Example sentences of "in [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
| 2 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 3 | This obviously adds great weight to its publications , in that they clearly have wide acceptance amongst those involved in the building process . |
| 4 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 5 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 6 | Companies of this type are , in my opinion , real bureau in that they simply process the material you supply and do n't seek to interfere with the design . |
| 7 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 8 | The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick . |
| 9 | As in Gassendi and Locke , the ‘ new philosophy ’ was often anti-sceptical in intent , and its advocates were often not complete materialists , in that they genuinely thought to find room for religion , God , and the soul . |
| 10 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 11 | Not only were the staffing ratios higher in community-based services but the observation data also suggests that the staff were ‘ delivered ’ , in that they actually spent more time physically in the presence of clients ( staff were present in 91 per cent of observations in the houses and 86 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses compared with 74 per cent in the hospital settings ) . |
| 12 | ( Paragraph indentations occur between sentences 6 and 7 and 7 and 8. ) 1 Reflex actions are processes which occur within the body and are important to us in that they sometimes prevent us being seriously injured . |
| 13 | Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’ |
| 14 | Labour Members have changed their minds and their policies on Europe at least seven times , but in that they still lag behind the changes of mind of their leader . |
| 15 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 16 | The deposits produced by Vulcanian eruptions are similar to those produced by Surtseyan eruptions , in that they too consist of highly-fragmented material , with a large proportion of it less than one millimetre in size . |
| 17 | While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda . |
| 18 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
| 19 | ‘ But the machine saves a great deal of time in that it automatically produces statistics and its print-outs clearly show patterns in the absences . |
| 20 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 21 | Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant . |
| 22 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 23 | The bushy , white-edged ‘ Madame Salleron ’ is a fine edger for summer beds and is unusual in that it never flowers . |
| 24 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 25 | However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation . |
| 26 | I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities . |
| 27 | 1982 ) in that she correctly assessed her interlocutors ' speech behaviour and was able to converge towards it . |
| 28 | This Airacomet is significant to the Museum in that she actually flew from March while assigned to the 420th Base Unit , Continental Air Command , during that Unit 's posting to March Field in late 1945 . |
| 29 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 30 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |