Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 2 | Polio had been almost eradicated in Brazil , but by 1986 the country had the highest incidence of polio in Latin America because it had to cut back spending on immunization . |
| 3 | A portrait of Elena Ceauşescu graced the Polytechnic 's building in Central London until it disappeared during the Christmas vacation at the end of 1989 . |
| 4 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 5 | Sauvignon , that quintessential crisp , dry white variety , is popular in fashion-led Australia where it produces clean dry whites — but with a difference . |
| 6 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 7 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 8 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |