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

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1 Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved .
2 ‘ I do not know whether homosexuals are born homosexuals or acquire that trait because of the way in which they are brought up ...
3 Moving on now to some of the other facilities and controls to be found on camcorders , there are one or two which deserve a mention here because of the way in which they speed up and simplify their operation .
4 The studies can be illuminating largely because , as Banks ( 1974 ) puts it , of the way in which they reveal differences between systems which in many other respects are similar , and similarities in systems which otherwise are different .
5 However , young women were also often very critical of the way in which they were treated differently to young men .
6 In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ?
7 Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China .
8 However , these figures are often held to underestimate the true amount of unemployment , especially among women , because of the way in which they are collected .
9 This requires an investigation of the way in which they perceive the context of the interaction and the manner , appearance and actions of others .
10 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 .
11 Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains .
12 Visitors were instructed to ask what time working class wives got up in the morning and to elicit a history of the way in which they organised their day 's work .
13 They may not always have turned up with what teachers would have wished , but I am sure that there has been a great acceptance of the way in which they have carried out a very difficult task .
14 So two identical firms can end up with different reported earnings purely as a result of the way in which they elect to treat their capital assets .
15 So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds .
16 ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs .
17 We must now make anti-racist strategies a central part of the way in which we organize .
18 The process of stereotyping is part of the way in which we simplify the world .
19 Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward .
20 So what we need to do is to recognise that as a witness of that , of the way in which we work , because it is .
21 Knowing where we are in terms of the way in which we are tricked into having bad .
22 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 .
23 And unfortunately , unscrupulous landlords that are actually benefiting from this , and in a lot of cases , it 's not , people , people are n't paying , necessarily paying this rent out of their wages , it 's actually the poll tax payer who is paying these rents , er through housing benefit , and I think we should all be aware of the way in which we collectively are being ripped off
24 He was aware of her superiority , of the way in which she had stood by herself , not seeking out the company .
25 At birth , Piaget sees the infant as having no a priori knowledge of her environment or of the way in which she can act upon it .
26 Gittins 's work is useful not only because of the way in which she highlights gender , but also because her empirical data broaden out from the household and show that women at least have , under certain circumstances in the past , been involved in the use of kin relations to maximize resources across households .
27 It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past .
28 Understandably , the courts are more willing to review a decision because of the way in which it has been reached than because of its actual merits , or lack of them .
29 Because of the way in which it began , Christianity inherited the peculiar Jewish view of time with its hope of redemption from successive oppressors .
30 Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency .
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