Example sentences of "[prep] that it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed . |
| 2 | There is an advantage to management too , in that it reduces the dependence of the machine on consistent human performance . |
| 3 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 4 | His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance . |
| 5 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 6 | The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s . |
| 7 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 8 | It is impossible to predict when QT prolongation will be beneficial , in that it represents a prolongation of ventricular refractoriness , and when it will be harmful . |
| 9 | Die Entführung is unlike any previous Singspiel , in that it represents a fusion of the technical resources of Italian opera seria with the homely tunefulness of the Singspiel . |
| 10 | As the surplus value or , as we should refer to it today , profit is reaped by the capitalist the system is unjust in that it enables the owners to exploit the workers . |
| 11 | More important , perhaps , is the fact that this account of the family may be considered defective in that it ignores the varieties of patterns of family living that are to be found in a modern industrial society . |
| 12 | The new procedure is simple in that it involves an application form having three parts on the front of it ( the declaration of means being on the back ) , first the information about the applicant and the charge , second a part to be completed by the Sheriff Clerk , and last a part to bc completed by the Local Secretary . |
| 13 | One of these has already been put forward , by the CNAA early in 1982 , termed Model C. In its response to the July 1981 Green Paper , the CNAA is critical both of Model A and Model B , regarding Model A as inadequate and lacking credibility both on academic and other grounds , and Model B as too exclusive in that it creates a division between institutions substantially involved in the provision of public sector higher education and those only marginally so . |
| 14 | Althusser describes the ideological form of Marx 's early work as humanist in that it addressed the problem of human nature or the essence of being human . |
| 15 | The case is significant in that it establishes the principle that the courts may refer , subject to specific criteria , to Parliamentary material when construing legislation . |
| 16 | This is a distinctive feature of the arrangements , both because it identifies pressure at an early stage and also in that it establishes the source of disturbance and whether it is a weak or strong currency . |
| 17 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 18 | Factoring is useful in that it relieves a company of the administrative burden of collecting book debt although it can be expensive . |
| 19 | THE Treasury admits its figure of £1 billion income is hypothetical in that it assumes no loss of sales . |
| 20 | The Martek Chainsaw Sharpener , a winner of The Daily Mail New Design Blue Ribbon Award , is unique in that it allows the cutting edges of chainsaws to be sharpened ‘ on-bar ’ — utilising a power drill . |
| 21 | I find the phrase ‘ deliberate tentativeness ’ a particularly sensitive one to apply to the identity problems of adolescence , in that it allows the individual the right to fail and to try again , to prove that she/he is capable of autonomous action . |
| 22 | Although its scope is narrow , applying to firms employing fewer than 500 people , it is both flexible and innovative in that it allows the formation of a corporate body constituted under European , as opposed to national law . |
| 23 | The decentralized authority has a somewhat dated ring to it , in that it retains a faith in the ability of the local state to decide and provide . |
| 24 | THE new campaign to combat solvent abuse , launched in London yesterday , is welcome in that it brings the problem before the public once more . |
| 25 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue 's Tax Bulletin is helpful in that it gives the Revenue 's view on how it interprets the law and relates it to practical points . |
| 27 | The design was somewhat unusual in that it used a power MOSFET rather than the usual 2N3055 ( or similar ) series-pass transistor . |
| 28 | Harris 's method supplements the general approach used by Lavandera ( of selectively directing the conversation ) in that it raises the possibility of seeking out situational contexts which are likely to favour frequent occurrence of a given construction . |
| 29 | Marxist feminism is rather more complicated in that it sees the oppression of women as inextricably linked to the class system . |
| 30 | This proved quite a successful theory for a number of years , in that it stimulated a lot of research and produced a corpus of compatible experimental results . |