Example sentences of "in [adj] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically it has an advantage over percutaneous cholecystolithotomy in that it requires a tract only 12 French in diameter as opposed to 30 French . |
| 2 | The case breaks new ground in Britain in that it seeks a ruling on whether radiation damage can be passed on to children through their fathers ' sperm , in which case , under current legislation , BNFL would be liable . |
| 3 | Indeed the clause in dispute in Walford v Miles was a lock-out clause in that it represented an undertaking by the vendor not to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser . |
| 4 | The inflation was a good thing in that it produced a universe that was smooth and uniform on a large scale and was expanding at just the critical rate to avoid recollapse . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't unlike golf in that it has a handicap system so that the better player can play against a less experienced person , ’ said the father-of-two . |
| 6 | In one respect the Free Presbyterian Church was a valuable resource of the DUP in that it provided a cadre of people who had considerable training and experience in organization and oratory : the ministers and elders . |
| 7 | The contact with Wren is of particular interest in that it provided an influence on his own architectural style , to be seen , for example , in the Clare north range ; but otherwise his designs display a pleasant artisan manner rather than a full understanding of the grammar of classical architecture . |
| 8 | The latest victims are Allan Ludman and Nicholas Coch , whose Physical Geology has a slight edge over its competitors in that it includes a series of rather handsome colour plates . |
| 9 | The idea of the state as societas corresponds to civil association in that it provides a vision of the state as a non-purposive , rule-based institution . |
| 10 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |
| 11 | In another it sold a part of the whole enterprise by converting the public corporation into Companies Act companies and selling half of the shares : it did this , for example , by reducing its stock in BP from 51 to 46 per cent in 1979 , then to 39 per cent in 1981 , and again to 31.7 per cent in 1984 . |
| 12 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 13 | In 1922 it received a shot in the arm through a large subsidy from the Central Committee . |
| 14 | This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 16 | ‘ When the Institution was founded in 1824 it cost a guinea a year to be a Governor . |
| 17 | Back in 1949 it cost a minimum of four shillings for a mention in the In Memoriam section . |
| 18 | In 1987 it signed a memorandum of agreement with Newham regarding the redevelopment of the Royal Docks that stipulated that regeneration would include the construction of social housing , the provision of training and community facilities , and so on ( London Borough of Newham , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | In 1987 it published a report on its observations of specific community care projects which were felt by local people to be successful . |
| 20 | Thus in general it seems a mistake to see attitudinism as the enemy of reason in ethics . |
| 21 | In 1982 it quit a coalition with the SDP and joined the CDU . |
| 22 | Thereafter it was used as a running-shed , serving the Promenade , Fleetwood and Marton routes in turn , until in 1945 it became a store for surplus trams . |
| 23 | In 1974 it formed an alliance with the left-wing rural workers ' union , the UTC . |
| 24 | In 1988 it had a trade deficit of 695,000,000 roubles representing 6.6 per cent of total crossborder trade . |
| 25 | In 1988 it had a trade deficit totalling some 1,500 million roubles representing 11.4 per cent of total crossborder trade . |
| 26 | In 1927 it became a unit of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux as the Imperial Mycological Institute and in 1930 moved into purpose-built accommodation on land leased from Kew Gardens . |