Example sentences of "way in [Wh det] he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 2 | Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ . |
| 3 | There is no way in which he could emphasise the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it . |
| 4 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 5 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 6 | When Humphreys was making his study of homosexual activity in public lavatories in the USA , there was no way in which he could have simply stood around watching what was going on . |
| 7 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 8 | He had devised a purely verbal test of his daughters ' love , and while a devotee of Practical Criticism could soon have told him what was wrong with Goneril and Regan from their speeches alone , there was apparently no way in which he could discriminate them from Cordelia . |