Example sentences of "in [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He graded it an unlikely E7 6c — unlikely in that it is , in all probability , much harder . |
| 4 | Then he moves in , for example to reveal that the young hero-murderer , once the deed was done , had a completely new experience ‘ of infinite loneliness and estrangement ’ ; and that this experience ‘ was most agonising in that it was a sensation rather than knowledge or intellectual understanding , a direct sensation , the most painful sensation he had ever experienced in his life . ’ |
| 5 | But this particular extract is useful for another reason , in that it shows , through the sub-plots which appear within it , the range of issues provoked by the research which respondents were sensitive about . |
| 6 | While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda . |
| 7 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 8 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 9 | As we shall see , the reversal remains inadequate in that it conceives of homophobia in mainly psychosexual terms , and phobic ones at that . |
| 10 | But at this juncture another major problem emerges , in that it is very difficult to demonstrate that there is an established libertarian Conservative tradition with which Thatcherism and the new right can be matched . |
| 11 | One had a fairly strong feeling that part of their motivation was negative , in that it was to exclude the American participation , rather than positive — to build up the company . |
| 12 | This theory of the Asiatic mode of production is complicated and subtle ; it is hardly elaborated in Formen but it is fascinating in that it foreshadows a central concept in Capital . |
| 13 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 14 | But it is totally universal as well in that it is also a simple parable , like Dead Poets Society , about the necessity to follow your instincts and not get trapped by the drive to conform . |
| 15 | It is too important in that it enables children to understand how religion influences individuals and societies , and to explore how people form their own beliefs and values — including atheism . |
| 16 | Sign of the Times was like ‘ What 's Goin' On ’ , in that it 's a pandemonium of anguish and compassion in the face of the impending apocalypse , devoid of any real critique let alone programmatic approach to change . |
| 17 | In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason . |
| 18 | The bushy , white-edged ‘ Madame Salleron ’ is a fine edger for summer beds and is unusual in that it never flowers . |
| 19 | In my own case , it is the knowledge that a Labour victory has the effect of a firework in a stagnant pool , in that it brings all the scum to the surface : not just the trade union ruffians , who have been biding their time , but the Left-wing teachers , the child abuse and anti-smoking fanatics , the Hunt Saboteurs , all the ugly underside of British life will suddenly have a powerful voice in the nation 's councils . |
| 20 | It was all quite extraordinary ; but it was also exhilarating , in that it explored new expressive possibilities in the concerto while maintaining utter idiomatic integrity . |
| 21 | Kaprun is unique in that it offers summer skiing , along with a multitude of other activities . |
| 22 | A response that maintains wide spacing , as in territorial animals or solitary nomads , may be equally social in that it is an interaction between two or more individuals . |
| 23 | In economic policy , for instance , Britain is currently sovereign in that it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer who takes decisions given the circumstances of the day and defends his decisions before Parliament . |
| 24 | But the rest of Frolik 's information was not particularly valuable except in that it convinced the CIA that Britain 's Labour Party was riddled with Communist sympathisers and thus untrustworthy , and helped lead to the suspicions against Prime Minister Harold Wilson . |
| 25 | Their anthology , like Grigson 's , is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration . |
| 26 | Her approach is fruitful in that it explores major issues in women 's poetry of the time and its relation to the literary mainstream . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 29 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 30 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |