Example sentences of "in [Wh det] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crystal ball in which one can call up the past ? |
| 2 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |
| 3 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 4 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 5 | There is perhaps only one situation in which one can envisage the majority speaking , and it is not a voice which one wants to hear . |
| 6 | The other interesting mixed show this week is the Bluecoat Christmas Annual , in which one may sense the up-and-coming nature of work in all media by Liverpool artists . |
| 7 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |
| 8 | A disastrous war in which one 's country is so unprepared it 's a push-over for the other side . |
| 9 | The manner in which one says or writes things , those public and therefore never totally adequate ways in which we seek to express our private or inner emotions , always has an implicit as well as an explicit content . |
| 10 | In any case in which one penetrates beyond the directives or the rules to their underlying justifications one has to discount the independent weight of the rule or the directive as a reason for action . |
| 11 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 12 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 13 | The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation . |
| 14 | There are Wild Water Rapids : a long , winding channel of agreeably-warm water , down which one is swept by gravity and the force of the current , and in which one can pretend to be in the closing scene of The Towering Inferno . |
| 15 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 16 | Nor does their command of verbal symbolism , the only medium in which one can even pretend to be describing inward states objectively , give them any advantage over painters and musicians . |
| 17 | But they will not have the pressures of other couples in which one is divorced . |
| 18 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 19 | To misjudge the time in which one lived might prove to be disastrous ’ ( Nolan 1976:74 ) . |
| 20 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 21 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |
| 22 | But this language game ( the concept of the red visual impression ) is parasitic on the one in which one reacts , without more ado , to ‘ What colour is it ? ’ with ‘ Red ’ . |
| 23 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 24 | It is to surrender all purposeful hope of changing , through literature or any other means , the world in which one is bound to live . |
| 25 | Natural theology , even of Brunner 's qualified kind , could only be a snare and a delusion , a thing in which one ought to have no interest except that properly shown for an abyss beside the path — the interest whose concern is to avoid falling into it . |
| 26 | Crisis in this context describes a period of intensive self-examination in which one 's beliefs and values are re-examined . |
| 27 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
| 28 | This is a case in which one turns to computation in order to verify an impression gained in reading , and in the Appendix ( pp. 85–8 ) I have recorded the results of my count . |
| 29 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 30 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |