Example sentences of "it is in " in BNC.

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1 It is in fact advisable to name more than one Executor in case one of them dies before you .
2 Of course , none of the work carried out by Amnesty could continue without money and it is in this respect that sections , particularly the larger sections like the British , have a vital role to play .
3 It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline .
4 It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read .
5 An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes .
6 It is in this arena that some of the fiercest intellectual fighting about art is taking place , though the contests range wider than the visual arts to politics and economics .
7 However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos .
8 paradoxically , it is in museums that the market in art is defined , since permanent collections place limits on what is available for collectors to purchase .
9 Understanding is deferred , rather as it is in certain recent theoretical accounts of the way literature works .
10 Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two .
11 Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted .
12 The art that comes of them is one in which imagination takes power , the power to distort and exaggerate , in which difference of person is suspended , in which the experience of time is as it is in dreams .
13 It is the state which properly exercises the use of force in order to maintain social control , whereas it is in civil society — the family , school , work-place , church , and other non-state institutions — that hegemony operates .
14 It is in this way that the Roman catholic bishops of Ireland , as intellectuals organizing the beliefs of catholic nationalists , continue to be aligned to the forces of conservatism within the alliance , forces which in practice do not recognize important protestant civil rights in Ireland .
15 Now , he wrote , it is in a little room in a nondescript Victorian terraced house in a side-street in South London .
16 And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted .
17 We do not take ‘ wrong turnings ’ ; it is in the nature of turnings to be wrong .
18 It is in our interests as designers in this field to ensure that the ‘ pub tradition ’ that we all hold so dear remains a living tradition .
19 But companies are reporting that orders are still down on last year , with no sign from the catering industry that it is in a position to re-equip the dining room .
20 ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh .
21 In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries .
22 At the moment it is in my garden , but I do n't think it is hardy enough to stay there .
23 This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope .
24 It is in these situations that centring skills are most useful .
25 It is in relation to this area of activity that recent moves towards systematic amalgamation , centralization , and mutual aid seem to have been made .
26 possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or …
27 This is a haematoma and if it is in an area where you are likely to receive further knocks , you should withdraw from the competition .
28 It is in his interest to speak against us , to force up rents , not fix them fairly , to give his friends a charter to chop down our forests .
29 It is in its form as a general theory of cognition that the behaviouristic approach is most clearly refutable , but from the general refutation we can refute its application to perception .
30 When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space .
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