Example sentences of "in [Wh det] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Private schools ’ has a narrow sense , now slightly archaic , in which it refers to schools run for profit by teacher-entrepreneurs ( a minority , especially at secondary level ) ; in this sense , the term ‘ private schools ’ is opposed to ‘ public schools ’ , which are not profit-making . |
| 2 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 3 | The poem 's language has also advanced from the darkness and dullness in which it began to a more pleasant and brighter world with words like , ‘ white ’ , ‘ light ’ and ‘ elate ’ , bringing forth a totally new mood . |
| 4 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 5 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 6 | Although all this evidence suggests a central role for the IP 3 R , at least in certain cells , there is controversy concerning the way in which it contributes to the initiation and propagation of calcium waves . |
| 7 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 8 | ‘ 2(1) The powers of the Director under this section shall be exercisable , but only for the purposes of an investigation under section 1 above , or , on a request made by the Attorney-General of the Isle of Man , Jersey or Guernsey , under legislation corresponding to that section and having effect in the Island whose Attorney-General makes the request , in any case in which it appears to him that there is good reason to do so for the purpose of investigating the affairs , or any aspect of the affairs , of any person . |
| 9 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 10 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 11 | An infallible belief would be justified but would not derive its justification from any relation in which it stood to other beliefs ; it would not need any support from elsewhere . |
| 12 | In all interpreting it is not only the technical skill of the interpreter which is important but also his attitude to the job and to the particular situation in which it has to be carried out ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) ; also important is his awareness of the different expression of the same meaning in different cultures ( ‘ the sense ’ of the message ; see Seleskovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 14 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 15 | Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for . |
| 16 | Lévi-Strauss is not interested in what it means to be party to a maternal-uncle type of kinship relationship . |
| 17 | The bonus with St Francis is in helping pupils to appreciate a depth in what it means to be a Christian which is so easily today seen at a superficial externalist level . |