Example sentences of "in it [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 In it one can trace the origin and development of social , political , and philosophical ideas , as well as of taste , fashion , and outlook .
2 It is a world of twilight and in it something grows … that creature which is the inner you …
3 Whatever its original purpose may have been , as with any ruin , we must hack from it the thick vegetation which threatens to cut it off from us : to find in it something of significance for ourselves .
4 The still joy of the mind in its state of non thought has in it something beyond the rational and it defies explanation .
5 Vision has in it something of the ‘ himma ’ of the sufis .
6 Instead , it is hospitalised in a museum , to be visited by the public , who pretend to relate to the work as if they recognised in it something of eternal value .
7 The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them .
8 It presupposes that it is possible , in modern circumstances , using modern tools and resources , to find a way whereby men and women can become more fully integrated into their social environment and find in it something deeply expressive of their own personality and aspirations .
9 She kissed her husband dutifully , and for a moment Riven saw her and Ratagan exchange a look which had in it something of despair .
10 His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music .
11 Camb had searched that handbag and found in it nothing but make-up and a little money .
12 What was in it somebody asks you .
13 Record in it anything you fancy : a new word , a new way of describing a colour , a particular action you saw performed which you 'd like to describe in detail while it 's fresh .
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