Example sentences of "in which [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a system in which everybody has total faith in exam results . |
| 2 | And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication . |
| 3 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 8 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 9 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 10 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 11 | We must review and state the principal areas in which we hold environmental information — this could be done in our Annual Report . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 14 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ This is an area in which we have considerable experience in the UK . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 18 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 19 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The major underlying issues for Joanne and for the department in which she works concerned teaching methods and the distinction between content and process in mathematics . |
| 22 | With reference to your letter of 20 July in which you request special leave following the death of your mother . |
| 23 | I refer to your letter sent to Mr Drewry in which you request special leave to attend your fiancé 's father 's funeral . |
| 24 | My elder daughter has read ‘ Some Other Rainbow ’ in which you receive honourable mention and I hope to read it soon . |
| 25 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 26 | It is a serious discipline in which you have infinite freedom , within the restrictions of geometry . |
| 27 | You select an area of the country in which you run different advertising from the advertising you run in the rest of the country . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 30 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , at a rally in central Sudan , in which he criticized foreign relief organizations for " defaming Sudan by begging on behalf of the Sudanese people " . |