Example sentences of "[prep] that [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The results were encouraging in that we saw the benefits of assessments which enabled gaps in skills to be identified , ’ said , head of functional training at Courtaulds ' Training , Education and Development Centre at Woodside in the UK . |
| 2 | In that we see the one coloured drive right ? |
| 3 | The ideological themes and counter-themes may at any one time resemble undeveloped seeds , in that they contain the possibilities for future argumentative responses , including those son of reversals when the Side of the Other is to be taken . |
| 4 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 5 | Banks make a major contribution to industrial financing which is not shown in their lending figures , in that they facilitate the leasing of equipment . |
| 6 | The latter are useful in that they shorten the time taken to learn the concept . |
| 7 | Universality refers to the fact that totally different systems can exhibit the same route to chaos — the same not just in that they show the same broad features , but very closely the same including quantitative details . |
| 8 | Are , then , cell signals instructive in that they tell the cell something it does not already know ? |
| 9 | These identifications are part of the reason for their continued autonomy from the lowlands , in that they prevent the Buid from developing internal hierarchies which could be manipulated by more powerful state societies . |
| 10 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 11 | Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related : |
| 12 | Primate societies are remarkable among relatively long-lived and large-brained animal groups in that they have the capacity to store and retrieve much independently acquired information about their environment . |
| 13 | Dr Maurice Hankey , land use specialist with the Scottish Landowners ' Federation , said : ‘ Water services in Scotland are unique in Great Britain in that they have the right to come in and lay a water sewerage pipe without the landowner 's consent . |
| 14 | These niches or recesses in the north gallery posed a big problem in that they dissolve the directionality of the main axis and compartmentalise the space , which accounts for the difference between the north and the south gallery . |
| 15 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 16 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |
| 17 | Matrices of transition probabilities such as those given in the earlier examples are useful in that they summarize the behaviour over time of the system under study . |
| 18 | Molloy and Carroll ( 1992 ) adopt an approach which is designed to assist comparison with Bourner and Hamed 's study , although their operational definition is somewhat different in that they include the following categories : no formal qualifications ; other non standard entrants ( this is a range of qualifications which includes professional , nursing , technical and secretarial ) ; O-levels or one A-level ; one OU credit ; Access . |
| 19 | Like trade unions , occupations and professions are ‘ interest groups ’ , in that they represent the interests of their members and of their clients . |
| 20 | Finally , such approaches are , again , inherently conservative in that they underpin the prevailing common sense about the nature and causes of unemployment , they foreclose discussion on any alternative analyses , and they integrate and undermine potentially ‘ deviant ’ political stances amongst the unemployed . |
| 21 | They are part of an elitist model of science , in that they underestimate the contribution of applied scientists to the whole . |
| 22 | Settlement policies have a complementary role , in that they affect the distribution of employment , services and housing within rural areas . |
| 23 | They exert an influence over the replication of the DNA that caused them , in that they affect the survival and reproduction of their bodies — which contain that same DNA , and whose fate is therefore shared by the DNA . |
| 24 | It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed . |
| 25 | There is an advantage to management too , in that it reduces the dependence of the machine on consistent human performance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 28 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Second , it stresses the importance of the immediate context of the poem over the distinction between ‘ metaphoric ’ and ‘ proper ’ , in that it analyses the pre-referential dynamic of the metaphoric process . |