Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the modern material age it is hard to comprehend someone regularly and readily giving up such a vast sum to pursue expensive , unpaid projects , but for Barney it 's important . |
| 2 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 3 | As a strategy in the general learning situation it can be particularly damaging , and this is also true of language learning . |
| 4 | Even when private landownership spread in the latter Tokugawa era it did so under this premise . |
| 5 | An undertaking may be in a dominant position if in the relevant product market it is in a position where , as a result of its economic strength , it is able to hinder effective competition by behaving to an appreciable extent independently of its competitors without taking into account customer and consumer demands . |
| 6 | Note to Lecturers — In the above review question it is helpful for students to be able to relate these concepts of relevance to real-life situations . |
| 7 | In the 1748 peace settlement it was returned in exchange for Louisbourg , but nobody in India had any doubt that the French had demonstrated their superiority . |
| 8 | In Japan , for example , breast cancer mortality in the 65–74 age group is 14 per cent of that in Britain , while in the 35–44 age group it is 36 per cent . |
| 9 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 10 | Thus , in a few moths ( Erannis defoliaria , etc. ) , the females alone are apterous , while in the Chalcid genus Blastophaga it is the male which has lost the wings . |
| 11 | In the New Testament period it was obviously an embarrassment . |
| 12 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 13 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 14 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 15 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 16 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 17 | In the nine months period it is hoped Ross will break even and the market is predicting the company will move into profit in 1990 . |
| 18 | After all , every creature is entitled to some form of recreation and though Shep 's hobby could result in the occasional heart failure it was , after all , his thing and part of him . |
| 19 | In the Scottish rape case it was the personal action of the minister that caused indignation . |
| 20 | After 20 years working in the Social Work Department it will be hard for Jack to leave a job that has been often exhausting and demanding , but never short of interest and challenge and which he has really enjoyed doing . |
| 21 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 22 | Even if IBM has a relatively weak market share in the burgeoning software business it is still very comfortably number one ; and while some of the Japanese giants and European champions occupy high positions in the software league , the huge array of US software insurgents ( led by such companies as Lotus , Microsoft and Sun ) has no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 23 | In this class of games each type of player A prefers to masquerade as a z = 0 type , but in the full information game it selects a negative action , . |
| 24 | For men in the 16-19 age group it was just 1.9 per cent , while for the 60-64 age group it was 10.2 per cent . |
| 25 | In the Foreign Office case it was felt that the responsible ministers should have been more alert to the possibility of aggression by Argentina . |
| 26 | Thus , in the National Health Service it may well be the consultants that always seem to get their own way and the nurses rarely so . |
| 27 | In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management . |
| 28 | In the low grade/mixed grade group the mean age was 58 ( 13 ) years ( range 24 to 75 ) and in the high grade group it was 58 ( 15 ) years ( range 23 to 79 ) . |
| 29 | In the high grade group it is common to find a palpable mass , hepatomegaly or splenomegaly , and palpable lymphadenopathy . |
| 30 | Although this is in general a constituent feature of social realism , in the racial problem film it is a particularly potent device for a disavowal of racial guilt and responsibility . |