Example sentences of "it in [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he does it in such a knack |
| 2 | To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfilment to those who are not so fortunate . |
| 3 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 4 | The only certainty is that those nations that are victorious will write what is later termed ‘ history ’ , and will do it in such a way as to justify their actions . |
| 5 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 6 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 7 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 8 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 9 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 10 | In order to gain acceptance for their interpretation of educational problems , researchers , administrators and politicians usually find it necessary to ‘ explain' the problem ; to pinpoint the processes which appear to have led to it in such a way as to make the remedy appear obvious . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it had to regulate it in such a way as to ensure that it would ‘ contain a suitable proportion of matter calculated to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by Service 1 ( i.e. ITV 1 ) ’ . |
| 12 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 13 | " Every question asked requires historical information to be applied : the basic need here is for the candidate to select information which is relevant and to organise it in such a way that it is directed towards answering the specific question asked . " |
| 14 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
| 15 | An employment contract not only individualises what is essentially a class relation , but it individualises it in such a way that it expresses the dominance of the employers and their ideological grasp of the apparent relations between individuals . |
| 16 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 17 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 18 | We 've got ta be careful that in er using that sheet , we do n't do it in such a way as to bully and turn off the customer by saying , by the way , you 'd better make sure you 've done this , this , this , this and this , cos I 'm not doing it . |
| 19 | He 'd put it in such a way that she could n't argue . |
| 20 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
| 21 | Although no specific timescale was announced for the duration of the suspension of co-operation , the Mexican government suggested that it would begin an immediate review of the 1978 extradition treaty with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prohibit further abductions . |
| 22 | But we 'll be building it in such a way as lets us add without making a pig 's breakfast of it . |
| 23 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 24 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 25 | Tithonus asked for immortality but he expresses it in such a way that one feels sad for him . |
| 26 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 27 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 28 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 29 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 30 | Yeah but what are we gon na word it in such a way as they 're not gon na give it ? |