Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclusion in NHS consultants ' contracts of a formal commitment to teaching is a step in the right direction in that it acknowledges that most doctors teach to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 2 | The BDDA has always had a weak link in that it never could command the necessary influential backing , financially and in personnel , to carry out its objects . |
| 3 | This approach is appropriate to a commercial buyer in that it forces the buyer to reveal his requirements if the purpose is over and above the most basic one for goods of that kind . |
| 4 | Well it 's like medieval philosophy in that it 's not utilitarian . |
| 5 | However , ‘ Capitalism and its attendant , the modern State , effected everywhere a widening of the cultural community in that it freed the masses from the fetters of an all-powerful tradition and called them to participate in the regeneration of a national culture ’ . |
| 6 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 7 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 8 | This was again a very painful operation in that she still suffered pain for many weeks thereafter . |
| 9 | Are n't I playing high status in that I can tell you who you are ? |
| 10 | And by buying two guides but getting the same historical information in each you do feel you 're not getting full value for money . |
| 11 | It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream . |
| 12 | The scientific prediction of a person 's limitations , and thus his possible fate , has a very dangerous component in that it may lead the individual to inaction and despair . |
| 13 | Opiates , particularly diamorphine , are better at relieving anxiety , but diamorphine has an additional advantage in that it is a vasodilator , it unloads the left ventricle and may help heart failure . |
| 14 | Although South Dakota carried little electoral weight , either nationally or in terms of its proportion of delegates sent to the nominating convention , it had considerable significance for the Democratic contest in that it was adjacent to the native states of both Harkin and Kerrey , each of whom needed a good showing after their disappointing results in New Hampshire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 17 | It is an extremely versatile commodity in that it provides petrol , fuel oil , chemicals and synthetic fibres , etc . |
| 18 | Although modest in scope and requiring Senate and presidential approval before becoming effective , the legislation — known as the " Brady bill " — was of the utmost symbolic importance in that it represented a historic defeat for the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) , one of the country 's most powerful interest groups . |
| 19 | Thus a fully anticipated change in fiscal policy is quite likely to have some effect on real output in that it affects the willingness of the population to work to produce output . |
| 20 | While this type of filter can be used on the cichlid breeding aquarium , removing any debris that the digging cichlids stir up , it can have one serious drawback in that it will also remove any fry from the tank as well and has to be used with care in this situation , if at all . |
| 21 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 22 | In some instances , management have done this because they have believed that de-skilling is a counter-productive strategy in that it lowers morale , commitment , motivation , and optimum use of human resources . |
| 23 | It has an additional significance in that it links science and ethics ; it unites theory and practice . |
| 24 | Now that would be an ea that 's er telemarketing in it 's in it 's pure sense in that you 're offering something free are you interested |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 27 | Poetry differs from ordinary language in that it activates the secondary or collateral meanings of a word simultaneously , a strategy which would disrupt ordinary communication , which depends on the absence of ambiguity through there being only one functional meaning for a word . |
| 28 | some sense is a technical amendment in that we know that there are a whole series of schemes which we which have been . |
| 29 | The Council is , thanks to the SEA , more than ever the true ‘ Parliament ’ of the European Community in that it — rather than the Strasbourg assembly — passes the Community 's laws and does so , moreover , behind closed doors in ways which would not be tolerated in any individual national member state . |
| 30 | The regulations have one very unusual effect in that it is permissible to make a reproduction of a topography for the purpose of analyzing or evaluating that topography or the concepts , processes , systems or techniques embodied in it by section 226(1A) of the 1988 Act . |