Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail .
2 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
3 The first factor is important in that it brings some applications within the database world ( for example , computer aided design , computer aided manufacture , architectural design , software design ( Case ) and office automation ) , previously ill-served by relational databases because of the performance of relational database systems and because the relational model itself is unsuitable For those domains .
4 Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words .
5 In that it has some support from the International Monetary Fund , whose managing director has urged the G7 to come up with at least $5 billion or $6 billion in special funding for Russia this year for such projects , as well as for Russian companies restructuring their operations and for further reform in such key areas as energy .
6 Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions .
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