Example sentences of "in that [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much like the relationship between GM and Lotus in that we do co-operative engineering work with it , but we do n't get actively involved in the day-to-day operation of that company . |
| 2 | Oats are a ‘ safer ’ feed in that they contain more husk . |
| 3 | This is the sense that is represented by the title Aesop 's Fables : used of unrealistic stories ( Aesop 's fables are unrealistic in that they present anthropomorphized beasts and birds ) which may nonetheless present a valuable and pertinent moral to their readers . |
| 4 | Diesel cars have many advantages over petrol driven cars in that they use less fuel , have a longer working life , and are more reliable and cheaper to maintain . |
| 5 | Japan is a hierarchical society and the Japanese are very status conscious in that they use different forms of language and bow in different manners according to the status relationship with another individual . |
| 6 | The changes in histamine secretion may be important in that they change mucosal blood flow and thus alter mucosal defence . |
| 7 | Also , current recommendations for screening for stroke and major coronary events by blood pressure measurements are not rational in that they take little account of the absolute risk of these diseases , specifying cut off levels for blood pressure screening that take little or no account of age . |
| 8 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 9 | I think that the 80s were beneficial in that they produced plural arts funding . |
| 10 | They are general in nature in that they indicate broad areas of content and could be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 11 | They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language . |
| 12 | But such ecosystems are often open , in that they require heavy inputs of nutrients and energy to maintain populations and productivity of a few selected species of plants and animals . |
| 13 | Machicolations , usually regarded as a sign of nobility , had their practical value in that they permitted vertical defence against those who might have reached the dead ground near a wall , and might be setting about digging or mining under it . |
| 14 | There has been work going on for sometime in developing user friendly programs for statistical analysis which are ‘ intelligent ’ in that they include many checks for pitfalls and errors . |
| 15 | Such trades are commercial , in that they represent genuine business transactions , but have not been effected through the exchange 's competitive trading system . |
| 16 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 17 | They were specialists , too , in that they favoured one type of war , that of surprise in which the dawn raid was more effective than the siege . |
| 18 | Several aspects of Balinese dance as interpreted by Artaud have important implications for the understanding of postmodern culture in that they illustrate cultural de-differentiation . |
| 19 | Here art orders our vision , deliberately interventionist in that it presents those uncertainties and anxieties of childhood where difference makes life a misery whilst providing poignant images for the artist . |
| 20 | The use of a common stack has one disadvantage ( if it is a disadvantage ) in that it forces stricter adherence to proper program structure . |
| 21 | Roberts ( 1971 ) is a rather special example , in that it combines personal reminiscence with careful historical research into poverty in Edwardian Manchester . |
| 22 | The Pechman and Okner study is more refined in that it uses individual observations from the MERGE file rather than income ranges , but similar procedures are applied ( for example , excises are allocated using consumer expenditure survey data ) . |
| 23 | Its moral claims were , in the most literal sense of the word , conservative , in that it enjoined ancient truths and established values , and Samuel Johnson as well as William Blake was a hero . |
| 24 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 25 | A ‘ trip ’ sequence twice over , in that it frames drugged-out perception through a moving windscreen , it 's a good advert for the cinema-as-drug concept . |
| 26 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 27 | The first factor is important in that it brings some applications within the database world ( for example , computer aided design , computer aided manufacture , architectural design , software design ( Case ) and office automation ) , previously ill-served by relational databases because of the performance of relational database systems and because the relational model itself is unsuitable For those domains . |
| 28 | BL Additional MS 10289 , which contains a copy of Jouglet , is more interesting in that it shows distinct traces of particularly Norman interest , beginning for instance with a long Roman du Mont St Michel , St Michael 's Mount being situated on the coast of Normandy . |
| 29 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 30 | Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words . |