Example sentences of "[coord] in the [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generally accepted view is that , in the short-term effect , the multiplier is 1.2 ; in the medium term , it is 1.4 ; and in the long-term it is 1.7 . |
| 2 | In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled . |
| 3 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 4 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |
| 5 | In 1880 a further Education Act made schooling compulsory for children between five and ten , and in the 1890s it was established that most elementary education should be free . |
| 6 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 7 | British universities can seldom afford the American luxury of Writers on Campus , but the ivy-clad wall can tumble from inwards , and in the 1950s it did . |
| 8 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 9 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 10 | But in the mid-eighties it developed a line of kitchenware going completely over to this at Christmas . |
| 11 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 12 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 13 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 14 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |