Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include substantive conclusions about what would be different in philosophy if it were influenced by feminine rather than by masculine assumptions . |
| 2 | Not to be confused with vervain , also verbena ( V. officinalis ) , lemon verbena is quite different in appearance since it is a shrub and not a herbaceous plant from South America , specifically Chile . |
| 3 | However , the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory . |
| 4 | This was partly because it is easier to train a bird to come back to you if it 's hungry — not starving , you understand , but a bit peckish and more interested in food than it might otherwise be . |
| 5 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 6 | The document is especially interesting in retrospect because it can be seen to be a fairly crude thought about the need to escape the deadening effects of 16+ examining . |
| 7 | The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics . |
| 8 | At 12 o'clock we have hot food cooked over the stove to the sound of Brush 's vocals , the two sizzling in harmony until it is finally cooked from both sides . |
| 9 | This bridge ( Cowley Bridge ) , built by James Green , the county surveyor , in 1813–14 , is so fine in design that it has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument . |
| 10 | This explanation was primarily glacio-eustatic in nature because it depended upon sea level fluctuation in relation to the amount of water stored in the ice-caps during glacial and interglacial phases . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government . |
| 12 | The very stability which so commended itself to farmers — any transient compound is less useful in agriculture unless it can be applied directly to the pest — was the factor which so alarmed ecologists . |
| 13 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 14 | ‘ Objectivity ’ , then , is more possible in English because it has a highly developed form of writing . |
| 15 | The Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 was sound in principle , but so narrow in application that it has rarely if ever been tested in the courts . |
| 16 | [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors . |
| 17 | Bank managers are not exactly well-versed in pragmatism when it comes to making judgments on business proposals from small companies . |
| 18 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 19 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 20 | It will stand you in good stead throughout your life because effective note-taking is as important in business as it is to study . |
| 21 | He was hanging upside down , and he was so soaked in blood that it was a few more seconds before I discovered the severed artery was somewhere in his left leg . |
| 22 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 23 | The course should be general in nature if it is to comply with UKCC criteria , but it may have an additional specialist component aimed at preparing nurses for work in different clinical settings . |
| 24 | While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous . |
| 25 | The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity . |
| 26 | It is well known , for instance , that pronominalization is rare in Japanese and it is therefore unlikely to play a significant role in signalling givenness . |
| 27 | It also seems to be so wide in scope that it could encompass almost anything . |
| 28 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 29 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 30 | Bigger brother Waterstones ( although only marginally so — 8,400 sq ft , 25 full time , 16 full time equivalents ) also opens on seven days a week , and occupies the ground floor and basement of one of Glasgow 's most attractive buildings , so Venetian in character that it is known as the Ca' d'Oro . |