Example sentences of "in which [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 2 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 3 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 4 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 5 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 6 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 7 | The pursuit of this line of enquiry will encompass a discussion of the complex and historically fluid relationship between needs and wants , including the ways in which they ground moral claims . |
| 8 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 9 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
| 10 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 11 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 12 | Health weeks , health fairs and specific campaigns such as ‘ Be better hearted ’ , ‘ Be fit ’ , ‘ Be all you can be ’ , ‘ Happy Heart ’ and ‘ Smokebusters ’ were mentioned by schools in both sectors as ways in which they promoted healthy practices . |
| 13 | I suppose they put temporary beds in the diningroom … there was a room above stairs with six beds in which they put ten men . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 15 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 16 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 17 | These reports followed our earlier study in which we reported similar findings in animals with experimentally induced colonic inflammation . |
| 18 | Kollwitz ‘ diary consisted of ten books in which she wrote detailed accounts of her artistic practice and other experiences . |
| 19 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 20 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 21 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 22 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 23 | It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months . |
| 24 | For ten years , from the time she arrived in France — after a journey in which she showed considerable enthusiasm for the new life to which she was going , and very little sign of regret about leaving her country , let alone her ‘ dearest mother ’ ( in contrast to Mary of Guise 's grief ) — until her marriage , she was the fêted darling of the French court . |
| 25 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 26 | THE VISIT by Mother Teresa to Ireland is going ahead — but is expected to be scaled down because of her recent fall in which she broke three ribs . |
| 27 | The former result supports similar findings by other investigators ( Oscar-Berman , Goodglass and Cherlow , 1973 ; Turvey , 1973 ; McKeever and Suberi , 1974 ; Ward and Ross , 1977 ) while the latter finding is consistent with the results of another experiment by Cohen in which she used different cues and a different task ( Cohen , 1975b ) . |
| 28 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
| 29 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 30 | It was a strange land to find myself in and one in which I observed many phenomena . |