Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Martek Chainsaw Sharpener , a winner of The Daily Mail New Design Blue Ribbon Award , is unique in that it allows the cutting edges of chainsaws to be sharpened ‘ on-bar ’ — utilising a power drill . |
| 2 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 3 | Althusser describes the ideological form of Marx 's early work as humanist in that it addressed the problem of human nature or the essence of being human . |
| 4 | THE new campaign to combat solvent abuse , launched in London yesterday , is welcome in that it brings the problem before the public once more . |
| 5 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 6 | The Inland Revenue 's Tax Bulletin is helpful in that it gives the Revenue 's view on how it interprets the law and relates it to practical points . |
| 7 | Although its scope is narrow , applying to firms employing fewer than 500 people , it is both flexible and innovative in that it allows the formation of a corporate body constituted under European , as opposed to national law . |
| 8 | Objective 1 here is more specific in that it concerns the way in which a programme for intervention , designed to correct a problem , can be derived and constructed . |
| 9 | Marxist feminism is rather more complicated in that it sees the oppression of women as inextricably linked to the class system . |
| 10 | It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed . |
| 11 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 12 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 13 | Nonetheless the Social Charter remains important in that it provides the underpinning for the implementation of an action programme of over 40 measures which will be prepared by the Commission ( COM(89) 568 ) . |
| 14 | It is no less important in that it marked the return of Ho Chi Minh to Indochina after an absence of 30 years . |
| 15 | As the surplus value or , as we should refer to it today , profit is reaped by the capitalist the system is unjust in that it enables the owners to exploit the workers . |
| 16 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 17 | His successor Breton d'Amboise 's version was more influential in that it provided the base for three other amplifications , one anonymous , the other two by John of Marmoutier . |
| 18 | More important , perhaps , is the fact that this account of the family may be considered defective in that it ignores the varieties of patterns of family living that are to be found in a modern industrial society . |
| 19 | The case is significant in that it establishes the principle that the courts may refer , subject to specific criteria , to Parliamentary material when construing legislation . |
| 20 | However , s 382B is significant in that it allows the sole member to conduct members ' business informally without notice or minutes . |
| 21 | Language is open-ended in that it permits the generation of new meanings and new forms ( for example , metaphorical meanings and neologisms ) . |