Example sentences of "in [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 2 | Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience . |
| 3 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 4 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 5 | It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me . |
| 6 | Most of these were undetectable in that there were few enquiries I could pursue after the event ; for example , the purse stolen by an unknown thief an hour or two prior to the report and perhaps with the exact time and location of the theft unknown left little chance for skilled investigation . |
| 7 | Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain . |
| 8 | The reader can not have failed to notice that J. A. Fodor is fast emerging here as the bête noire , in that he both presents the strongest case for the representational theory of the mind and champions the conclusion which flows from it about the impossibility of concept-learning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Carving chisels are similar to ordinary carpentry chisels , in that the edge of the blade is flat and square across the shank . |
| 11 | The principal change in the 1980s has come with the creation of the sectors , in that the PTEs primarily talk business to the sectors these days , the region then delivering the agreed product . |
| 12 | He graded it an unlikely E7 6c — unlikely in that it is , in all probability , much harder . |
| 13 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 14 | Then he moves in , for example to reveal that the young hero-murderer , once the deed was done , had a completely new experience ‘ of infinite loneliness and estrangement ’ ; and that this experience ‘ was most agonising in that it was a sensation rather than knowledge or intellectual understanding , a direct sensation , the most painful sensation he had ever experienced in his life . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 17 | The contemporary New Historicists , however , are unlike interpreters of the past , in that they are concerned with exclusively political readings , without any possibility of aesthetic or affective responses . |
| 18 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 19 | There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner . |
| 20 | For how long can Mrs Thatcher continue to recognise China 's present position , in spite of martial law in Lhasa and a series of brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrations by Chinese troops , in that HMG recognises the Chinese occupation of Tibet ? |
| 21 | ‘ He reminds me a lot of Billy Hamilton in that he 's rangy and big and he gets in there on the end of crosses to do untold damage . ’ |
| 22 | The Bill will be a special one in that the political parties are allowing their members in both Houses a free vote because the issue is deemed to be one of conscience . |
| 23 | ‘ Quality of childcare and practicality are also important and although cash works out cheapest , it has a serious drawback in that the employer has no control over how the money is being used . |
| 24 | ‘ Its appeal lies in that the characters are very human , ’ says Uderzo . |
| 25 | In this regard , the fieldworker 's experiences with the RUC are similar to those of other young female researchers , in that she was subject to sexual hustling , fraternizing , and paternalistic attitudes from male respondents ( see Easterday et al . |
| 26 | But this particular extract is useful for another reason , in that it shows , through the sub-plots which appear within it , the range of issues provoked by the research which respondents were sensitive about . |
| 27 | While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda . |
| 28 | Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 29 | This knowledge is also recursive , in that the competent policeman or woman needs to know which criminals have a common-sense knowledge about the activities and deployment of the police , which requires that they have the additional common sense to confound the criminal 's working knowledge of the police . |
| 30 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |