Example sentences of "in [adj] it " in BNC.

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1 What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble .
2 For the Railway Jubilee in 1875 it was decided to remove the Fountain altogether , and South Park became its home where it stands today .
3 Scott was so successful in styling the building in fine brickwork with ‘ jazz-modern ’ fluting ( as John Betjeman called it ) that , when the Battersea ‘ A ’ station was opened in 1934 it was widely acclaimed as a supremely successful modern treatment of a building type that seemed quintessentially twentieth century .
4 In 1934 it was still a struggle — a fridge was bought on hire purchase over two years — and the Professional missed being ‘ laid off ’ only by the Chairman 's casting vote , on the proposal ‘ that the present position of the Club was such he should move on ’ .
5 In 1934 it was shown that pyloric stenosis could be confirmed by barium meal examination , and in 1977 Teele and Smith first described the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis .
6 At the Southport Conference in 1934 it was agreed : That united action with the Communist Party or organisations ancillary or subsidiary thereto without the sanction of the National Executive Committee is incompatible with membership of the Labour Party , and that the N.E.C. seeks full disciplinary powers to deal with any case or cases that may arise .
7 In the next few years all of England 's maritime energies were concentrated on resisting Philip of Spain 's attempt at invasion , and by the time one of Raleigh 's associates was able to visit the colony again in 1590 it had disappeared .
8 In 1929–30 it had been less than 200,000 tons . ’
9 But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
10 In public the couple were all smiles , in private it was a different story .
11 In private it was no better .
12 In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War .
13 If you go around in threes it 's useless .
14 Though no long regularly used as a market place , the Grassmarket received its charter from James III in 1477. it was the scene of the Porteous Riots described in Scott 's Heart of Midlothian , the haunt of the Burke and Hare murderers and the scene of public hangings .
15 But in 1838 it was Malthus 's theodicy of ancient empires , not his political economy of the modern state that bore decisively on Darwin 's biogeography and ecology ( Bowler , 1976 ) .
16 Although the Republic of Nicaragua gained separate independence in 1838 it was subjected to US military intervention in 1912-25 and 1927-33 , after which the country was left in the control of the Somoza family until the overthrow of the right-wing regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle by a popular revolutionary movement , the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional — FSLN ) , in 1979 .
17 When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern .
18 In 1943 it was the flagship of a 35-strong fleet of vessels which braved the U-boat infested waters of the North Sea and Arctic Circle to get supplies through to Russians in Murmansk .
19 In 1948 it was 19,765 and by 1988 , 38,500 — of which 1,286 were female .
20 By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent .
21 In 1970 the actual deficit measured in terms of millions of 1969 escudos was 2,317 , in 1971 it was 8,390 , in 1972 it was 10,010 and in 1973 , 12,348 .
22 In 1971 it was rescued by Rupert Murdoch , who alone was prepared to risk the capital to keep it afloat .
23 In 1971 it did so in respect of public works contracts .
24 When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels .
25 The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives .
26 Squatting is an anabolic exercise in that it promotes growth in all other muscle groups as well as specialising on the legs ,
27 To summarise , the Cuk converter has an apparent advantage over standard Buck topology in that it uses an integrated magnetic structure and can reduce input and output ripple currents to very low levels .
28 I am aware of the extensive experimental research which has focused on ion forms involving Ca++ Na+ etc2 , but what seems to have been missed in this prior research is the appreciation that water forms its own ion form in that it dissociates into hydroxyl and hydronium ions as listed on the table .
29 It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War .
30 The Pioneer is different from a mountain bike in that it has a less rugged frame and thinner wheels and tyres .
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