Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 2 | Its base unit is the kilogram although in chemical calculations it is often more convenient to use grams . |
| 3 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 4 | Re-writing the partnership agreement will not be a practicable exercise in larger firms , although in certain circumstances it may become necessary , eg if in the course of negotiations with a new partner some hitherto unsuspected inadequacy is revealed . |
| 5 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 6 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 7 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 9 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 10 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 11 | The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament . |
| 12 | This means that in individual families it must have been rather unusual to have grandparents surviving much beyond the infancy of their grandchildren , and thus relationships across three generations would have been comparatively rare . |
| 13 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 14 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 15 | Indeed , there is a case for supposing that in complicated matters it is likely to be the worst one . |
| 16 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 17 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 18 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 19 | Neutralisation has an established legal pedigree and in contemporary conditions it remains a possible political formula to resolve or dampen down certain regional conflicts or to stabilise regional conditions which otherwise could escalate into a superpower confrontation . |
| 20 | When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying in and in one or two other schools , it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing O Level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying , and in other schools it has happened in other subjects . |
| 21 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 22 | A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so . |
| 23 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 24 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 25 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 26 | The obstacles in the path of de-centralising reforms will be as difficult to negotiate in Eastern Europe as in the USSR , and in present conditions it is possible that the patient would not survive the cure . |
| 27 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 28 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 29 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 30 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |