Example sentences of "[subord] it be in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , always hotter as a critique of British democracy and working-class participation , than it was in providing a careful analysis of interests and power in British politics . |
| 2 | The volume , at HK$2.12 billion ( £160m ) , was marginally higher than it was in trading on the market on Tuesday , but it did not suggest a rush of sellers . |
| 3 | If it is in awarding themselves points for put-downs of the public then they should give up their jobs , live on welfare , and be rude to their friends . |
| 4 | … you have got to make a verbal , visual contact with every child , even if it 's in passing if they 're busy with their work . |
| 5 | We all need a myth of some kind , whether it 's in living forever , in Communism or thinking you come from Sirius . |
| 6 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 7 | The theme of instrumentality seems to be as important in understanding support in the form of accommodation , as it is in understanding financial support within families . |
| 8 | Here his skill in playing the bill market was often of crucial importance , as it was in providing funds abroad for such purposes as the payment of English ambassadors , the purchases of art treasures for the royal collection , and , above all , the transmission of subsidies for Charles I 's foreign allies . |
| 9 | And it is important to keep as firmly in mind that this is what the reader wants to know , as it was in writing the blueprint detective story to remind oneself constantly that what the reader is looking for is hints towards answering the question " Who did it ? " |
| 10 | With about 60 per cent of its energy requirements supplied by a region racked with religious , ethnic and political conflict , the United States was as helpless in the face of state-sponsored narcotics trafficking as it was in dealing with state-sponsored terrorism . |