Example sentences of "in his study [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time .
2 It was in this context , and in almost no other , that Egyptian practice favoured the use of trusts : for Kreller , in his study of the law of the papyri , notes that with the exception of trust clauses there are very few instances of trusts in the papyri at all .
3 Mikos , In his study of the League of Nations ' actions in Danzig , attempted to apportion blame by counting up the number of important decisions made by the various High Commissioners .
4 He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity .
5 Charles Booth , in his study of the poor , provides one of the earliest justifications for this kind of research :
6 Corrigan felt it was important , in his study of the boys in an urban secondary school , to create a role for himself which was not threatening to them :
7 Blauner ( 1964 ) , in his study of the experiences of different types of factory worker , brought together empirical evidence from several sources .
8 This is graphically expressed by the phrase ‘ intimacy at a distance ’ which was first used by Rosenmayr and Kockeis ( 1963 ) and applied to the British context by Townsend ( 1957 ) , in his study of the family life of old people .
9 In his study of the Women 's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) , Gusfield argued that the movement shifted from assimilative to coercive reform as the old middle class lost ground to upwardly mobile immigrant groups and the new middle classes .
10 In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way .
11 In his study of the problems of implementing the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales , Richards describes the various means that ‘ exist to facilitate county/district co-operation , some of which depend on the 1972 Act and some of which do not ’ ( Richards 1975b:76 ) .
12 This was noted by all manner of commentators in the middle years of the nineteenth century , but it was the banker , journalist , and cautious liberal , Walter Bagehot who provided the authoritative account of the new set-up in his study of The English Constitution published in 1867 .
13 Finer , in his study of The Changing Party System , is not alone in taking the view that it is a " matter of proven fact that governments try to manipulate the economy to improve material conditions in time for the next election " .
14 Thus Pirenne ( 1914 ) , in his study of the development of capitalism , distinguished its various stages in terms of the principal directions of economic activity and the social groups which took the leading role at each stage ; and many historical studies of elites have similarly concentrated attention upon the rise and decline of particular economic groups .
15 Staff are also analysing the extensive body of information gathered by Professor Neville Bennett of the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster in his study of the relationship between teaching styles and pupil performance .
16 Colin Leys does this in his study of the political economy of neo-colonialism in Kenya ( Underdevelopment in Kenya , 1975 ) .
17 In his study of The City of Worcester in the Sixteenth Century ( 1973 ) Dr Alan Dyer has shown that Worcester was far more reliant upon a single trade than most Elizabethan towns , certainly much more so than Leicester .
18 The atmosphere was of an end-of-term party given by a headmaster in his study for the prefects .
19 I should n't have been in his study in the first place .
20 ‘ The audience lasted about 20 minutes and the meeting took place in his study in the Vatican .
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