Example sentences of "in [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution .
2 In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post .
3 And then Mr then erm dismissed my concerns for affordable supply in that it had all been said before .
4 The inflation was also a good thing in that it produced all the contents of the universe quite literally out of nothing .
5 During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients .
6 More significantly , however , the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term .
7 In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems .
8 In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living .
9 ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . )
10 Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join .
11 In 771 it seemed likely that Desiderius would join forces with Carloman against Charles , but in December of that year , the younger Frankish king died .
12 In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall .
13 In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 .
14 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
15 In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers .
16 The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic .
17 In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ .
18 In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note .
19 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 .
20 In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) .
21 Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually .
22 In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved .
23 All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home .
24 In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m .
25 In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills .
26 In 1981 it launched one of Japan 's most precise assembly robots , capable of inserting objects into 0.5 mm-diameter holes and of performing delicate laser welding .
27 After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital .
28 In 1911 it required that one-third of all boarding-out committees should consist of women , for their assumed superior sensitivity to children 's needs , and that relieving officers should no longer supervise boarded-out children , thus removing such children from direct stigmatizing contact with the official administration of the Poor Law .
29 In Whitehall , Smith was pleased with the progressing organisation built up by Verity , but in 1949 it became clearer that the bottlenecks were not only on site steel but in the inadequate response of the pipework and boiler manufacturers .
30 In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers .
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