Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Regulation can also be categorised as formal or informal in that it can be set according to statutes and rules , or set informally through self regulation or some form of implicit agreement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 6 | In 1991 case management was renamed ‘ care management ’ in a guidance document from the Department of Health and Social Services Inspectorate , on the grounds that the term ‘ case ’ was demeaning to the individual and misleading in that it is the care , and not the person , that is being managed . |
| 7 | The result was seen as crucial in that it provided Sandiford with a personal mandate to govern . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |