Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such change arose because , although in general it was the better houses that were sold , some tenants bought houses , without survey , that were in poor structural condition ( especially prefabricated buildings ) and were soon experiencing difficulties paying for repairs and maintenance . |
| 2 | Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 . |
| 3 | The quote from Hammond & Waterton suggests that in 1890 it was thought that a barrister umpire could preside over a valuation : to restate the proposition in modern terms , a lawyer can act as an expert . |
| 4 | The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age . |
| 5 | The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow . |
| 6 | The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks . |
| 7 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 8 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 10 | The Home Office Research Unit found that in 1973 it was 25 per cent. , as compared with 81 per cent . |
| 11 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 12 | Its great expectations were such that in 1975 it produced what it called a ‘ Reference Programme ’ of future development based on a dramatic growth in electricity demand . |
| 13 | Thereafter it was used as a running-shed , serving the Promenade , Fleetwood and Marton routes in turn , until in 1945 it became a store for surplus trams . |
| 14 | Over the same period , real wages fell by 18.5 per cent ( in 1970 it was estimated by DEPLAN , the government planning agency , that there was 25 per cent excess capacity in the economy ) , the government deficit increased rapidly until in 1973 it was greater than the revenue of the government , the rate of growth of fixed investment fell dramatically and the balance of payments was in deficit , on both currant and capital account , throughout the whole period . |
| 15 | The matter dragged on , year after year , until in 1857 it was decided that an extra master should be appointed , so that there could be two classes , one learning French and the other German , running at the same time for one hour , and then changing over . |
| 16 | If the DEA was unable to organise rapid growth in conjunction with a stable balance of payments , then one of the objectives had to give , and in 1966 it was the growth target which was abandoned . |
| 17 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 18 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 19 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 20 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 21 | In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 . |
| 22 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 23 | The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order . |
| 24 | The idea of ‘ revolution ’ can set the pulses racing , for a time at least , and in 1980 it was invoked by Catherine Belsey : ‘ Only by closing the doors of the English department against theoretical challenges from outside can we continue to ignore the ‘ Copernican' ’ revolution which is currently taking place , and which is radically undermining traditional ways of perceiving both the world and the text . ’ |
| 25 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 26 | In 1984 , £6 million was spent converting it to diesel and in 1987 it was refurbished at a cost of £22 million . |
| 27 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 28 | Between 1971 and 1980 local authority and new town completions averaged 143,000 dwellings a year , but in 1981 the figure plummeted to 68,000 and in 1987 it reached an all-time low of 22,000 . |
| 29 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 30 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |