Example sentences of "in that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked . |
| 2 | The Court 's decision is based on the fact that RTE 's refusal to license was arbitrary , in that its sole rationale was to preserve RTE 's monopoly in the publication of weekly information about its programmes : the Court said there was no justification in terms of the specific needs of the broadcasting sector or the activity of publishing television magazines . |
| 3 | Its morale had recovered far too well , in that its officers and instructors were turning to a doctrine of offensive warfare at all costs . |
| 4 | A popular paper differed from this in that its large circulation ensured that newsprint and ink was its major cost category ( 36% ) , followed by production costs ( 30% ) and editorial costs ( 13% ) . |
| 5 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 6 | And Israel only knows that its " way is hidden from Yahweh " ( A ) in that its cause is ignored , it does not receive its rights ( B ) . |
| 7 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 8 | It was compatible also in that its procedures were much more closely aligned to historical scholarship than to critical evaluation , while at the same time enabling engagement in detailed analyses of literary language . |
| 9 | Such a social psychology would be intrinsically applied , in that its theories and key concepts would be applicable only to particular , historical contexts . |
| 10 | The County Court is an inferior court , in that its jurisdiction is limited . |
| 11 | The Quartet is distinct from most examples of this genre , however , in that its focus is firmly fixed on its own status within a world which is increasingly under the control of non-verbal forms of communication . |
| 12 | Its revolutionariness is , however , only incidentally political : in that it evolved outside the universities in marginal academic institutions , and in that its development during the 1960s reached a kind of peak in the years 1967 — 8 , thus coinciding with the événements of 1968 . |
| 13 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 14 | It is worth observing , furthermore , that even a committed liberal humanist teacher like Barbara Hardy found that opportunities to teach " against the environment were rare ; perhaps particularly so in that her own college ( Birkbeck ) worked within the examination-dominated regime of the University of London . |
| 15 | I was lucky in that we were able to spend time away from Berlin . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In that we see Herbert 's more easy-going temperament . |
| 20 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have assumed that all objective functions are ‘ desirable ’ in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're lucky in that we are a band that uses singing , ’ he muses . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ But we are confident in that we respect rather than fear their talents . |
| 28 | It has particular interest in that we all know what the word means and yet none of us know what curiosity actually is . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Continued next week with reader participation ‘ abuse bubbles ’ so you can put thing in that we are n't allowed to … |