Example sentences of "[pron] it is in " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) .
3 It is no good forcing every kind of ability into one form of education if the result is going to lower the standard which it is in the interests of the country to maintain . ’
4 An additional problem when using alumina in load bearing situations is that its elastic modulus ( 380 GPa ) is significantly higher than that of the cortical bone ( 72.5 GPa ) with which it is in contact .
5 There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact .
6 Support for such a fund goes back to the Evershed Committee in 1953 , which recommended that a fund should be available for actions at first instance and on appeal , certified by the Attorney-General as raising a question of law of exceptional public interest which it is in the public interest to clarify .
7 Each little bit of copper and the zinc with which it is in contact act like a small battery : minute electrical currents are produced , with the water acting as the connection between the copper and zinc to complete the ‘ circuit ’ .
8 We shall find that there is a very good general rule that , while adjectives may qualify verbs or verb phrases as well as nouns , the property which an adjective designates is understood to apply to the entity of that noun phrase with which it is in construction most directly ( but not necessarily immediately , as we see in Chapters 3 to 9 ) .
9 This states that the mass ( m ) of a gas dissolved in a given volume of liquid with which it is in equilibrium is proportional to the pressure ( p ) of the gas at a particular temperature .
10 This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) .
11 He describes the reformation in faith , secured at baptism and by penance , leaving the soul as if on the very brink of a pit from which it has been rescued but into which it is in imminent danger of falling back .
12 On the strength of this case , Lord Denning has argued , extra-judicially , that " if newspapers or television receive or obtain information fairly from a reliable and responsible source , which it is in the public interest that the public should know , then there is a qualified privilege to publish it .
13 Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ .
14 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 …
15 that that it it is in fact something that ought to be shared more and people ought to benefit more from what 's here ?
16 Or is it it is in fact North Radstock is n't it ?
17 It it is in tha the hand-book .
18 Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite .
19 ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly .
20 But in an affluent society the problem of poverty is fundamentally different from what it is in an underdeveloped economy .
21 We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another .
22 We do not yet know what it is in a homoeopathic potency that has a curative action , nor do we know how homoeopathic remedies work in the body any more than we know the mechanisms of action of many of the conventional drugs used in medicine .
23 When Nick and the Bad Seeds take the stage though , the cosiness of most indie pop is shown up for what it is in the harsh light of some feral and shadowy music .
24 The temperature in Tokyo is nowhere near what it is in Florida , ’ he said .
25 Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature .
26 What it is in general for a thing a to have the power to produce b is for it to be true that an individual property or properties of a , together with other things , will constitute a causal circumstance for b .
27 Then , the decisive factor could not fail to become what it is in Ireland : just popularity .
28 So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard .
29 Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being .
30 This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward .
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