Example sentences of "in [Wh det] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 2 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 3 | To describe self-governed perceptual sequences , Kant gave the example of scanning the front elevation of a building ; in doing which we determine what we see and the order in which we see it — roof , front-door , top-left-hand window , and so forth . |
| 4 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 5 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 6 | However indirectly related to sensory experience a laboratory quantification of a particular form of energy may be , in the end the rate of exchange between one form of energy and another — the way in which we compare the quantity of one with the quantity of another - reposes upon the gold standard of subjectivity . |
| 7 | It is not something impelled like a machine by a little egoistic inside ’ ; and again , ‘ deadness , in the limited sense in which we use that word , is the first condition of art . |
| 8 | Such are the times in which we live that the decision to leave his expletives unbleeped prompted tabloid news stories but , really , the programme was quite intensely moral . |
| 9 | The only way in which we can help is having a Labour government that has a policy to secure verifiable arms reductions . |
| 10 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 11 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 12 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 13 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 14 | ‘ The next parliament will not serve merely as a forum for making political statements but rather as a national institute in which we will all take part in formulating the country 's policies , ’ he said on television before leaving on a three-nation tour as part of Middle East peace efforts . |
| 15 | Later that day , 15 Oct , at The Questors Theatre in Ealing , he will be the guest of honour at a fund-raising event for the Questors in which we are promised the opportunity to ‘ find out what makes a critic , what are his prejudices and his preferences , and what are his fears and hopes for British ( and world ) theatre . ’ |
| 16 | Together , dearest Emma , we can rise Above the petty heckling of our foes T is all hot air , and hot air can be used To hoist aloft the balloon in which we soar ! |
| 17 | ‘ In the world in which we live there are bound to be periods of turbulence on the foreign exchange markets from time to time . |
| 18 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We do not think a thought ’ in the same sense in which we ‘ think Herodotus is unreliable ’ . |
| 20 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 21 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 22 | The public has always wanted good British films , not the million-pound ‘ epics , which so often bore them , but the good , honest , unpretentious stories in which we have shown such promise — the records of everyday life . |
| 23 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 24 | The fact that the film was hailed by critics as a triumphant piece of realism , even though the woman 's choice between a passionate affair and married contentment is as melodramatic as that offered by any Gainsborough melodrama , reflects the kudos Lean had acquired as director of In Which We Serve , the critic 's touchstone for quality . |
| 25 | In the US , thanks to an agreement that major distributors would give eight films annually a full circuit release , pictures such as The 49th Parallel , Target for Tonight and In Which We Serve had done remarkable business . |
| 26 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 27 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 29 | So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself . |
| 30 | But though desire determines actions in this way , there nevertheless is , argues Hobbes , a sense in which we can be free . |