Example sentences of "way [prep] which [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This may be unsatisfactory given the many different types and forms of treaty , and the diverse ways in which they impact upon third parties .
2 Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication .
3 We can best understand the nature of societies and the ways in which they change by investigating the relations between practices .
4 The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions .
5 This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences .
6 Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers .
7 Charles Darwin 's work forced his generation and the generations since to restructure the conventional ways in which they thought about humanity 's role in the world .
8 We have been able to explore , through what they told us , the many different ways in which they respond to this challenge .
9 Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness .
10 This project aims to investigate the nature of the different bargaining relationships that comprise the EMS and EMU and the ways in which they interact with each other .
11 Darwin commented on the growth of such plants and the ways in which they penetrate amongst other vegetation .
12 In telling such stories , people display the ways in which they think about health and illness , and this is of central interest to this study .
13 By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations .
14 In this respect my position will amount to thinking that there are intrinsically prescriptive features to reality , but this will not be done by blurring the distinction between judgements about how the world is characterised and the ways in which we respond to it , as with McDowell .
15 We might at least be fair about the ways in which we account for pupils ' behaviour .
16 His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves .
17 The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this :
18 Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues .
19 In fact , the defences and addictive attitudes described in the first chapter only illustrate the false ways in which we deal with ourselves .
20 Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ?
21 ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all .
22 Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii .
23 erm He apparently is adopting the position of a scientific naturalist , and yet all the ways in which he talks about nature are ways which personify it .
24 Moreover , poems produced at Cnut 's behest ( Thorarin Praise-Tongue was paid fifty marks for his Tøgdrápa ) , although obviously biased in his favour , can imply much about the ways in which he wanted to be seen .
25 If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault .
26 May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ?
27 Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter .
28 On this occasion , because of the unique nature of the measure , we should be prepared to consider in Committee changing the way in which we deal with statutory instruments , enabling us to give them more adequate scrutiny .
29 Unhappiness and feelings of unfulfilment , therefore , must stem from the way in which we move in this world .
30 But it does seem to be = another example of the way in which we look to the amateur , to somebody who depends , for example , on the , very often on the legal briefing of the Clerk of the Court , erm to counterbalance that with his common sense .
  Next page