Example sentences of "in [pron] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it is doubtful whether the vegetation in which it occurs is sufficiently well-developed that it could be identified with the community described in the NVC . |
| 2 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 3 | The tone chosen can indicate whether the tone-unit in which it occurs is being used to present new information or to refer to information which is felt to be already possessed by speaker and hearer . |
| 4 | In his view , the letter should be used to show that the Board 's policy in the one county in which it had been implemented for at least two years was a misconceived , divisive one . |
| 5 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 6 | Published in 1977 , by the Department of Education and Science the document suggested that the work of schools needed to be analysed in a ‘ quantitative ’ form as well as in the ‘ subjective and qualitative ’ way in which it had been measured hitherto . |
| 7 | Trade union activity is gradually gathering strength again after a period in which it had been almost impossible to act publicly . |
| 8 | Vaisey J. referred to The Kestrel ( 1866 ) L.R. 1 A. & E. 78 and In re Queen 's Hotel Co . ( Cardiff ) Ltd. [ 1900 ] 1 Ch. 792 , in which it had been held that an order for a mortgagee to receive its costs ‘ properly incurred ’ required that the costs be taxed on a party and party basis , and held that both the costs of the proceedings and the mortgagee 's other costs , charges and expenses should be taxed on a party and party basis . |
| 9 | What was there to show for the union 's militancy when no-one could recall a single dispute in which it had been successful ? |
| 10 | But despite the obvious appeal of this rather pragmatic use of the social class concept , difficulties emerged in societies with social structures different from those in which it had been used apparently successfully . |
| 11 | A second slave began to ladle stewed meat onto the heaped k'va , and the aroma of the ch'min in which it had been cooked made his nostrils twitch . |
| 12 | Public reaction to the coup was muted , largely reflecting the undramatic manner in which it had been carried out . |
| 13 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 14 | It also welcomes the changes in VAT , which are clearly of benefit to commerce , and the measures to encourage prompt payment of VAT , the delays in which it says are a vital factor affecting a great number of firms . |
| 15 | This is called the RECORD OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ( RET ) and the way in which it operates is fully described below . |
| 16 | Guinness has maintained this tradition , believing that making a contribution to the society in which it prospers is as important today as it was when the company was founded . |
| 17 | Its date is uncertain , but if the Fairfax MS in which it appears was commissioned by Sir John Stanley , his death in c .1469 would provide a terminus ad quem . |
| 18 | Understandably , the courts are more willing to review a decision because of the way in which it has been reached than because of its actual merits , or lack of them . |
| 19 | Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years , the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties . |
| 20 | Following a series of projects in which it has been shown that mills and large warehouses may satisfactorily be converted into dwellings , some interest has been shown in the possibility of treating redundant factories similarly . |
| 21 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 22 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 23 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |
| 24 | Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information . |
| 25 | Given the detail in which it has been decided the curriculum will be determined and assessed , these problems are inevitable . |
| 26 | Here we shall be looking rather more closely at changes within the state system itself , considering ways in which it has been restructured or , perhaps more accurately , was restructuring itself , in response to crisis . |
| 27 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 28 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 29 | By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies . |
| 30 | The area of the theory to which this criticism seems most obviously to apply , and the context in which it has been most discussed , is Poulantzas ' account of the defining characteristics of classes . |