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

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1 These two distributions ( of differences in skill between left and right hands ) consist of those individuals in whom the right shift factor biasing the left hemisphere towards subserving speech , and coincidentally favouring greater skill of the right hand , is present ( RS + ) and those in whom it is absent ( RS ) .
2 It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history .
3 We recently reported that the characteristic coeliac like intestinal antibody pattern of intestinal fluid antibodies also occurs in dermatitis herpetiformis patients without enteropathy , a group of patients in whom it is likely that all or most are in fact latent coeliacs .
4 These conclusions are probably most valid for the female Type 2 diabetic subject , in whom it is interesting to speculate that serum lipid levels may have been towards the upper end of the normal distribution even in adolescence .
5 This excludes the Gettier cases because in them it is coincidental that the belief is true .
6 In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight .
7 The purse seine nets are made of large mesh in which it is easy for a dolphin to get its flipper or snout caught .
8 These are I think the various areas in which it is reasonable to raise the possibility that the law could be a moral authority .
9 However , one can do experiments in which it is reasonable to suppose , on the basis of a synthesis of experimental and theoretical results , that they are not grossly modifying the flow .
10 Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " .
11 I would only add that in a situation in which it is necessary to consider operating the machinery of the Convention , some psychological harm to the child is inherent , whether the child is or is not returned .
12 The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything .
13 There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race .
14 Other points covered in the elements chapter include the complementary nature of assets and liabilities , how in some cases identifying a liability leads to identification of an asset , as well as the question of offsetting — the circumstances in which it is correct to aggregate debit and credit items to form a single net asset or liability .
15 Undoubtedly , there will be cases under the Children Act 1989 in which it is appropriate for orders for costs to be made .
16 As I have already indicated , it is undoubtedly the case that there may be circumstances in which it is appropriate for a court to make an order for costs in a case relating to children .
17 I wonder whether you could define the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the Government to introduce a law reform Bill and seek to push it through all its procedures in a day without it going to a Standing Committee to be considered carefully as to its detail , when it happens that there is no particular circumstance of urgency and when the reform concerned could lead to considerable difficulties for the courts if the measure is not fully considered ?
18 That the court has inherent discretionary jurisdiction to clarify the expert clause was stated in Royal Trust International Ltd v Nordbanken ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 October : … there may well be cases in which it is appropriate in the interests of the expert as well as the party [ making the application to the court ] that there should be an advance determination of law or construction which will form the basis of the expert 's approach to his task .
19 However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be .
20 That God has waited until this late hour to create a situation in which it is right to ordain women also ?
21 While in modern society , power is conceived on the lines of a structuralism , in which it is impersonal structures that exercise power over individuals .
22 There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it .
23 Police are investigating an incident in which it is alleged leisure assistant Alan Deaton , 19 was assaulted during a roller disco at York 's Barbican Centre .
24 Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on …
25 Humbly we will ask God to make us great in simplicity and obedience , as we seek to bring to birth a human society in which it is normal for men to love one another .
26 It would be appropriate here simply to give a brief outline of events , and then limit any review to the ways in which it is relevant to John Howard and his cause .
27 This effect is not very powerful nor very important , but there is one particular way in which it is relevant in English : the previous chapter explained how the most frequently encountered vowels in weak syllables are , and ( syllabic consonants are also quite common ) .
28 When determining whether information is public knowledge they have regard to the form in which it is available .
29 Hence the individual voter 's starting-point in trying to influence policy through the electoral process is a situation of very limited choice in which it is general policy biases , or even more general considerations , often described as ‘ party images ’ , that must govern his or her selection of an MP .
30 Government can do much to set the boundaries in which it is possible to create wealth .
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