Example sentences of "in [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was time to sign off before familiarity bred contempt , and just in case it already had I decided to hurt her .
2 … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay .
3 In part this was due to Henry II 's presence on the Continent from April 1180 to July 1181 ; in part it doubtless reflects the subdued mood of the Angoumois and the Limousin with so many of the wealthiest and most influential nobles away on pilgrimage .
4 More recent evidence suggests , however , that while it lives in woodland it actually hunts over nearby open areas ( Glue & Hammond , 1974 ; Yalden , 1985 ) .
5 In addition it also contains Russian .
6 This not only provides an excellent summary of recreational use ( since it is based on a 1977 home-interview survey of 5,040 respondents ) ( Countryside Commission , 1982 ) but in addition it also provides an explanation for any deviation from the curve , as shown in Figure 7.3a theoretically , and in Figure 7.3b in practice .
7 In addition it often helps if the cabinet is labelled as to its purpose and operating range .
8 In addition it formally approved the shortening of the current Assembly 's term in anticipation of early legislative elections , scheduled for Feb. 16 , 1992 [ see p. 38518 ] .
9 In practice it soon withdrew .
10 In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose .
11 The term is used to cover different types of situation but in practice it usually refers to the danger to old people 's health and safety which may arise when they live alone and are very frail , either physically , mentally or both .
12 It 's great in theory , but in practice it sometimes does n't work .
13 Much of the focus has so far been on integration , instigated predominantly by non-Disabled people , as a mean for all sections of the community to be involved on an equal basis , in a way which does not differentiate between the intention of this approach is genuine , in practice it often transmutes into another form of exclusion and discrimination .
14 The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues .
15 When the party is in opposition it also elects the Parliamentary Committee or Shadow Cabinet .
16 In industry it often happens that a great deal of thought goes into the design of a project , when the real problem is finding the right person to run the project .
17 Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter .
18 Its drawbacks were obvious , but so long as the tsar sought noble acquiescence in reform it probably represented the only sort of emancipation which had a chance of reaching the statute book .
19 In business it never hurts to be cautious .
20 After a mile or two of expecting the Range Rover in pursuit it finally came home to her that Penry had no intention of following her .
21 But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world .
22 Critics claim that Freire 's ideal was a ‘ classless ’ environment for literacy campaigns , whereas in reality it inevitably tended to be urban , middle-class people who were passing on the skills .
23 The model had been increasingly internationalized as the churches of Latin America , Asia and Africa were given a more active role within it — but then in principle it always had been internationalist , and even in class terms egalitarian , the greatest of all ultramontanes being the socially radical English Cardinal Manning .
24 When a word-processor records your keyboard actions in memory it also stores additional information about the layout , spacing and style of the document .
25 In fact it rarely met in the 1920s .
26 My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now .
27 We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) .
28 In fact it soon found out , since by the end of July 1922 the ARA was having to feed 822,000 children and over a million adults in the Ukraine .
29 If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did .
30 I 'm not surprised that Mr is happy to propose it because in fact it actually means that the status quo will in fact be cemented that that the situation that we 've been faced with will in fact be enshrined and supported by the council and and the Labour party have been consistently advocating that really a and they will get their way if this motion is passed .
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