Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOEX news , USER news and INFUSE , from the three national clearinghouses , are in a different category in that they are not simply national but international in their coverage of news . |
| 2 | There is a particular problem associated with some designs in that they are activated simply by the sound of barking . |
| 3 | Diesel cars have many advantages over petrol driven cars in that they use less fuel , have a longer working life , and are more reliable and cheaper to maintain . |
| 4 | In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds . |
| 5 | Both can be seen as popular traditions in that they appeal to ‘ the people ’ , but while popular interpellations tend to absorb and neutralise potentially antagonistic elements , populism tends to develop them : |
| 6 | The words ‘ sensation of white ’ are unlike a proper name in that they have connotation . |
| 7 | Perhaps Betty had asked some people in and they were enduring one of those breaks in conversation , but the silence went on . |
| 8 | Such fluctuations are of theoretical significance in that they provide a direct probe of critical phenomena in general , and a stringent test of scaling theories , which describe the approach to the critical point . |
| 9 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |
| 10 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 11 | The facts in the case were similar to those in the instant case in that they involved complaints made against police officers in respect of arrests made by them at the Wapping disturbances in January 1987 . |
| 12 | The Awards differ from personal honours in that they are given to a " unit " as a whole — management and employees working as a team . |
| 13 | They have advantages over larger fixed pads in that they are transportable and less prone to variation caused by moisture , and they give a more uniform distribution of the radioelements . |
| 14 | They differ from ordinary genes in that they can move from one site to another in the chromosome . |
| 15 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 16 | Companies of this type are , in my opinion , real bureau in that they simply process the material you supply and do n't seek to interfere with the design . |
| 17 | Several aspects of Balinese dance as interpreted by Artaud have important implications for the understanding of postmodern culture in that they illustrate cultural de-differentiation . |
| 18 | Such figures are of limited value in that they contain no guide as to whether the resources have been spent efficiently or effectively . |
| 19 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
| 20 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool are a unique combination in that they have a similar brand of comedy , but two completely individual styles . |
| 21 | Middle-out strategies , which have been used with more powerful grammars , have an advantage over strict left-to-right strategies in that they can use areas of better acoustic quality as islands of comparative certainty from which to tackle areas of poorer quality . |
| 22 | The rich have greater incentive to oppose redistributive policies in that they have much more to lose , and there are arguments that suggest that risk-averse individuals are keener to defend against a loss than to secure a gain ( see Jones and Cullis 1986 ) . |
| 23 | He observes that fantasies operate like the primary process in that they ‘ fulfil desire ’ without the transformation of external reality but instead through the cathexis of , for example , the perceptual memory ( image ) of an organ . |
| 24 | For example : bed , patient , ward , nurse , are all concepts in that they refer to classes of things , not single instances . |
| 25 | Although video recordings may have a strong appeal , in so far as they appear to capture a more complete picture of any speech episode , they have major disadvantages in that they are highly obtrusive , they usually need to be manned and they are relatively cumbersome if the child has to be followed around . |
| 26 | Traditionally they are associated with all kinds of bean dishes , and are good digestants in that they prevent flatulence . |
| 27 | Once it is understood that the symptoms of disease are actually a good thing in that they are the highly characteristic outward indication of the healing and balancing process that is going on inside each individual person , then to give a medicine that is capable of mimicking and bringing about that same process suddenly seems to be a good idea ; both totally reasonable and logical . |
| 28 | These students differ from traditional students in that they are not entering straight from school . |
| 29 | This is rather misleading because they are neither all that grand , nor fully unified , nor complete theories in that they have a number of undetermined renormalization parameters such as coupling constants and masses . |
| 30 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |