Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 2 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 3 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The result was seen as crucial in that it provided Sandiford with a personal mandate to govern . |
| 6 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 7 | As such that undertaking was as obnoxious as if it had been contained in the articles of association , and was therefore unenforceable , being contrary to Art 131 of The Companies ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 . |
| 8 | Among the fragments of blackened paper he saw a used safety match , the unburnt half of the stem clean and white as if it had only recently been struck . |
| 9 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 10 | The ILEA was unique in that it dealt only with education , whereas all other local authorities have education alongside other local government responsibilities , such as housing , transport and social services . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The design was somewhat unusual in that it used a power MOSFET rather than the usual 2N3055 ( or similar ) series-pass transistor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 16 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 17 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Ho-Sainteny agreement , momentous in that it allowed a temporary re-occupation of Tonkin by French forces , was nevertheless reckoned to be a preliminary . |
| 21 | It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed . |
| 22 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 23 | This Act was important in that it eased restrictions in the field of public service transport , but critics felt that it would weaken the protection necessary for essentially unprofitable bus routes , mainly those in rural areas . |
| 24 | It is no less important in that it marked the return of Ho Chi Minh to Indochina after an absence of 30 years . |
| 25 | The accountability debate was , however , important in that it highlighted a need for systematic evaluation in education . |
| 26 | He alleged that the statute in question was invalid in that it conflicted with a fundamental principle of natural law , the right of free speech . |
| 27 | Inspector Mick Barry , of Witham police , said at first officers thought the two older youths may have led the nine-year-old on but it turned out he played a full part in all the crimes . |
| 28 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 29 | Gunfire sounded like Chinese fireworks , and the great beast shrugged off the hurt as if it had been inconvenienced by gnats . |
| 30 | The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s . |