Example sentences of "in that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 2 | The Lamar Alternator Failure Warning Light Relays ( Lamar Part No 00258 , Piper number 587863 ) had catastrophically failed in that they had caught fire . |
| 3 | Forty per cent were poorly supported in that they had neither of these contacts at such frequency . |
| 4 | In 1979 , for example , of the 80,000 full-time teachers employed in further education only just over 36,000 , or about 45 per cent , were trained in that they had successfully completed a course of professional training approved by the DES . |
| 5 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 6 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 7 | The ILP was specifically socialist " while many Labour unionists and politicians were essentially " labour " in that they regarded the protection of living standards and of trade unions as their primary reason for entering parliament . |
| 8 | In the same year that the school seconded a member of staff to develop the school-industry relationship , our second secondment was in many ways closely related in that we released a member of staff with a brief about the development of a Record of Achievement and Experience ( RAE ) . |
| 9 | Were n't things when you were a little girl , it did n't have bits like that , a lot of things come in that we did n't use to have |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 11 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 12 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 13 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 14 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 15 | I just chucked everything in that I had , did it , in the box and we were out before seven . |
| 16 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 17 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 18 | The 1986 Act was seen by many as a missed opportunity in that it failed to state in positive terms that there was a right to protest peacefully . |
| 19 | This stage , then , took our research a step further in that it penetrated the submerged section of the ‘ iceberg ’ and offered some insight into this large and hidden sector of users . |
| 20 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 21 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 22 | The Gulf crisis complicated the budgetary position in that it made the negotiators ' original $50,000 million deficit reduction target appear unrealistically high , while increasing the threat of the economy being pushed into recession . |
| 23 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 24 | Malinowski ( 1964 ) argues that ritual served an important function in that it alleviated the anxiety of the participants in areas of uncertainty . |
| 25 | In presenting the majority opinion , Justice William J. Brennan noted that the new statute had been framed to penalize all flag burning , regardless of motive , but contained " the same fundamental flaw " in that it suppressed expression with which the legislators disagreed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As this model had some rather obvious shortcomings in that it identified the freedom to publish with individual property rights of purchase and sale of newspaper titles , it was necessary to overlay the libertarian ( laissez-faire ) position with an element of social conscience . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War . |
| 30 | By 1983 the Task Force had become more institutionalized in that it had begun to deal with matters relating to mainstream local-authority funding programmes , Urban Programme submissions , derelict-land grant applications , and so on . |