Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon .
2 In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base .
3 Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts .
4 On some occasions , however , contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item .
5 Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert .
6 First , theory needs to be explicit about whether it is dealing with symmetrical or asymmetrical , reversible or irreversible relationships .
7 This exhibition will be exceptional in that it will be a nearly complete overview of his output .
8 Again the leaflet will be helpful in that it is the Regional Assessor who determines the band for the property .
9 There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts .
10 In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts .
11 That support will undoubtedly be forthcoming for while it is Frank Holden today , who knows , into the future , who will be put into a similar predicament if the Bank is allowed to get away with its present unreasonable stance .
12 In the film , one of them , Dr Tony Kallend , appeared to explain that acid rain was nothing to be worried about as it was only as acid as Coca Cola .
13 Thus power in modern capitalism might be more fractionated and pluralist than in the past — it might also be based on non-class political divisions — but in practice the use that was made of the state and its scope of manoeuvre would be conditional on whether it threatened capitalism as a system .
14 The the erm situation for Lutterworth er Magna Park however I I am familiar with and it certainly preceded section fifty four A and erm in in there were two phases .
15 Eventually , the boys decide to start a fire going , this shows the amount of damage they are capable of but it also shows they can cooperate .
16 I 've been infatuated before and it 's nothing to the pain of this .
17 Similarly , some goods are unaccounted for and it may be that you have sales items but are not shown on our list , ( including publications ) .
18 Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet .
19 This means that their relatedness to their organization can be construed as being infantile-like in that it evokes relationships reminiscent of childhood .
20 Yet the advice to surgeons about ways in which transmission of these viruses might be avoided during operative procedures is deficient in that it fails to mention techniques of monitoring any breaches in the integrity of the barrier between the patient and surgeon .
21 Added to this is our awareness that prostate cancer is strange in that it sometimes never progresses . ’
22 The lone ranger rode into the sunset and jumped on his horse ( 7 ) The capital of England is London and the capital of France is Paris The sense of and in ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) seems to be rather different : in ( 4 ) it seems to mean " and then " and thus ( 6 ) is strange in that it is hard to imagine the reverse ordering of the two events .
23 THE Treasury admits its figure of £1 billion income is hypothetical in that it assumes no loss of sales .
24 We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate .
25 The new procedure is simple in that it involves an application form having three parts on the front of it ( the declaration of means being on the back ) , first the information about the applicant and the charge , second a part to be completed by the Sheriff Clerk , and last a part to bc completed by the Local Secretary .
26 Although Landry makes clear that the shoe does not always fit , this sort of approach , as suggested above , is dangerous in that it shapes what a scholar is willing to see .
27 So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ?
28 Although the landscape that the poet , the artist and the scientist see is similar in that it is beyond the senses , the way each one of them views , lives and works in them is different .
29 Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways .
30 Their anthology , like Grigson 's , is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration .
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