Example sentences of "important [prep] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed .
2 This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality .
3 This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity .
4 Nonetheless the Social Charter remains important in that it provides the underpinning for the implementation of an action programme of over 40 measures which will be prepared by the Commission ( COM(89) 568 ) .
5 It is no less important in that it marked the return of Ho Chi Minh to Indochina after an absence of 30 years .
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