Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a flaw in the intervention For example , the rewards chosen were unsuitable in that the child did not value them enough or there was inconsistency because the PB was defined ambiguously . |
| 2 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 3 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 4 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 5 | The IFA were fortunate in that I was able to make it practically a full-time job because of my lifestyle . |
| 6 | ‘ The French were fortunate in that they had vessels of the right kind available . ’ |
| 7 | In this case the circumstances were unusual in that the suspect vessel had been intercepted in French waters and was being chased legitimately by armed French Cutters . |
| 8 | All of these doubtful cases of lawyer C were exceptional in that the client ran a one-man business , and was therefore likely to bring recurrent work to the firm . |
| 9 | He is a keen numismatist and this year we were privileged in that he himself prepared the coins for sale . |
| 10 | ‘ The results were encouraging in that we saw the benefits of assessments which enabled gaps in skills to be identified , ’ said , head of functional training at Courtaulds ' Training , Education and Development Centre at Woodside in the UK . |
| 11 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I think that the 80s were beneficial in that they produced plural arts funding . |
| 14 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 15 | His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance . |
| 16 | Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 18 | William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways . |
| 19 | In the circumstances , the latter 's preference for Model B was understandable in that it might seem to offer the degree of financial and educational independence which their maturity now merited . |
| 20 | The derailment at Dovey was interesting in that the back bogie of the 37/4 and front bogie of the first coach came off with a bump . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was interesting in that it linked county hall and Battersea power station , making it clear that the Labour party 's plans for a reborn Greater London council are not the reassuring slim-line version that Labour spokesmen have been peddling . |
| 22 | The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed . |
| 23 | Ireland 's timing was perfect in that they produced such a stunning performance in front of three of the four Lions selectors , Ken Reid , Derek Morgan and Bob Munro . |
| 24 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 25 | She was fortunate in that those who had passed through their political puberty in the fifties and sixties had grown up with a hazy notion of the Establishment . |
| 26 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 27 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
| 28 | He was fortunate in that he had the right doctor at the right time in the right so hospital |
| 29 | The situation was abnormal in that the substance of the bill had been agreed between the two frontbenches , but when the inter-party talks broke down ( over a Rhodesian order ) , the Shadow Cabinet gave their members a free vote and a group of them resisted the measure . |
| 30 | I was lucky in that we were able to spend time away from Berlin . |