Example sentences of "[prep] that it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 2 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 3 | The above form is essentially objective , in that it relates to the objects of local government , e.g. education , health , highways , etc . |
| 4 | To be fair , the same company does publish David Widgery 's remarkable chronicle of a GP 's East End , Some Lives ! : almost unique in that it speaks from within the culture described , rather than taking day-trips to deprivation . |
| 5 | Poverty compelled a return to advertising in the early 1940s but the work of this period is essentially derivative in that it borrows from the artist 's own paintings . |
| 6 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 7 | The model of style proposed here is " pluralist " in that it allows for three distinct levels ( semantic , syntactic , graphological ) at which stylistic choices can be made . |
| 8 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 9 | Although the network approach does answer some of the problems of the hierarchical approach , particularly in that it deals with many-to-many relationships , it is more complex . |
| 10 | In contrast to more conventional strategies for innovation , especially found in America , organization development is holistic or systemic in that it concentrates on the organization more than on the isolated individual or practice . |
| 11 | Their anthology , like Grigson 's , is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration . |
| 12 | That which restructures for labour is local , in that it arises from a desire to tackle local problems with locally based solutions to benefit local people . |
| 13 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 14 | Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience . |
| 15 | The ethogenic approach , proposed by Harré and Secord ( 1972 ) , Harré ( 1979 ) and Harré , Clarke and de Cario ( 1985 ) , resembles such universal anthropologies , in that it searches for basic social psychological patterns of action . |
| 16 | As we shall see , the reversal remains inadequate in that it conceives of homophobia in mainly psychosexual terms , and phobic ones at that . |
| 17 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 18 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 19 | The CSA 1985 , which is by far the most important piece of legislation , in that it lies at the heart of anti-insider dealing regulation in the UK , outlines the substantive elements of insider dealing offences . |
| 20 | ‘ But such heaviness of heart is bitter-sweet , in that it pines for the absence of the beloved whilst looking to the joy of reunion . |
| 21 | Their position is thus an empiricist one , in that it rests on the principle that knowledge is the product of experience . |
| 22 | This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables . |
| 23 | Erm if you look at that it looks as if you spend a bit more on presents than stationery . |