Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun sg] [subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Objectivity ’ , then , is more possible in English because it has a highly developed form of writing . |
| 13 | [ 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 . |
| 14 | Bank managers are not exactly well-versed in pragmatism when it comes to making judgments on business proposals from small companies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 17 | It will stand you in good stead throughout your life because effective note-taking is as important in business as it is to study . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And more significantly , as certain in life as it was in art . |
| 24 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 25 | Pragmatism might be less radical in practice than it appears to be in theory . |
| 26 | The method of arriving at cost by applying the latest purchase price to the total number of units in stock is unacceptable in principle because it is not necessarily the same as actual cost and in times of rising prices , will result in the taking of a profit which has not been realised . |
| 27 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 28 | If you are melting bars of chocolate which will then reset , for example a chocolate biscuit cake , add an egg yolk to prevent the chocolate becoming cloudy and dull in appearance when it resets . |