Example sentences of "in [pron] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mean colonic transit time was 35.4 ( 4.7 ) hours in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , being much shorter ( p<0.02 ) than in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in whom it averaged 53.8 ( 5.5 ) hours .
2 To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception .
3 I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’
4 Like the Middle East Commandos from which the bulk of the unit originated , the SBS never quite obtained the recognition it deserved , being little known even within the theatre in which it spent most of the war .
5 We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express .
6 We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express .
7 The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group .
8 The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund .
9 The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) .
10 After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking .
11 Yet in August and September 1858 , when on holiday in Germany , Rostovtsev wrote the tsar four letters in which it became apparent that he had changed his ground .
12 The Labour party achieved an overall majority in five elections , on two occasions by slim margins , and formed the government following the February 1974 election , in which it had more seats than any other party but not an absolute majority ( See Table 5.4 ) .
13 The second is that there may be slightly different circumstances in which it remains true , but a no longer believes it .
14 The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals .
15 For instance , the conditions in which it becomes possible for an animal to perform an act that would bring it food become rewarding themselves .
16 Its practitioners operate in a world constrained by a belief in the immediate implementation of the legal precept , in which it becomes axiomatic that even the academic/criminologist will remain outside the world of praxis .
17 Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days .
18 It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young .
19 Much of the rest of his life was dedicated to opposing British financial policy and the monetary straitjacket in which it placed British industry .
20 They are mosaics , a cluster of separate components , each with its own lens of crystalline calcite orientated in the precise position in which it transmits light most efficiently .
21 In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs .
22 One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups .
23 It demonstrates the principle that the EEC 's worst-managed and least successful policies are those in which it has unrestrained jurisdiction .
24 In the context of the generally unremarkable figures for his average length of turn ( with the exception of scene five there are no scenes in which it exceeds 14.7 ) , these large turns stand out sharply .
25 Each government department and public body will publish " a statement of the principle areas in which it holds unrestricted environmental information " .
26 Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES .
27 Earlier this year the NRPB published a ‘ complete description of the radiological impact of the fire ’ in which it considered 41 isotopes released in the fire .
28 Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries .
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