Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 2 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That certainly is a very hopeful suggestion which we 're most interested in because it does look as if the P L C will succeed and if it does then we shall have our full seven million pounds . |
| 5 | BL Additional MS 10289 , which contains a copy of Jouglet , is more interesting in that it shows distinct traces of particularly Norman interest , beginning for instance with a long Roman du Mont St Michel , St Michael 's Mount being situated on the coast of Normandy . |
| 6 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 7 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However that may be , it is , surely , part of the very meaning of being rational that one tries to organise one 's mental stance towards the world so that it is consistent and comprehensive , consistent in that its elements do not frustrate each other , comprehensive in that it covers one 's stance to as wide as possible a range of phenomena . |
| 10 | Although Landry makes clear that the shoe does not always fit , this sort of approach , as suggested above , is dangerous in that it shapes what a scholar is willing to see . |
| 11 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The new procedure is simple in that it involves an application form having three parts on the front of it ( the declaration of means being on the back ) , first the information about the applicant and the charge , second a part to be completed by the Sheriff Clerk , and last a part to bc completed by the Local Secretary . |
| 14 | It is thus similar to Warhol 's silk-screens , which problematizes , not just high art , but also the real in that it reveals reality itself to be composed of images . |
| 15 | The Martek Chainsaw Sharpener , a winner of The Daily Mail New Design Blue Ribbon Award , is unique in that it allows the cutting edges of chainsaws to be sharpened ‘ on-bar ’ — utilising a power drill . |
| 16 | Kaprun is unique in that it offers summer skiing , along with a multitude of other activities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The L & NWR is unique in that it manufactures its own accumulators for carriage lighting plants . |
| 19 | The forest is unique in that it has affinities both with the central African rainforest to the north , and the coastal forests of Mozambique . |
| 20 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |
| 21 | The dun at Trudernish is exceptional in that it shows signs of vitrification . |
| 22 | The dun at Trudernish is exceptional in that it shows signs of vitrification . |
| 23 | The B-side , ‘ Sunburn ’ , is remarkable in that it appears to have less than one chord on it and happily informs us that ‘ everybody has to die ’ before going completely mad forever . |
| 24 | The action design of these three is remarkable in that it contains all the essential elements of the action of the modern grand piano , including the check . |
| 25 | This bacterium is unusual in that it tolerates extremely acid conditions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But reference to liability is valuable in that it emphasises that shareholders qua members may be under obligations to the company as well as having rights against it . |
| 28 | THE new campaign to combat solvent abuse , launched in London yesterday , is welcome in that it brings the problem before the public once more . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 638 is unsatisfactory in that it involves a legal fiction . |