Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The nutter is acceptable in that he demonstrates to other fans what they should not do , and provides living proof of their own propriety . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Poverty compelled a return to advertising in the early 1940s but the work of this period is essentially derivative in that it borrows from the artist 's own paintings . |
| 5 | To be fair , the same company does publish David Widgery 's remarkable chronicle of a GP 's East End , Some Lives ! : almost unique in that it speaks from within the culture described , rather than taking day-trips to deprivation . |
| 6 | The young Dutchman is unusual in that he travels with a ‘ mental ’ coach , who practices something called haptotherapy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 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 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |