Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 ICI 's catalysts are used extensively in the production of ammonia , hydrogen and methanol , although it is developing markets in refining petrochemicals and organic synthesis .
2 Newspaper , difficult one , generally , but we 're lucky in that we 've got a place down in Exmouth that shred this all up for animal bedding , and they 'll take that , and again we 'll get recycling credits , so although it 's low value in terms of the actual material , it attracts this big recycling credit so so a subsidized market , if you like .
3 For although it is clear that /ε/; raising is diffusing on a much broader social front than /a/ backing , the generalization still seems to hold true that it is those persons in the inner city for whom the vowel functions less clearly as a network marker who are the principal innovators in their own communities .
4 When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date .
5 And it 's two pound in my village shop .
6 Contradiction : It 's dead and It 's alive stand in a contradictory relation : It 's dead entails and is entailed by It 's not alive ( and It 's alive entails and is entailed by It 's not dead ) .
7 Half an hour later and it 's damn cold in this kitchen .
8 And it 's these finds in the trays are actually real archaeological finds from real sites in York .
9 The N R P B at Chilton has produced the report with the Royal College of Radiologists , and it 's revealed patients in one region , may receive up to twenty times the radiation dose of patients in another region .
10 Babies are born with a sense of fairness , justice , morality , and a great capacity for kindness and forbearance , and it is sheer disappointment in the character and nature of parent and world that changes this eager infant into a murderous teenager .
11 The team members previously worked on developing the software optimising compilers for Elbrus , and it is this technology in particular that SunPro wants to take to the US .
12 Unlike /h/ , however , [ r ] seems to have been lost quite early in a forerunner of the institutional British accent ( RP ) at a time when consciousness of the standard ideology was beginning to develop , and it is this difference in the social evaluation of ( r ) and ( h ) which seems to be the explanation for dominant attitudes to it .
13 Britain 's armed forces were not fully committed to the struggle until after D Day , and it is this gap in time between the turn of fortune and the invasion of Europe that saw the most intense interest in post-war planning and , in particular , full employment policy .
14 Italy had made her lazy , and it was this indolence in herself , in her mind as well as her body , which astonished her .
15 It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall .
16 If it 's long days in the sun , cheer up — the shortest day is past and holiday brochures follow the January sales .
17 In formal debates only one amendment may be before the meeting at any one time , but it is common practice in committees to allow several amendments to be moved , seconded and accepted .
18 The gene that causes CF is carried ( without causing the disorder itself ) by about one in 20 of the white population , but it 's very rate in black and other ethnic groups .
19 The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out .
20 But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now .
21 But it was horrible being in one tiny room .
22 I only took the term up because it was general conversation in the police force .
23 In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets .
24 Even if development is not capital intensive , but relies on labour power , what is emerging in Latin America is a pattern of part-time employment , whether it be seasonal work in rural areas or informal-sector activities in urban .
25 And one where if we 're not prepared to learn from the Europeans , whether it 's integrated transport in cities or whether it 's intercity links or wherever , we 're going to be in a great deal of trouble .
26 But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu .
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