Example sentences of "unusual [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bushy , white-edged ‘ Madame Salleron ’ is a fine edger for summer beds and is unusual in that it never flowers . |
| 2 | This bacterium is unusual in that it tolerates extremely acid conditions . |
| 3 | Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant . |
| 4 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 5 | The design was somewhat unusual in that it used a power MOSFET rather than the usual 2N3055 ( or similar ) series-pass transistor . |
| 6 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 7 | The resulting conflict , the Battle of Grunberg , was unusual in that it consisted almost entirely of mounted troops on both sides , the best of the Empire 's knights versus the most mobile part of the Orc horde . |
| 8 | The retina is unusual in that it can be moved to scan the scene . |
| 9 | The Taipei job was only unusual in that it would be a new experience to work in a country where English was not the official language , but the presence of a large population of Westerners , the bulk of them American , ensured high listenership figures even with the competition provided by the existence of other English-language stations . |
| 10 | In one boot was thrust a riding crop , unusual in that it was as long as a spear and tipped with tiny steel barbs . |