Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed .
2 In the terms established earlier this , like the Monadology itself , seems an unsatisfactory account of consciousness in that it ignores the unity principle , for what that is worth .
3 Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 .
4 It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B.
5 Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information .
6 M&A work is different to many other more traditional types of work in that it normally concludes in a completion meeting .
7 The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity .
8 It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators .
9 As a method of appraisal it is considered particularly appropriate to the area of art in that it places great emphasis upon the validity of individual response and interpretation .
10 The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class .
11 In addition , the DFR 's text differed sharply from that of the ocean bill of lading in that it lacked the terms and conditions of carriage , including disclaimers .
12 Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows .
13 The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) .
14 A critical examination of the Soviet past , as in Andreeva 's letter , was a necessary part of perestroika in that it helped to provide a better , clearer picture of the way forward .
15 This demand for a broader perspective trenches on the form and content of history in that it involves both enquiry into new areas and novel modes of explanation .
16 Vinnen , whose offensive smacked of anti-semitism in that it centred on the figure of Paul Cassirer and lambasted the critics for being in the service of speculators and dealers , called for a boycott on the purchase of non-German art .
17 Erm , but agricultural supply is complicated simply by the , the actual nature of supply in that you know , farmer has N , N products that he could produce .
18 The dialectic of labour produces a different effect , on a differently constituted subject , than that of language in that it involves subjection to the world of nature .
19 This was the first , and remains the only , attempt to summarise all of the known archaeology of the period in England and is of interest in that it describes the aims and methods of Anglo-Saxon archaeology as Leeds perceived them ; it was reprinted in 1970 .
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