Example sentences of "in which [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 However , there are also quite different ways in which flows exhibit chaotic behaviour — with the connection to the general theory of chaos being perhaps more definitely established .
2 Additionally , Action for Cities outlined in 1988 twelve schools/ industry compacts supported by the MSC , in which companies offer firm job prospects to pupils achieving certain standards .
3 Thus the policy ineffectiveness proposition can survive in a model in which prices exhibit some degree of stickiness , provided that the policy instruments exhibit the same degree of stickiness .
4 They no longer want the sort of world in which women gave painful birth to nine or 10 children in the hope of managing to rear three or four to adulthood .
5 To demonstrate this the project will construct and characterise the knowledge base of a number of firms , to describe the range of ways in which firms identify short comings in respect to some aspect of their knowledge resources and to analyse how they respond to acquire new external knowledge .
6 The range of activities in which parents become involved range from repairing curtains , with little contact with children , to active involvement in the teaching and supervision of children in small group work .
7 The Chukchis in particular had no social unit greater than the extended family , and social coherence was achieved by neighbour association and ( as also among the Nivkhs of the Amur ) by ‘ group marriage ’ , in which friends shared each other 's wives .
8 Before any advertising is run , you have a ‘ benchmark ’ survey , in which questions cover key attitudes to the product .
9 Fundamentally an intermediate research degree in which students pursue supervised research .
10 Film producers have ignored this fact and have made films in which masters jump ten feet in the air , thrashing out kicks in all directions .
11 Although ‘ change ’ perhaps suggests dynamism and enthusiasm — in keeping with a successful Club — the energy did not always stretch to the players on the course , for here complaints of slow play were regularly made , doubtless aggravated by televised golf tournaments in which players spent many minutes lining up putts .
12 Climatology is probably the most data-rich branch , in which maps showing mean values of climatic elements such as precipitation or temperature had been long-established and numerous attempts had been made to classify climates upon a world basis .
13 To her amazement more than 100 children — five per cent — responded by citing incidents in which teachers made some sort of sexual advance to them .
14 Among the interesting things to emerge from this first study was the way in which teachers equated formal evaluation exclusively with pupil assessment .
15 Figure 3.4 shows the results of an experiment by Channell and Hall ( 1983 ) in which rats received appetitive conditioning with a light CS — some subjects in a context to which they had been pre-exposed , others in a novel context , differing in its smell and the level of a background noise from that with which they were familiar .
16 For the next two or three years , I made elaborate paintings in which figures struck wooden postures and confronted each other in profile .
17 A third example of the way in which conservatives hold theological beliefs to exist in abstraction from the rest of human knowledge is the discussion about male headship .
18 There is a wasp in which bacteria force male wasps to change sex and thus hitch a ride into the next generation of wasp .
19 Similarly , in industries with casual employment such as building in which employees lacked permanent attachment to a given employer , the union 's focus of organisation was the product or labour market rather than the individual firm .
20 The reshuffle comes not long after a difficult first half in which profits fell 17 p.c .
21 In this chapter you have discovered many ways in which foods containing dietary fibre can make you feel more satisfied — and the food has not yet gone down the throat .
22 It is most important that the people have confidence in the way in which police handle this data .
23 Beyond two years , neither method produces forecasts in which analysts have much confidence .
24 But the most serious hurdle is the fact of a creation in which animals kill each other .
25 For example , writing a letter or reading a book may appear to be solitary activities in which individuals exercise personal skills .
26 Scientists and social theorists assumed that the ethics of family and state were entirely separate , and politicians of all persuasions felt justified in using familial language — in which men became benevolent protectors and women childlike — to describe the subordinate position of women ( and ‘ primitive ’ peoples ) , for within the family subordination was considered legitimate .
27 Boxes were evidently those water-filled tubs in which men agitated shallow sieve bottomed trays loaded with ground ore .
28 Prostitution , in which men buy sexual access to women 's bodies , has not been eradicated by changes in sexual mores .
29 The only common circumstances in which men provide substantial care is when they are looking after a disabled wife , whereas women care for husbands , parents , handicapped children and sometimes other relatives too ( Charlesworth , Wilkin and Durie , 1984 ; Parker , 1985 ; Henwood and Wicks , 1985 ; Finch 1986b ) .
30 Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say .
  Next page