Example sentences of "[conj] it be in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these people are migrants from the lowlands , where most of the country 's agriculture is located , who have little money to invest to ensure success in the longer term and who lack security of tenure to make farming the heritage enterprise that it is in many nations . |
| 2 | Another reason for wanting to retain the inclusion of a relatively poor inner-city area was that it is in such areas that the problems of service provision to dementia sufferers are often at their most acute . |
| 3 | I will point out , though , that it is in some ways a very conservative proposal , inviting a return to origins . |
| 4 | So it is worth recalling at the outset of this discussion that it is in these senses that the female cross-dresser of the early seventeenth century could be described as an ‘ invert ’ or ‘ pervert ’ , and hardly at all in the sense of those words as coined and popularized by the nineteenth-century sexologists and , later , psychoanalysis . |
| 5 | Thus we come to a more general and tenable version of dualism : that every writer necessarily makes choices of expression , and that it is in these choices , in his " way of putting things " , that style resides . |
| 6 | Given the apparent sexist bias of much humanities and social science teaching , it seems odd that it is in these subjects that women are numerous ; it is the absence of women in physical science and engineering that has generally been regarded as a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 7 | Sullivan ) , we have to acknowledge that it was in many ways an attractive society , and an admirable one . |
| 8 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |
| 9 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 10 | This preliminary chat should be much higher on the agenda than it is in many salons . ’ |
| 11 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 12 | It 's er and it is in many ways the kernel of the of the concept . |
| 13 | The climatic conditions of Scotland and parts of Cumbria and Northumbria are particularly suitable for the production of healthy high quality seed potatoes required for the following year 's crop and it is in these areas that most of the seed potatoes are grown . |
| 14 | And it is in these areas that we are going to concentrate . |
| 15 | But in some cases the group 's behaviour will be disrupted by the presence of a known researcher , and it is in these instances that covert research is conducted . |
| 16 | This view depends , of course , on seeing the reader , not as a unique individual , a private being , but as a vessel or meeting point for a variety of cultural codes and literary conventions , and it is in these terms and not those of affective experience that reading and readers would have to be discussed : the reader qua reader is as much the product of a ‘ grammar ’ ( however loosely this notion may now be conceived ) as was the text in classical structuralism . |
| 17 | It is not uncommon to find households with two or more Rottweilers and it is in these situations , that sometimes , the green-eyed monster can appear . |
| 18 | All major technical handbooks are stocked and it is in these compilations of miscellaneous information in handy form that the answer will be found . |
| 19 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 20 | And it was in these places that Nazarean tradition was to continue . |
| 21 | But it is in many ways an odd , unbalanced discography , one that would have puzzled Byrd himself , and which puzzles those who know the true length and breadth of Byrd 's achievement . |
| 22 | It is one thing to attack the Soviet system or Third World countries not yet under the sway of Western democracies ( and business ) , but it is in these countries that the gospel is spreading like wildfire . |
| 23 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |
| 24 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 25 | ISS focused on the fourth and fifth years because it is in these years that pupils tend to narrow their curriculum , as schools frequently have a very small core with large option schemes , with the result that some pupils pursue a curriculum that is neither broad nor balanced . |
| 26 | Because it was in those days simply the most difficult , challenging and interesting circuit around . |
| 27 | This tendency is itself in need of sociological analysis , since it is in some respects clearly related to the social character of certain modem institutions , most obviously in advertising and market research but also in audience research and in political opinion polling . |
| 28 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 29 | We can infer from the available evidence , unsatisfactory though it is in many respects , that , as had been the case in 1939 , the attempt on Hitler 's life polarized sentiments . |
| 30 | One did not get the same feeling opening tins of cat food , admirable though it was in many ways . |