Example sentences of "[subord] in the [adj] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 2 | Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days . |
| 3 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 4 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 5 | There are culturally determined practices related to eye contact , for example certain aborigines , to be polite , do not look into each other 's eyes as they talk , whereas in the Western world it is polite to maintain eye contact during conversation . |
| 6 | In Japan it will be to the particular company , while in the Arab world it is the family which is the key to social , business and over-arching structures . |
| 7 | Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches . |
| 8 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 9 | While in the fifteenth century it was rare to designate a man by the title ‘ shipowner ’ , this occupation became commoner in the sixteenth ( 100 ) . |
| 10 | And while in the short term it wo n't replace other forms of communication such as fax or telex , in time these will become as relevant to our business as semaphore or the carrier pigeon were hundreds of years ago . |
| 11 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |
| 12 | Every scrap of understanding you can glean about the dynamics of bereavement will , of course , be valuable ; but never try simply to ‘ play it by the book ’ — this or any other , for in the long run it will be the way you use your heart , not your head , that will count most . |
| 13 | It is known that St. Leonard 's Priory had some academic function , for in the fourteenth century it was partly used as a study centre for young monks , possibly preparing them for their degree courses at Oxford . |
| 14 | I am not that man , he thought again , straightening up now , for in the next instant it seemed entirely necessary that he should not hide , should visibly walk to the front door and into his library . |
| 15 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 16 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 17 | A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally , though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit . |
| 18 | As in the middle-class family it is likely that the declining infant mortality and the smaller sizes of family encouraged parents to make an increased emotional investment in each child . |
| 19 | The 1947 Agriculture Act demanded ‘ a stable and efficient industry , capable of providing such part of the nation 's food as in the national interest it is desirable to produce ’ . |