Example sentences of "in [adj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution .
2 In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post .
3 During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients .
4 More significantly , however , the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term .
5 In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems .
6 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
7 In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers .
8 In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) .
9 Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually .
10 In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved .
11 All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home .
12 In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m .
13 In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers .
14 In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 .
15 When the lover 's list was first calculated in 1973 it cost just Pounds 2,818.60 .
16 In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people .
17 Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian .
18 In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan .
19 In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century .
20 In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne .
21 When it reported in 1955 it demanded less permissiveness , not more .
22 Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots .
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