Example sentences of "[prep] that [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 34 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | This is a distinctive feature of the arrangements , both because it identifies pressure at an early stage and also in that it establishes the source of disturbance and whether it is a weak or strong currency . |
| 38 | However , s 382B is significant in that it allows the sole member to conduct members ' business informally without notice or minutes . |
| 39 | I find the phrase ‘ deliberate tentativeness ’ a particularly sensitive one to apply to the identity problems of adolescence , in that it allows the individual the right to fail and to try again , to prove that she/he is capable of autonomous action . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | THE new campaign to combat solvent abuse , launched in London yesterday , is welcome in that it brings the problem before the public once more . |
| 43 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Harris 's method supplements the general approach used by Lavandera ( of selectively directing the conversation ) in that it raises the possibility of seeking out situational contexts which are likely to favour frequent occurrence of a given construction . |
| 46 | Marxist feminism is rather more complicated in that it sees the oppression of women as inextricably linked to the class system . |
| 47 | This achieves a critical economy in language , in that it precludes the use of more than one conventional expression to convey a particular meaning . |
| 48 | But the rest of Frolik 's information was not particularly valuable except in that it convinced the CIA that Britain 's Labour Party was riddled with Communist sympathisers and thus untrustworthy , and helped lead to the suspicions against Prime Minister Harold Wilson . |
| 49 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 50 | Unlike theirs , his position is an essentially humanist one , in that it stresses the relevance of art to life . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | He also keeps the following Presto agitato simmering for longer than usual ( track 4 ) , and his restraint pays off handsomely in that it throws the later climactic phases into relief . |
| 53 | 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 ) . |
| 54 | It is no less important in that it marked the return of Ho Chi Minh to Indochina after an absence of 30 years . |
| 55 | Language is open-ended in that it permits the generation of new meanings and new forms ( for example , metaphorical meanings and neologisms ) . |
| 56 | It could also be construed as a naturalistic rival to supernatural religion , in that it presented the world as a closed system in which the deity was little more than a physical hypothesis to explain motion or change — a world in which there was no room for a higher human destiny . |
| 57 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |