Example sentences of "in [num] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other . |
| 2 | In one case it predicted the existence in interstellar space of a new molecule , HOC , before its physical detection . |
| 3 | In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 4 | In both cases the camouflage is interfering with the natural elements , but in one case it is attacking the whole shape , while in the other it is blotting out the appendages . |
| 5 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 6 | For example , in one case it was held that electrical contractors , as such , had no right to complain that a local authority had not followed proper tendering procedures in letting out a contract for the installation of central heating . |
| 7 | In one case it 's a feeling of vague discontent . |
| 8 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 9 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 10 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 11 | In one minute it was over the target area . |
| 12 | Yeah and the problem is that that because you have to look in one position it means that that the whole thing becomes boring and and your interest starts to drift . |
| 13 | In one sentence it was ‘ The objectives of US policy can only be attained by such French action that will satisfy the nationalist aspirations of the peoples of Indo-China ’ . |
| 14 | In one sense it 's very much like good investigative journalism , ’ explains Malcolm Smart , Head of Research at the IS . |
| 15 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 16 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 17 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 18 | In one sense it is paradoxical to talk of fluidity in tenth- or eleventh-century society . |
| 19 | In one sense it is simply a matter of keeping the value far ahead of the cost . |
| 20 | In one sense it is fragile , for it has the naivety of a child 's game of ‘ let's play house ’ , with a little patch of ground called ‘ home ’ , set out with sticks and stones . |
| 21 | In one sense it was an occupation that Joyce had never abandoned , for he had held classes in public speaking for members of the BUF . |
| 22 | In one sense it is an optimistic phenomenon . |
| 23 | In one sense it is the written version of what they constantly hear — two other people talking perhaps , as in this case , arguing . |
| 24 | In one sense it was . |
| 25 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 26 | In one sense it can be argued that generalizations are of little use . |
| 27 | In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse . |
| 28 | In one sense it 's part of every man 's dream at some time or other — to make for the country and live off and in nature . |
| 29 | In one sense it is a simplification , but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction . |
| 30 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |