Example sentences of "in that [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The changes in histamine secretion may be important in that they change mucosal blood flow and thus alter mucosal defence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I think that the 80s were beneficial in that they produced plural arts funding . |
| 7 | They are general in nature in that they indicate broad areas of content and could be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 8 | They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such trades are commercial , in that they represent genuine business transactions , but have not been effected through the exchange 's competitive trading system . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Roberts ( 1971 ) is a rather special example , in that it combines personal reminiscence with careful historical research into poverty in Edwardian Manchester . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her approach is fruitful in that it explores major issues in women 's poetry of the time and its relation to the literary mainstream . |
| 21 | Much of this research is purely theoretical , in that it explores computational implementations of linguistic theories that are independent of any specific application area . |
| 22 | The work is additionally important in that it provides sensitive methods of assessing the effectiveness of new drugs which are designed to improve memory in diseases such as senile dementia . |
| 23 | In that it joins other states like Iran , Israel , Pakistan and India who are all thought to be pursuing military nuclear programmes . |
| 24 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 25 | The colonial state was a peculiar extension of the metropolitan capitalist state , in that it established political authority relations at the point of production and expanded state control over marketing . |
| 26 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |