Example sentences of "[prep] that they [verb] [adv] " 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 | ( b ) Hybrid Bills Where a Public Bill ( dealt with below ) contains provisions which savour of a Private Bill in that they refer specifically to a particular person or locality , the House may , if it so wishes , before second reading refer the Bill to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills . |
| 3 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre of 1282 two of the verderers were convicted of falsifying their rolls of presentments ‘ in that they took out the names of the living , and put in the names of the dead ’ . |
| 4 | The first of these elements is that budgets should be objective in that they relate directly to fulfilling the objectives of the organisation . |
| 5 | As early as 1964 one could recognise mods — who resembled skinheads in that they had short , cropped hair , wore Ben Sherman shirts and Levis . |
| 6 | They differ from causal circumstance and effect in that they lack either or both of the features that give rise to the difference between causal circumstance and effect-the priority of the causal circumstance . |
| 7 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 8 | Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time . |
| 9 | However , some research methods , along with the data produced by them , are approach- or theory-specific in that they developed within , or have come to represent , a particular theoretical tradition or perspective . |
| 10 | Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain . |
| 11 | Certainly these associative processes can just as readily be interpreted as constituting an associative mechanism for categorization or concept formation in that they allow physically different stimuli to come to be treated in the same way . |
| 12 | At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply . |
| 13 | In that they have not taken the correct figures . |
| 14 | But the Austrians , an efficient , polite and cultured people , are backward in that they have not yet advanced to the school uniform . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | This is because less-than-fully-established senses are lexicologically almost indistinguishable from fully established ones , in that they enter largely the same range of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of meaning ( the sentences cited above , of course , show that they are not absolutely identical ) . |
| 17 | The dates are relevant in that they merge in with meetings and other interactions between the BYU and the University of Utah team and with the developing programme of the latter group . |
| 18 | The , they 're still , they 're , they 're not active in that they do n't actually progress your department do they ? |
| 19 | Laws introduced to regulate corporate behaviour differ from most criminal laws in that they do not centre on the results of the breaking of the particular regulation . |
| 20 | Yeasts are different from other fungi , in that they do not usually form hyphae , but exist as tiny egg-shaped cells . |
| 21 | It is always the most convenient for my guests in that they do not have to drive in the dark , and they can have a much more leisurely lunch , without worrying about the time , as they would in the evening over dinner . |
| 22 | Yes , in that they do not go out like a candle on death ; so far natural justice is satisfied . |
| 23 | On the other hand , they are employees in that they do not own the organisation for which they work , they are salaried agents , and they are subject to superior authority . |
| 24 | The auk tribe are sea-birds in the true sense , in that they do not need the land at all outside the nesting season . |
| 25 | These differ from those of the Nuer in that they do not fuse together into a single , all-pervasive deity . |
| 26 | In many cases they seem to be neither , in that they do not have a direct or specific relationship with the labour market ; nor do they fit into the conventional , specialized academic categories . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Assignments differ from practical exercises in that they do not necessarily involve strict adherence to a prescribed procedure and they are not concerned exclusively with manual skills . |
| 29 | In some ways , postnominal attributives are also relatively straightforward ; thus it is perfectly clear that they are like ordinary prenominal attributives in that they do not constitute a full sentence with the noun or noun phrase that precedes them , and that they are part of the same entity-identifying phrase . |
| 30 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |