Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 2 | At its peak it was perhaps 6000000 times as luminous as the Sun , and this is still true today , though its light is dimmed by intervening nebulosity ; in infra-red it is one of the strongest sources in the sky . |
| 3 | If it 's in brief it 's up |
| 4 | While it can not be compulsory for your child to be involved in Compact it is reasonable to assume that most young people would wish to be involved since Compact supports them in achieving standards of attainment and behaviour that schools are striving to raise . |
| 5 | This will not prevent an equitable interest passing to the buyer but the court will not grant specific performance unless the seller 's lien can be fully protected and until paid in full he is entitled to vote the shares as he thinks will best protect his interest . |
| 6 | In short it is a ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 7 | The vital thing is to make it obvious from the outset that literature is alive , that it is the sublimation of human thought , passion , feeling , that it is concerned with issues which are of universal interest , that in short it is flesh and blood and not stucco ornamentation . |
| 8 | In short it is important to close Windows down correctly . |
| 9 | In short he 's something of a crossover artist ; he clearly feels as comfortable borrowing from the past as he does with a more modern approach . |
| 10 | Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others . |
| 11 | In general he is close to Adam Smith 's 1s 6d ( 7½p ) as the " common price " per day of labour in London in 1776 , although Smith 's 8d ( 3p ) for country labour is a wider differential . |
| 12 | The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow . |
| 13 | In general it is a safe , economic , and effective treatment for nocturnal enuresis ( Houts et al . |
| 14 | In general it is far less complicated to follow the instructions implicitly , just moving the lace carriage in the direction of the straight arrows and knitting the rows where there are curved arrows . |
| 15 | Batch production work is often of this kind and in general it is by no means as unchanging or boring as it might appear to the casual visitor to the factory . |
| 16 | In general it is felt that investigations into specific problems have been more valuable than wide ranging background investigations . |
| 17 | In general it is likely that builders will prefer the additional green field land to the substantive existing provision within the built-up area . |
| 18 | In general it is important for researchers who are seeking a model for their own projects to be aware of the extent to which much innovatory work in the analysis of variable syntax ( such as Sankoff 's ) is computer-aided . |
| 19 | While one can see that a certain number of strategies might be conceived at corporate level before reference to the individual businesses , in general it is very difficult to see how this can be done at corporate headquarters unless the central authority has a careful analysis of the attractiveness and competitive strengths of the major SBUs . |
| 20 | Do n't expect a sales person to do the job of analysing your requirements because in general it is just too difficult a task . |
| 21 | explained : ‘ In general it is down to having good management — knowing how to push people and giving them a clear context to work within . |
| 22 | In general it is expected that the engineer shall be fair and reasonable in the way he or she administers the contract . |
| 23 | In general it is not sufficient to inspect only the results of tests . |
| 24 | Phillips 's omission of a price expectations term from his original study may have been warranted in practice owing to the low rates of inflation which were experienced from the Great War onwards ; but when it comes to analyzing inflationary processes in general it is invalid . |
| 25 | In general it 's all delicious . |
| 26 | Not in life in general it 's not , no . ’ |
| 27 | Even if they do slip the odd razor blade into their slices of apple pie , in general it 's a view of life that 's , well , kinda pretty neat . |
| 28 | Erm so basically it 's not just er a threat to the the actual market in general it 's an even more acute threat to individual places within that market . |
| 29 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 30 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |