Example sentences of "in [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 2 | I was lucky in that we were able to spend time away from Berlin . |
| 3 | We are at a disadvantage in Britain in that we do not have a revolutionary doctrine to preach : a vivid message that promises an unattainable millennium . |
| 4 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 5 | Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments . |
| 6 | In that we see Herbert 's more easy-going temperament . |
| 7 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 8 | We 're lucky , outsiders like me , in that we 've got the Franks Report on the origins of the war , which covers the seventeen-year build-up , the era of non-decision-taking almost , which led to the Argentine invasion of 1982 . |
| 9 | It 's much like the relationship between GM and Lotus in that we do co-operative engineering work with it , but we do n't get actively involved in the day-to-day operation of that company . |
| 10 | The black-chromed , Telecaster-knob controls are unusual in that we 've got two volume controls , one for each pickup , and a master tone control . |
| 11 | We have assumed that all objective functions are ‘ desirable ’ in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're lucky in that we are a band that uses singing , ’ he muses . |
| 13 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
| 14 | ‘ But we are confident in that we respect rather than fear their talents . |
| 15 | It has particular interest in that we all know what the word means and yet none of us know what curiosity actually is . |
| 16 | Without knowing it we became a political organization in that we shared an experience of oppression , a sense of direction , and the will and the confidence to act . |
| 17 | Continued next week with reader participation ‘ abuse bubbles ’ so you can put thing in that we are n't allowed to … |
| 18 | There had been , albeit tenuously , a link between us in that we were both coached at one time by Scottish coach , Bill Moss , although in my case the association was a relatively fleeting one , of which , quite sensibly , he has no recollection . |
| 19 | This is a good quality in that we will fight on despite terrible injuries , Sir . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're a model independent band , in that we 're slightly outside the norm , ’ Mig offers . |
| 21 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 22 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 23 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 24 | There also is an empirical problem of understanding how support operates between grandparents and grandchildren , in that we must disentangle it from support given to and by the intervening generation . |
| 25 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
| 26 | Once again this is a limited way of examining health in that we are assuming that the distribution of health is the inverse of the pattern displayed by morbidity . |
| 27 | Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army . |
| 28 | We have a further distinction from the private sector in that we have a prior commitment . |
| 29 | It is important to understand that language is used , in fiction , to project a world " beyond language " , in that we use not only our knowledge of language , the meanings of words etc , but also our general knowledge of the real world , to furnish it . |
| 30 | We have an advantage in that we can learn from other countries . |