Example sentences of "in [pron] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic . |
| 2 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
| 3 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 4 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
| 5 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
| 6 | The term is now used more commonly in a broad sense in which it connotes a looser grouping of individuals , each exercising power and united by one or more of a number of features such as wealth , social origins or pre-eminence in achievement in a particular field . |
| 7 | The probable evolution of Hurst Castle Spit is shown in Fig. 8.26 , from which it can be seen that , with the wearing back of the coast from A to C , the spit will occupy successively the positions AA' , BB' and CC' , the last being its present position , in which it preserves the recurved ends of former stages . |
| 8 | The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality . |
| 9 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
| 11 | Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) . |
| 12 | Prefabricated fibreglass pools , pool-liners and traditional concrete can all yield a first-class formal water feature , for this aspect of the design merely affects the surface , the shape that the pool takes and , to a lesser extent , the manner in which it adjoins the surrounding garden . |
| 13 | Earlier this year MB Group merged its world-wide packaging interests with the French Carnaud to form CMB in which it has a 25.5 per cent stake . |
| 14 | Despite recognizing the need for theory to explain market-type control mechanisms within real-world firms , this chapter accepts that some use of direct , non-delegated authority is the necessary , defining feature of a firm , and turns to Williamson 's work for an explanation of the circumstances in which it has a comparative advantage over other control mechanisms . |
| 15 | All of these are projects in which the government holds a controlling interest and in which it has a strong commercial partner . |
| 16 | The Occasional ( maybe not so occasional ) case arises in which it has a strong sado-masochistic element . |
| 17 | Thames had long discussed the option of launching a popular entertainment channel on Astra , in which it has a 10 per cent shareholding and two reserve channels . |
| 18 | SHELL , which is due to report its 1992 results later this week , will be forced to write off £131 million through adverse foreign currency dealings involving a Japanese associate company in which it holds a 50 per cent stake . |
| 19 | Large armchairs , with loose covers , looked comfortable , but when I sat in one it had a broken spring . |
| 20 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |