Example sentences of "in [verb] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ There is an ] exceptional case , in which , though the predicate is the name of a class , yet in predicating it we affirm nothing but resemblance , the class being founded not on resemblance in any given particular , but on general unanalysable resemblance . |
| 2 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 3 | One can indeed imagine a tree without anyone perceiving or having ideas of it , but in imagining it one is oneself having ideas of it . |
| 4 | The summary should give a brief statement of the contents of the report , but in writing it you should give particular attention to the conclusions and recommendations . |
| 5 | After all this ugliness , like a slime around them , he would resent her because she knew about it , because in sharing it she 'd become part of it . |
| 6 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 7 | Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory . |
| 8 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 9 | She dropped Wexford 's hand , recoiling as if in taking it she had done something indecent . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State was very impressed by his visit to Basildon , and I should certainly be interested in visiting it myself if and when my diary allowed it . |