Example sentences of "[prep] that it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 2 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 3 | The model of style proposed here is " pluralist " in that it allows for three distinct levels ( semantic , syntactic , graphological ) at which stylistic choices can be made . |
| 4 | Although the network approach does answer some of the problems of the hierarchical approach , particularly in that it deals with many-to-many relationships , it is more complex . |
| 5 | The ethogenic approach , proposed by Harré and Secord ( 1972 ) , Harré ( 1979 ) and Harré , Clarke and de Cario ( 1985 ) , resembles such universal anthropologies , in that it searches for basic social psychological patterns of action . |
| 6 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 7 | This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables . |