in them as a basis for review ? |
| 7 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 8 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 9 | She is not blind to Stead 's faults as a storyteller : indeed she actually revels in them as an indication of Stead 's generosity of vision . |
| 10 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 11 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 12 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 13 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 14 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 15 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 16 | ‘ When putting on shoes they should be checked to make sure no harmful insect has hidden in them during the night . ’ |
| 17 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 18 | It was natural that the sermons should be indignant , but the ferocious exultation in them at the fate of the conspirators is in striking contrast to his usual gentleness . |
| 19 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 20 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 21 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 22 | the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action . |
| 23 | No Claire came out last night she 's fallen over and got a hole in them with a pair of woolly tights . |
| 24 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 25 | For centuries they were ‘ consecrated ’ by the first celebration in them of the eucharist : what made them holy was the use made of them . |
| 26 | Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions . |
| 27 | Well , I 've read them pretty closely and though there 's no date or any positive indication in them of the order in which they were written , there does seem to be a progression of a sort . |
| 28 | In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land . |
| 29 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |