Example sentences of "whereas in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’ |
| 2 | In some of these the emphasis is upon environmental change in the Quaternary whereas in others they have accommodated investigations of contemporary environmental processes as well . |
| 3 | In some places there is 95–97 per cent coverage , whereas in others they get little over 75 per cent . ’ |
| 4 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 5 | Many of R.S. 's employees were able to become first-time house buyers in the new location , whereas in London they could not have afforded property . |
| 6 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 7 | As a result of deflation , productivity in Britain went down last year , whereas in Germany it went up . |
| 8 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 9 | One of the big differences I discovered between the East and the West End was that in Whitechapel the names of debtors were chalked up on a slate , whereas in Chelsea they opened an account . |
| 10 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 11 | An interesting difference is that in ants the workers are all sterile females , whereas in termites they are sterile males and sterile females . |
| 12 | … the choruses at Mannheim are weak and poor , whereas in Paris they are powerful and excellent , the choruses he [ Holzbauer ] has composed would not be effective . |
| 13 | Certainly there are differences , especially in the better development of marine sediments in the American Pennsylvanian , but these in a way have obscured the resemblances ; for work in America has concentrated on the marine fossils , whereas in Europe we have usually been forced to fall back on the non-marine faunas and floras . |
| 14 | We tend to believe that it is only in Iran that people who commit adultery are stoned , whereas in Europe it 's the other way round . |
| 15 | In Liverpool things have been restored whereas in Manchester they just crush the past without a second thought . |
| 16 | In Leeds , aliens of whatever background were given a B label , whereas in Manchester they were designated grade C. Several tribunals put the unemployed into B category , telling them to apply for a transfer to C when they found jobs . |
| 17 | It pretends that the court is able to investigate those reasons in great depth , whereas in practice it is not able to do so , and in any event that investigation is not going to save the marriage . |
| 18 | The foreigner thought that fares were not paid , whereas in truth they were . |
| 19 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 20 | I am sure that the wider world think of us as all being terribly left wing , whereas in fact we 're awfully liberal and conservative and with a spectrum distribution of political allegiances which I suspect are very little different from the community as a whole . |
| 21 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 22 | The whole elaborate farce had been staged so that it would seem that the wanted miscreants had been arrested , whereas in fact they were still free . |
| 23 | Investors will , however , assume that their forecasts of demand were too high ( whereas in fact they were too low ) and revise their investment rates down still further . |
| 24 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 25 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 26 | It can be confusing when you 're first trying to identify this plant because some books insist that the flowers have five petals , whereas in fact they can have four . |
| 27 | Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 28 | ‘ Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 29 | This is a sinister view of the world of simulacra and simulation described by Jean Baudrillard , the world in which people have the illusion of being actively hooked into vast information networks , whereas in fact they are only the passive recipients of processed data , more and more isolated in front of their televisions and their computer screens ( 1970:186–91 , 1981:121–31 ) . |
| 30 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |