Example sentences of "of [noun] in which it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the Prime Minister has negotiated a set of circumstances in which it will be possible for employers in Britain to pay lower wages and work their employees for longer hours in worse conditions than their competitors on mainland Europe . |
| 2 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 3 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 4 | The previous section depicted all sorts of situations in which it would be natural to describe animals or human babies as recognising something — names , parents , fellow-creatures , their own bodies ( but not their ‘ self ’ ) — and it was concluded that there was nothing out of order in so doing . |
| 5 | Perhaps an illustration can make this difference clear : faced with the word saucer to read aloud , there are only a limited number of ways in which it can be read , given the rules of English orthography . |
| 6 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 7 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 8 | But because it is deictic it is context-sensitive , and there are a number of ways of using the utterance The sun shines brightly and a number of contexts in which it might occur . |
| 9 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |