Example sentences of "the way in which [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is greater awareness amongst those who work with and for the elderly of the ways in which we manufacture social and economic dependency . |
| 2 | In this respect my position will amount to thinking that there are intrinsically prescriptive features to reality , but this will not be done by blurring the distinction between judgements about how the world is characterised and the ways in which we respond to it , as with McDowell . |
| 3 | Such episodes may , of course , be confused as passing acknowledgements , but the readiness to exchange such signals is one of the ways in which we register the normality of the passing scene and it is when we encounter consistent anomalies in the broadcast that we begin to suspect and perhaps report something odd . |
| 4 | In so doing they begin the process of explaining a phenomenon , reducing it to intelligibility ; of course , that process entails a closing of options , a setting of limits to reality , since understanding is one of the ways in which we control and circumscribe our environment . |
| 5 | We might at least be fair about the ways in which we account for pupils ' behaviour . |
| 6 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 7 | It is more a general feeling that the ways in which we work and consume , trade and invest , obtain our salaries , wages or profits , own property and have entitlements to welfare , are all changing dramatically . |
| 8 | in Ludlow , we 've to the er , the Whitchurch initiative , there 's something going on in , in Lud in Ludlow at present which is particularly education , social service linked at , but at the end of the day that 's also about jobs , two jobs of training , and perhaps one of the ways in which we solve er , land issues erm , and , and of course Craven Arms is now , is now coming up in each profile as needing something done , and I 'm also being approached about the East Water Block Coking where there are particular problems in those areas . |
| 9 | First , it applies to the ways in which we study the brain . |
| 10 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 11 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 12 | The ways in which we say things convey as much as what we say . |
| 13 | Some of the underlying assumptions of the discussion published below , are that before we begin to talk about an international/global unity/movement we need to look at our own situation in this country , at our own ’ political ’ community , which is international in terms of its make up , and the ways in which we operate or fail to operate together . |
| 14 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 15 | Erm and that 's I suppose was the point I was trying to make earlier that al that 's why abusers sometimes find it very easy because they 're able to tap into a lot of the ways in which we treat children um y'know so er |
| 16 | Thus the ways in which we interpret and come to terms with these unpalatable facts of life reveal our deepest and most cherished cultural assumptions . |
| 17 | It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work . |
| 18 | The beatitudes are counter-cultural , because they correct and challenge the ways in which we understand happiness . |
| 19 | They are to be used and shared with other people , and that 's how one of the ways in which we live a Christian life . |
| 20 | If we look at the ways in which we handle daily tasks , we shall probably find a strong ritual element there , and that a fair proportion of the setting-to-rights we do is as much for our personal well-being as from physical necessity . |
| 21 | Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers . |
| 22 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 23 | Furthermore , many women teachers indicated that they had difficulty gaining promotion within the school ( see Burgess ? 1988a ) and talked about the ways in which they experienced sexism and oppression in their day to day work . |
| 24 | Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness . |
| 25 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 26 | Language is only one of the ways in which they communicate and , certainly at the beginning of the novel , not the most important . |
| 27 | But the ways people can best deal with their own stress are as varied as the ways in which they express it . |
| 28 | Employers will be asked to quantify the ways in which they became involved . |
| 29 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 30 | In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations . |