Example sentences of "[adj] way [prep] which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 2 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |
| 3 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 4 | There are a number of different ways in which we can measure wealth . |
| 5 | There are many words and phrases which can be put into this category in English , and many different ways in which they can be classified . |
| 6 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 7 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 8 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 9 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 10 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 11 | There is another way in which we can inspect the growth of population , and that is by seeing it at work in all the various classes of society . |
| 12 | There is another way in which we can confirm the role played by climate and the carbon atom in the creation of organic life . |
| 13 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 14 | Here is another way in which you can lord it over you players . |
| 15 | This is one clear way in which we can recognise the clear distinction between the form of human personality and the form of divine personality . |
| 16 | It shows us some simple ways in which we can all join the drive for a better environment . |
| 17 | There are somewhat similar ways in which it would be odd to express assent to a question to show that one shared the speaker 's wondering . |
| 18 | Here , then , is the second way in which we can connect the Marxist or political economy perspectives on urban sociology to our particular interest in human nature . |
| 19 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 20 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 21 | Is there an objective way in which we can judge which is the truly best strategy , in a more general and less arbitrary sense ? |
| 22 | The idea of ‘ subjective meaning ’ is a loose one , covering all ways in which someone may act deliberately or expressively and excluding only reflex actions . |
| 23 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 24 | Does he agree that one of the most useful ways in which we can give them know-how is to tell them how we managed , in the light of the Maastricht agreement , to reject the principle of monetary union ? |
| 25 | There are many ways in which we could meet these specifications in a computer model . |
| 26 | This book suggests many ways in which we can use video in a different way to viewing television . |
| 27 | In a study by Mayes into various measures of testing the readability of guides , he found that guides were jargon-filled , unappealing etc and suggested many ways in which they could be made more readable . |
| 28 | Pointes can and do have an enormous part to play in classical ballet because there are so many ways in which they can be used to give character and variety to a role . |
| 29 | Pressed flowers make marvellous decorations for stationery products , and there are a great many ways in which they can be used . |
| 30 | With modern varieties there are so many ways in which you can grow them , such as unheated greenhouses , outdoor patio pots and tubs and trailing bounteous croppers for hanging baskets . |