Example sentences of "[prep] that it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 2 | The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment . |
| 3 | Limiting , in that it conceals a covert gender specificity which operates to justify women 's continued exclusion — whether from public life or philosophy . |
| 4 | Second , it stresses the importance of the immediate context of the poem over the distinction between ‘ metaphoric ’ and ‘ proper ’ , in that it analyses the pre-referential dynamic of the metaphoric process . |
| 5 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 6 | 638 is unsatisfactory in that it involves a legal fiction . |
| 7 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 8 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 9 | But it should be evident that it is true to his professed method , in that it executes a constant back-and-forth movement between the specific description of linguistic structures and the interpretation of the meaning of the poem as a whole . |
| 10 | From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism . |
| 11 | The County Court is particularly useful in that it operates a small claims procedure . |
| 12 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 13 | However , s 382B is significant in that it allows the sole member to conduct members ' business informally without notice or minutes . |
| 14 | The Ho-Sainteny agreement , momentous in that it allowed a temporary re-occupation of Tonkin by French forces , was nevertheless reckoned to be a preliminary . |
| 15 | The hesitations are clearly marked , but Stoppard 's last comment is also important in that it suggests a lengthy and embarrassed silence which implicates the reason for Anderson 's hesitancy . |
| 16 | He also keeps the following Presto agitato simmering for longer than usual ( track 4 ) , and his restraint pays off handsomely in that it throws the later climactic phases into relief . |
| 17 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 18 | This theory of the Asiatic mode of production is complicated and subtle ; it is hardly elaborated in Formen but it is fascinating in that it foreshadows a central concept in Capital . |
| 19 | Nonetheless the Social Charter remains important in that it provides the underpinning for the implementation of an action programme of over 40 measures which will be prepared by the Commission ( COM(89) 568 ) . |
| 20 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 21 | Where it differs , is in that it makes a serious effort to put the bits back together again ! |