Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most generous interpretation of the figures reveals a very modest increase in funding and it most certainly does not even begin to compensate for ten years of cuts . |
| 2 | Charles Gordon , Strathclyde 's vice-chairman of roads and transportation , said Mr Freeman 's comments underlined the good reasons for the regional council 's refusal to invest further in rail unless it was assured the PTE was involved in franchising services . |
| 3 | A new State is bound by the rules of customary international law in existence when it acquires Statehood . |
| 4 | So far as I am aware it is no longer in production but there must be many thousands in existence and it is a reasonable assumption that many of these are not now being used . |
| 5 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |
| 6 | Sometimes time series exhibit an obvious change in level and it may be sensible to analyse the two halves separately , producing two roughs and two smooths . |
| 7 | But from the age of thirteen or fourteen , I knew I wanted to do research in physics because it was the most fundamental science . |
| 8 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 9 | The home side were equally decisive in defence and it was a full hour before White suddenly found an opening . |
| 10 | Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 12 | This was in part because it was simply not working . |
| 13 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 14 | California bears the brunt of illegal migration , in part because it receives nearly half the Mexicans coming across the border each year . |
| 15 | This argument has received wide currency , in part because it again presents Gloucester as the victim of circumstances rather than their manipulator . |
| 16 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 17 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 18 | This argument has received wide currency , in part because it again presents Gloucester as the victim of circumstances rather than their manipulator . |
| 19 | De Gaulle rejected the same deal , in part because it was not , in fact , the same deal . |
| 20 | erm and that presumably in , in part is because there is this radical groundswell from the peasants in , in part because it would need a new policy after nineteen forty five would n't you because not just on , on the financial side but er er a lot of your mobilization has come through , a as you say , nationalism now once the Japanese are defeated , that 's finished . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co , for all the speculation Unix System Labs Inc put in play that it would win its adherence to Destiny , says it 's not going to adopt the SVR4.2 code . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm a soldier , Captain , the game was in play and it is a game , would n't you agree ? ’ |
| 23 | , I 'm still in play as it were , and I do that then it 's . |
| 24 | The very stability which so commended itself to farmers — any transient compound is less useful in agriculture unless it can be applied directly to the pest — was the factor which so alarmed ecologists . |
| 25 | Devonshire weavers were angered in 1743 at their masters " forcing them to take corn , bread , bacon , cheese , butter and other necessaries of life , in truck as it is called , for their labour " . |
| 26 | He added that he would be raising the matter in Parliament when it reconvenes . |
| 27 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 28 | One of the great issues in the revolutionary struggle of the seventeenth century ( and in a sense it had gone on ever since and , indeed , even before Magna Carta in 1215 ) , culminating in the Bill of Rights 1689 , was as to the liability of the subject to be taxed by the Crown without his consent as expressed by his representatives in Parliament and it was an issue resolved against the Crown and in favour of the subject . |
| 29 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 30 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |