Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the scale , although in many cases it is open to private individuals to prosecute for breach of the criminal law , it is generally thought , for various reasons , that usually it is best for public prosecutors to take such action . |
| 2 | Its base unit is the kilogram although in chemical calculations it is often more convenient to use grams . |
| 3 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 4 | Although in three cases it was recognised that the operation was technically unsatisfactory and early rebleeding was encountered in each case , in the rest there appeared to be no obvious explanation for these surgical failures . |
| 5 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 6 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |
| 7 | The radial shields are usually covered although in some specimens it is possible to see the outline of distal end . |
| 8 | In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment . |
| 9 | Although in some hospitals it 's as high as one in five . |
| 10 | Although in some ways it 's even more agreeable when they 're not , because then Howard does his famous imitation of Freddie — Freddie being praised , Freddie being jealous , Freddie doing his best to unbend enough to be wrathful . |
| 11 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 12 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 13 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 14 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 15 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 16 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 17 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 18 | Jones ( 1931 ) implies that it can , but experimental work ( e.g. O'Connor and Tooley ( 1964 ) ) suggests that in many cases it is not perceptible unless a speaker is deliberately trying to avoid ambiguity . |
| 19 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |
| 20 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 21 | However , the Oxford Study showed that in many cases it was not a factor , since very little use was made of this procedure , despite its obvious advantages to the defendant . |
| 22 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 23 | And having done it , and having experienced aspects of being a solo artist , I know that in many ways it 's a lot easier being a solo artist ! |
| 24 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 25 | Recent research has shown that in such cases it is more likely that the animals and humans had been eaten by other predators , such as leopards an hyenas . |
| 26 | The fact seems to be that in such cases it is inappropriate to think in terms of discrete variation . |
| 27 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 28 | It might be argued that in such situations it is the only course of action open to a man and that he would be at fault if he acted differently . |
| 29 | This means that in rough air it is only safe to pull up hard if the speed is below the maximum launch speed . |
| 30 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |