Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization .
2 The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God .
3 Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate .
4 In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear .
5 In professional practice it is the duty of the advocate to call the attention of the court to all decisions that are in any way against the submissions he makes ; but this may not be possible in moot conditions .
6 Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost .
7 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 .
8 Since jealousy has its roots in emotional insecurity it is these feelings , so often experienced but not recognised , that you must try to treat with sympathy and imagination ; remembering that you , one day , may feel just as your mother-in-law does .
9 In each case it is the lack of understanding which constitutes the inauthenticity of either the faith or the doubt .
10 In each case it is elderly people living alone who obtain the most support from the state , and among them men receive slightly more than women .
11 In each case it is the woman and her conduct that the man 's lawyers will try to put on trial .
12 In each case it is submitted that the sentences have to be quashed because there was unreasonable delay in giving the appellant a copy of the committal order , which in each case contained particulars of the facts found as constituting a contempt of court .
13 In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines .
14 Although all the filter networks treated so far in this chapter cause phase shift , in each case it is accompanied by attenuation .
15 In each case it is the revised versions which are to be played in this concert .
16 In agricultural history it is evident that a macro-economic overview is necessarily limited because we have no usable index of agricultural rent over any considerable period .
17 In that sense it is very much a virgin field .
18 In that sense it is , like Dennett 's , a picture-cum-flow-chart view , rather than one in terms of processes .
19 In that sense it is quite a deterministic theory .
20 In 1980–1 , a fairly typical year , the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture for land-drainage schemes , including some urban work , amounted to about £30.5 million , of which £23.7 million was allocated to the water authorities , while the rest went to internal drainage boards and local authorities.2 In that year it is estimated that the water authorities spent around £40 million on capital drainage schemes for agriculture .
21 By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days .
22 In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art .
23 In that work it is Roland and Oliver , friends and paladins , against the Saracens , or a handful of impossibly valiant Christian knights against a whole army of miscreants .
24 In that case it is a basic mistake to reduce US-Soviet relations to the personalities of individuals .
25 In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world .
26 In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will .
27 In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice .
28 In that aim it is abetted both by nature conservation bodies — duped by the MoD 's tendentious Defence and the Environment prospectus of three years ago , into believing that the area 's interests are best served by the public being kept out — and by factions within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , most of them with a military background , who also tug their forelocks to that aim .
29 In that process it is not the style as much as the consistency of those managers which is significant .
30 In that house it is always night .
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