Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 This pivotal role is much more obvious in matriarchical societies in which it is accepted that the mother or grandmother must make the final decision about such expenditures .
2 The Opposition parties have 20 days in each session in which they can select the topic for debate .
3 Today 's objective is to focus on its core chemical operations groups such as adhesives and paints and to be among the leaders in each business in which it operates .
4 There lurked in his character , as with all the best Welshmen , an element of Dylan Thomas 's ‘ No Good Boyo ’ , and his conversation was designed to provoke , particularly in political matters about which he felt strongly
5 There lurked in his character , as with all the best Welshmen , an element of Dylan Thomas 's ‘ No Good Boyo ’ , and his conversation was designed to provoke , particularly in political matters about which he felt strongly .
6 The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place .
7 Later cases have also insisted that if an employee is to be prevented from working in that area in which he has gained great expertise then the covenant is unlikely to be upheld .
8 Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past .
9 Politicians and administrators were ill-equipped to handle the problems of working men caught up in bloody enterprise for which they were not responsible .
10 My second 's in BROWN COAT for which I 'm renowned .
11 We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained .
12 Those who were quite recently converted began to take responsibility in different areas in which they had not seen a need prior to our departure .
13 In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) .
14 These two States have undertaken by treaty to accept the obligations contained in another treaty to which they are third parties , in recognition that any attempt at a lasting settlement is unlikely to succeed without their co-operation .
15 which provided the telephone lines in these trials , is now involved in another experiment in which it has teamed up with the CBS television network .
16 On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past .
17 This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe .
18 Furthermore , the twentieth century may be regarded from one aspect as the culminating stage in a process whereby the world has been transformed , not into a single political system , but into a single political arena in which there are no longer isolated and autonomous units , but all states and political movements are enmeshed in global politics within which they exhibit varying degrees of dependence or independence .
19 But it has has dropped the commitment to increase NHS spending by 3 per cent a year in real terms on which it fought the 1987 general election .
20 It is not only the anomalies in these tables to which I wish to draw attention but the assumptions on which they are based .
21 Except in these fantasies in which they let
22 I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not able to join us in Committee because I have enjoyed his contributions in previous Committees of which he has been a member .
23 The disk is round , slightly domed , covered in large plates amongst which it is possible to distinguish the centrodorsal and primary radial plates ; diameter up to 8 mm .
24 On one occasion he is said to have decorated the whole of the College in three days after which he could still outlast anyone on the dance floor .
25 One of the earliest events in Mercurian history of which we have any record is the widespread obliteration of craters near the end of formation , or soon afterwards .
26 In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’
27 However , the Directive does not apply to holdings in open-ended investment companies or other collective investment undertakings ; nor does it apply to holdings in companies incorporated outside the EC , although such companies which are listed on a stock exchange in a member state must make a public announcement of changes in major holdings of which they become aware ( even though there is no actual notification requirement ) .
28 In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated .
29 ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’
30 Zander have no problems sorting out live baits in coloured water in which I would not fancy my chances for pike using that method .
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