Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 2 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 3 | Indeed there is a sense in which it is positively desirable to act out of self-interest in offering support to a relative , since if the donor also benefits , there is less chance that one party will become over-dependent upon the other . |
| 4 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 5 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 6 | Syntax ( in the broad sense in which it is commonly used today ) is the level of lexico-grammatical form which mediates between the levels of sound and meaning . |
| 7 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 8 | On the other hand opposition , in a Parliament organized strictly on party lines , implies a situation in which it is very hard to secure majority support for your own ideas . |
| 9 | Taxonomy should be a common descriptive backbone to research in plant sciences , but the way in which it is conventionally presented makes such use difficult for the non-taxonomist . |
| 10 | Its continuing fascination for the public owes much to the way in which it is inextricably linked with a real-life ‘ romance ’ : in the summer of 1857 , if not before , Wallis and Meredith 's wife , Mary Ellen , daughter of Thomas Love Peacock [ q.v. ] , became lovers . |
| 11 | With inflation running at 600% , it remains a market in which it is all too easy to get lost . |
| 12 | An example of this may be taken from a context in which it is rather familiar : atmospheric motions on the scale that governs the principal features of the weather . |
| 13 | In Le Planétarium ( 1959 ) , however , although it is possible to attribute some of the sequences to the consciousnesses of the ‘ characters ’ involved , we are presented with conflicting narratives and interpretations of events emanating from insufficiently individuated figures , Her subsequent novels confirm this development towards a narrative discourse in which it is increasingly difficult to situate a perceiving consciousness . |