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

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1 The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble .
2 The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler .
3 Here art orders our vision , deliberately interventionist in that it presents those uncertainties and anxieties of childhood where difference makes life a misery whilst providing poignant images for the artist .
4 Whereas the compulsory purchase order enquiry is fairly passive , relying on party initiative to inform the minister , the investigative enquiry is more active in that it seeks out information .
5 [ … ] In passing , it should be noted that the conceptual framework developed by Williamson claims to provide an explanation of organizational forms in general , in that it seeks to explain the circumstances in which a variety of institutional forms — including classical market contracts , non-standard market contracts , government regulatory agencies , and trades unions — have , in turn , a comparative advantage in the organization of resources .
6 It was important in that it signified the gulf between the police and the policed .
7 It was all quite extraordinary ; but it was also exhilarating , in that it explored new expressive possibilities in the concerto while maintaining utter idiomatic integrity .
8 There is an advantage to management too , in that it reduces the dependence of the machine on consistent human performance .
9 Kaprun is unique in that it offers summer skiing , along with a multitude of other activities .
10 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 .
11 His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance .
12 As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) .
13 The reply of the Government representative , Viscount Gage , was very unsatisfactory , in that it had been prepared beforehand , and did not at all deal with the points raised by Lord Charnwood .
14 De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " .
15 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 .
16 The above form is essentially objective , in that it relates to the objects of local government , e.g. education , health , highways , etc .
17 It will be aware of its master , in that it hears and smells him , and of its own exertions , in that it is awake , but it will not be aware that it recognises him , for this is of the order of tomorrow 's delayed return — a linguistic belief of which dumb brutes are incapable .
18 It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook .
19 The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s .
20 The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . )
21 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 .
22 The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment .
23 Die Entführung is unlike any previous Singspiel , in that it represents a fusion of the technical resources of Italian opera seria with the homely tunefulness of the Singspiel .
24 It is impossible to predict when QT prolongation will be beneficial , in that it represents a prolongation of ventricular refractoriness , and when it will be harmful .
25 This is deliberate , in that it helps to identify key questions about support in families which need to be addressed in later chapters .
26 The notion of an internal lexicon is particularly powerful in that it helps to explain many of the phenomena associated with word recognition .
27 This activity is doubly advantageous in that it helps to meet the needs of the more elderly for a variety of services and also helps to give the younger elderly person a sense of usefulness , a strong interest and in some cases a degree of insight and preparation for the inevitable transition to a greater ageing that must be faced .
28 Simply formulating a title of some sort can be a useful achievement , in that it helps you decide how you want to focus your writing .
29 Moreover , the global index of either victimization or recorded offences can be misleading , in that it conceals quite large variations in the trends for specific offences .
30 Limiting , in that it conceals a covert gender specificity which operates to justify women 's continued exclusion — whether from public life or philosophy .
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