Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 2 | ‘ The English — and of course I do n't want you to take this personally — the English are peculiar in that they have very little culinary self-esteem . |
| 3 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 4 | ( iii ) Lastly , non-causal nomic connections are stated by numerical laws different in that they do specify how a magnitude varies with time . |
| 5 | Molloy and Carroll ( 1992 ) adopt an approach which is designed to assist comparison with Bourner and Hamed 's study , although their operational definition is somewhat different in that they include the following categories : no formal qualifications ; other non standard entrants ( this is a range of qualifications which includes professional , nursing , technical and secretarial ) ; O-levels or one A-level ; one OU credit ; Access . |
| 6 | Cichlid keepers are no different in that they want to breed their fish — or they hope their fish will breed for them . |
| 7 | American Express and Diners Club ( sometimes called ‘ travel and entertainment ’ cards ) an chiefly different in that you have to pay what you owe in full each month , and no formal limit is set on how much credit you can get . |
| 8 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 9 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 12 | in this particular twelve month period your budget estimate would be wrong in that you needed to pay the residence back a hundred and eight pounds |
| 13 | This is the sense that is represented by the title Aesop 's Fables : used of unrealistic stories ( Aesop 's fables are unrealistic in that they present anthropomorphized beasts and birds ) which may nonetheless present a valuable and pertinent moral to their readers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The nutter is acceptable in that he demonstrates to other fans what they should not do , and provides living proof of their own propriety . |
| 16 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 17 | Merrill Lynch 's statistics are interesting in that they indicate that companies prefer to give expatriates coming to Britain financial assistance towards buying property rather than towards renting it . |
| 18 | BL Additional MS 10289 , which contains a copy of Jouglet , is more interesting in that it shows distinct traces of particularly Norman interest , beginning for instance with a long Roman du Mont St Michel , St Michael 's Mount being situated on the coast of Normandy . |
| 19 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 22 | Only Carling of the three-quarters did not get on the scoresheet , ironic in that he had one of his finest games for England . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language . |
| 25 | Victoria was more intelligent than most of them but typical in that she had conscientiously allowed herself to be educated without imagining any particular use for her good and well-trained mind . |
| 26 | However that may be , it is , surely , part of the very meaning of being rational that one tries to organise one 's mental stance towards the world so that it is consistent and comprehensive , consistent in that its elements do not frustrate each other , comprehensive in that it covers one 's stance to as wide as possible a range of phenomena . |
| 27 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 28 | Although Landry makes clear that the shoe does not always fit , this sort of approach , as suggested above , is dangerous in that it shapes what a scholar is willing to see . |
| 29 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 30 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |