Example sentences of "in it which " in BNC.
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| 1 | He taught her the words of the Angelus , the Hail Mary ; though he said that he could not quite use all the words himself literally , but he respected those who could , and he did not think there was anything in it which made Mary take the place of her Son . |
| 2 | The book is in great part a ‘ presentation ’ of Morgan 's ‘ Ancient Society ’ , but as Engels points out there is much in it which goes beyond Morgan , in terms both of documentation and interpretation . |
| 3 | However there is an error in it which should be corrected . |
| 4 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 5 | There was a great deal about Christopher in it which was hard for Clarissa . |
| 6 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 7 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 8 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 9 | He knew the answers to his questions very well ; all too many men were relegated to the position of drone — and they resented it ; they showed their resentment all too often by despising women and taking the attitude that such inept creatures should be allowed to play while men ran the world and did anything in it which was worth doing . |
| 10 | British Airways examine every official accident report that is published by a national accident investigation authority to see whether there are any features in it which might lead to an improvement in the safety of their own operation . |
| 11 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 12 | This is antipodal to the empirically visible history in which the time of all histories is the simple time of continuity and in which the ‘ content ’ is the vacuity of events that occur in it which one later tries to determine with dividing procedures in order to ‘ periodise ’ that continuity . |
| 13 | ‘ It is easy ’ , he says , ‘ in retrospect to see this spirit as naive or ‘ utopian ’ but there is nothing in it which entitles us to regard it with academic superiority . ’ |
| 14 | Include something in it which no one else is expecting . |
| 15 | If the retina is a square array with n photocells along each edge , then there are n(n-1)/2 pairs in it which can be the ends of a line . |
| 16 | Now that his face had regained its shape she saw a seriousness in it which implied a steadiness she liked . |
| 17 | And a lot of dust in it which was very very unhealthy . |
| 18 | And his voice had a note of self-mockery in it which surprised her . |
| 19 | He told it , exactly as he had seen it , not concealing that there were curious and doubtful points in it which even witnessing could not make plain . |
| 20 | Scotland has recently produced a code of conduct for mountain bikers and there are one or two phrases in it which might be useful for your Code : |
| 21 | The basic idea is extended , however , to keep track of a constantly changing picture and to detect those elements in it which do not change . |
| 22 | Even though Pt II of SGA 1979 ( ss2-15 ) is entitled " Formation of the Contract " , there is nothing in it which regulates the actual formation of the contract of sale of goods . |
| 23 | There is nothing in it which precludes town centre type uses . |
| 24 | Our basic aim is to have a whole person benefits structure whereby one 's got one benefit with various elements in it which take account of the individuals needs . |