Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues . |
| 2 | The only difference between ancient Greek tragedy and modern revolutionary tragedy is that in the former the struggle was against a distant , unknowable , divine power , whereas in the latter the struggle is against an all-too-present social order manufacturing poverty , disease , unemployment and war . |
| 3 | A second assertion of monetarists is that in the absence of government intervention in the economy , there will be an automatic tendency towards the ‘ natural rate of unemployment ’ — that is , ‘ the level of unemployment which has the property that it is consistent with equilibrium in the structure of real wage rates ’ . |
| 4 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 5 | One of the aims of this essay is to tap the full sociological richness of Clark 's and Schorske 's work , both in understanding of what modernism is and in the explanation of modernism via class and bourgeois identity in Paris and Vienna . |
| 6 | A final point to make about the adoption of accruals accounting is that in the USA the Governmental Accounting Standards Board has further developed the idea of a set of accounts which are not purely cash-based but are also not full accruals accounting as best commercial practice would envisage it . |
| 7 | A difficult question is whether in the case of an employee who is not a fiduciary the same principles also apply . |
| 8 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 9 | The only essential dissimilarity is that in the Eastern bloc the economy is socialized and directed towards the common welfare . |
| 10 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 11 | The second difference is that in the colleges advanced instruction is usually timetabled , if not a formal part of the course , whereas in universities and polytechnics it is generally neither of these . |
| 12 | The other difference is that in the James-type account the mind is pictured as being related to the body in a certain manner . |
| 13 | Why these two methods of accounting are controlled so differently is a complex matter , but a factual difference is that in the context of companies depreciation is purely a matter of accounting , whereas for local authorities it is a matter of accounting and finance . |
| 14 | The difference is that in the former case it is the teachers and support staff who use the systems , while in the latter it is the learners . |
| 15 | The danger is that in the minds of many it is a form of veiled anti-Americanism or a form of surrogate nationalism . |
| 16 | The danger is that in the ensuing artificial competition it may not be possible to establish some markets at all , and traders would then be forced to use less efficient over-the-counter markets , which are conceivably harder to regulate and thus more prone to fraud . |
| 17 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests . |
| 18 | Goryushkin 's conclusion is that in the process of peasant immigration and colonization , not only did the incoming millions bring about innovations in agricultural methods , animal husbandry , cottage industry and the social customs of the Siberian peasantry , but they themselves were also deeply influenced by the traditional local practices of the old Siberians . |
| 19 | The old joke is that in the army they once had the message ‘ Send reinforcements we 're going to advance ’ but it became ‘ Send three and fourpence we 're going to a dance . ’ |
| 20 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 21 | An interesting point is that in the three leading models , those of Cournot , Bertrand , and Stackelberg , the NE outcomes are identical to those traditionally derived ; only the reasoning underlying the derivation of those equilibria changes . |
| 22 | One of the important differences between a game and drama is that in the latter the signals between reality and fiction may be less clear . |
| 23 | For a body of mass m the relation between the momentum and velocity four-vectors is as in the classical case . |
| 24 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 25 | The important difference between Keynesian and neo-classical economics is that in the extreme Keynesian model , wages and prices are assumed to be inflexible ( at least in the downward direction ) whereas in the extreme neo-classical model , wages and prices are assumed to be completely flexible . |
| 26 | In fact my real belief is that in the troubles ahead of us connected with labour we are moving very fast in the direction of revolution ; and though you will consider my hope a baseless one I still entertain it — that it is by Tariff Reform that we might , so to speak , get the train at least shifted on to other lines . |
| 27 | Personally my advice is as in the diagram above and the box — though when all is said and done , it 's common sense , and you may know better . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most characteristic British example is that in the civitas capital at Silchester , where it was the second largest building in the town after the forum and was situated close to the south gate . |
| 29 | One of the curiosities of water mills is that in the North , unlike the South of England , the wheels are usually erected inside the buildings . |
| 30 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |