Example sentences of "in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , he had a correspondent in his brother Theo in whom he could confide and with whom he could explore ideas about art ; the letters are thus an invaluable source of interpretation . |
| 2 | Stewart is a traveller , one of the people of the road — among them , tinkers , pipers and folk-singers — in whom an oral culture has survived to the present day . |
| 3 | in whom are the voices , keeping hand on the reins |
| 4 | Comparing him to Demosthenes , in whom oratory compensated for a speech impediment , Storr juxtaposes two key scenes : young Winston being pelted with cricket balls and hiding behind a tree , and a slightly older Winston terrifying his friends ( and all but killing himself ) by jumping 30 ft off a bridge . |
| 5 | Superficially , Mr Akhtar 's compromise has appeal in a liberal/secular society because it is designed to protect human sensitivities which we all recognise , rather than to appease a deity in whom relatively few believe . |
| 6 | The ‘ good ’ policemen and women know their area : the sites of trouble and danger , as Holdaway describes them ( 1983 : 39–42 ) , which need special attention , the places to avoid without having further back-up , the places where events and incidents have occurred in the past , the people on whom to focus attention , such as the ‘ troublesome families ’ in whom crime historically runs or the VIPs in the area who get special protective care . |
| 7 | Again , they operate with similar typifications of who constitute the troublesome clients , based partly on experience but also heavily influenced by stereotypes of the educationally subnormal , one-parent families , families in whom historically crime runs , and so on . |
| 8 | Interestingly , in those subjects living for fairly long periods in isolation , in whom the pattern of sleep and activity becomes irregular ( see Chapter 2 ) , meals too become erratic in their numbers and composition . |
| 9 | But her father , in whom a sense of humour is not a very apparent virtue , remained reserved . |
| 10 | Our medieval law of guardianship was concerned mainly with infants who were heirs of land ; and though the ‘ guardian in socage ’ — the nearest relation of the infant to whom the infant 's land can not descend — has not been abolished , the practice of settlement and of appointing trustees in whom the land , or at least powers over it , are vested , renders rare the occasions on which the very limited powers of such or any kind of guardians can be exercised over an infant 's land . |
| 11 | This officer may be appointed trustee under any will or settlement , either as a mere ‘ custodian ’ trustee , in whom the ownership of the trust property is vested , leaving the active duties to other trustees ; or as an ordinary trustee , with powers and duties of management . |
| 12 | All his energy was concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other , to get out to the Lock before Marie provoked Simon into uncoiling his other self , the one hidden behind the attentive , polite , charming Simon in whom Marie had invested so much of her trust and hope for the future . |
| 13 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 14 | For Hans Frank , the Führer had been ‘ a sort of superman ’ in whom he had believed ‘ without reservation ’ and whom he regarded as being right ‘ in all decisive matters ’ . |
| 15 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 16 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 17 | One such resided in the existence of a story-teller : an individual in whom were preserved the history of the village , the life of the community and the lore and legends of the surrounding land and sea . |
| 18 | In the process , though this biography is refreshingly free of anti-male bias , it offers a portrait of men in whom high notions of liberty and truth were riddled with feckless egoism . |
| 19 | The second quotation affirms the presence of God , in whom we live and move and have our being — emphasis upon the closeness of God akin to the Islamic passage about God being nearer to us than our neck-veins . |
| 20 | my God , my rock , in whom I take refuge , |
| 21 | Naturalism was a psychological penetration of the motives of the bourgeois , in whom we saw our mortal enemy , and psychological penetration , despite all efforts at resistance , brings an identification with the various precepts of bourgeois morality … |
| 22 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 23 | But anyway , saying to Father that you , who are the apple of his eye , and in whom he considers he 's bred a lady , telling him that you hope to marry one of the Feltons , the quay Feltons . |
| 24 | The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow . |
| 25 | While a conviction for dishonesty will not invariably justify dismissal , it is more likely to do so in the case of a senior executive in whom a high level of trust is invested . |
| 26 | Of many friends , whom I love and esteem , my head & heart have ever chosen you as the Friend — as the one being , in whom is involved the full & whole meaning of that sacred Title — God love you , my dear Poole ! and your faithful & most affectionate S T Coleridge |
| 27 | Those not receiving insulin therapy had a greater prevalence ( 45.6 per cent ) than those on insulin ( 30.7 per cent ) ( P<0.001 ) , although this relationship was not found in blacks in whom the prevalence of hypertension was similar regardless of the type of diabetic therapy . |
| 28 | It has been observed that sodium restriction tends to be more beneficial in hypertensives who have low plasma renin activity and in whom the aldosterone response to lowering dietary sodium is poor ( Vaughan et al , 1973 ) . |
| 29 | High unrefined carbohydrate , high-fibre , low-fat and low-sodium diets may be the initial treatment of the diabetic with mild hypertension in whom thiazide diuretic agents are relatively contraindicated . |
| 30 | Cardioselective β-blocking drugs appear the drugs of choice in the hypertensive diabetic in whom dietary therapy has failed or who has more severe hypertension , although there may be an important role for the calcium antagonists . |