Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As Ferrini laments , this is a case in which we must be content to practise the ars nesciendi . |
| 2 | I mean there 's no doubt that in human terms that child needs that fifty pence more than you do , but we do n't because I mean there 's a level in which we ca n't because we have to somehow psychologically protect ourselves , and I believe we do do that by convincing ourselves that somehow people out there are not people in the same way that we are . |
| 3 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 4 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 5 | The objective here is to examine the seven most common categories of doubt and to develop a framework in which we can understand and analyse all our specific doubts . |
| 6 | This would provide a framework in which it would be possible to understand automatic processing at the tactical level . |
| 7 | The Plymouth interest , that final point , is I believe as clear as Cornwall 's and the natural links in South Devon would provide the basis for a seat in which it could be better represented . |
| 8 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 9 | This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality . |
| 10 | Distribution is the process of making the right materials available at the right time , in the right quantities and in a condition in which they can be used . |
| 11 | This leaves the vine curled in a heap , a condition in which it will remain until the January or February pruning when all but the one-year-old growth is either cut away or buried for advancing into new vines . |
| 12 | He foresaw a partnership in which he would pursue his sporting and eccentric intellectual interests and keep in close touch with female confidantes . |
| 13 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 14 | Again it had slithered in on his holiday , and , worst , it was a murder in which he would be interrogated . |
| 15 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 16 | Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature . |
| 17 | If the car is low to the ground , it is likely to be extremely difficult for the patient to get in and out , so you might try using a car in which you can raise and lower the suspension . |
| 18 | In the case of hearing and touch this is clear ; strictly speaking , what we hear is not a coach in which we might travel , but rather its noise . |
| 19 | A fast ship was sent to recall de Tourville but fog in the Channel delayed it and the French prepared , all unknowing , for a battle in which they would be seriously outnumbered . |
| 20 | By definition , racing is not a sport in which you can quit when you 're ahead of the game . |
| 21 | Q. What could the politicians do to create a climate in which you can prosper still further ? |
| 22 | In that look she saw her life with him and it was a decent life : the small farm in high northern fell-land , the farm coming in part or in whole to him , several children , heavy days , quiet times , a life she often yearned for — a plain and ordinary life away from this coddled valley , a place in which she could start again . |
| 23 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 24 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 25 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 26 | The footholds grew narrower as he climbed higher , but a deep groove in the rock face opened out into a chimney in which he could brace his boots against the sides . |
| 27 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 28 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 29 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 30 | He was arrested and tortured in German and Italian prisons , and once was confined in a bottle-dungeon in which he could neither sit nor stand up . |