Example sentences of "of [noun pl] in [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and invite the hearer to an exchange of views in which he will agree with him or otherwise in belief or attitude . |
| 2 | This is the first of a short series of programmes in which we shall be taking a look at some of these unfortunate happenings , and asking questions such as , ‘ To what extent can they predicted ? ’ and ‘ How can they best be coped with ? ’ |
| 3 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 4 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 5 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 6 | Yes , the Prime Minister has negotiated a set of circumstances in which it will be possible for employers in Britain to pay lower wages and work their employees for longer hours in worse conditions than their competitors on mainland Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 8 | The previous section depicted all sorts of situations in which it would be natural to describe animals or human babies as recognising something — names , parents , fellow-creatures , their own bodies ( but not their ‘ self ’ ) — and it was concluded that there was nothing out of order in so doing . |
| 9 | There are a number of ways in which they might become interested in the subject . |
| 10 | Whites and Asians entertain a variety of ways in which they can advance , usually locating their careers in some long-term perspective and thus making security an important consideration . |
| 11 | and my Lord in relation the provisions of the Lloyd 's Act and the er byelaws that are linked into solvency and the maintenance of er , er adequate fund and the payment of policy holders , in my submission constitute the implementation of that directive and those obligations er in , er relation to the society and that is perfectly compatible with community law er it is er the states er have variety of ways in which they can give effect er to community obligations . |
| 12 | Most of all , they give us a unique insight into the quality of family relationships in later life , and the variety of ways in which they could be constructed . |
| 13 | They do n't have to hunt foxes to do that the motion , the main motion not the amendment suggests drag hunting er they could , there there my , I think it means proper drag hunting not one er to previously er l l laid out er objectives er they could race each other , they can have treasure hunts , er there are plenty of ways in which they could enjoy riding . |
| 14 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 15 | The top of the tree consists of ways in which we can sense , such as archaeology , psychometry , dowsing and aesthetic response . |
| 16 | There are a number of ways in which we can help relieve the financial strain and start you off in your chosen career with no unnecessary money worries . |
| 17 | If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence . |
| 18 | There are a number of ways in which we can link Weberian theory to our particular interests . |
| 19 | Perhaps an illustration can make this difference clear : faced with the word saucer to read aloud , there are only a limited number of ways in which it can be read , given the rules of English orthography . |
| 20 | 2 Think of ways in which you could change it to make it really different : funnier more exciting or dramatic stranger 3 Think the story through in your head . |
| 21 | So you , what you 've got to do , is to think of ways in which you can translate the technicalities into simple language that other , that ordinary people can understand and appreciate what it is you 're doing and why it 's important . |
| 22 | The therapist encouraged Pamela to make a list of ways in which she would like her parents to change in terms of providing her with greater freedom . |
| 23 | However , she had encountered difficulties in drawing up a list of ways in which she would like her parents to be more tolerant . |
| 24 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 25 | ‘ And I can certainly think of ways in which I can talk about this in such a way that Mrs Jones doing her washing up , Mr Brown driving to work , E H Os idling time in their offices , listen to the radio , can actually listen and enjoy it . ’ |
| 26 | Outside directors and company bosses disagreed most strongly over whether non-executives should help develop business strategy , and over the sort of decisions in which they should have the final say . |
| 27 | Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce . |
| 28 | As for other types of accidents in which you can help yourself , it is useful to have a good first aid box handy . |
| 29 | But because it is deictic it is context-sensitive , and there are a number of ways of using the utterance The sun shines brightly and a number of contexts in which it might occur . |
| 30 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |