Example sentences of "[be] unusual [prep] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bushy , white-edged ‘ Madame Salleron ’ is a fine edger for summer beds and is unusual in that it never flowers . |
| 2 | This bacterium is unusual in that it tolerates extremely acid conditions . |
| 3 | Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant . |
| 4 | The retina is unusual in that it can be moved to scan the scene . |
| 5 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The resulting conflict , the Battle of Grunberg , was unusual in that it consisted almost entirely of mounted troops on both sides , the best of the Empire 's knights versus the most mobile part of the Orc horde . |