Example sentences of "in [pron] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 2 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 3 | His novels , whether for young or adult readers , are centred on boys in the process of growing to manhood : he does not probe in depth into the feelings of his young heroes , but he does develop them in relation to events in which they may play convincingly passive or active roles in the fortunes of war . |
| 4 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 5 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |
| 6 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 7 | However , it is by no means certain that either of the established parties would agree to change since they would be bidding away long-term electoral advantage in return for a short-term in office in a coalition government in which they might have only limited power . |
| 8 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 9 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 10 | Teachers must always realise that the ‘ obvious purpose of school is to fit children to the society in which they will grow up ’ . |
| 11 | It is open to holists , however , to resist this conclusion , and Cohen distinguishes two ways in which they can do so . |
| 12 | Here , the Metropolitan police are planning to feed all genetic records of known sex offenders into their computers next year — this will speed up considerably the time in which they can track down attackers . |
| 13 | There should be discussion between governors and the head about the best ways in which they can work together to complement each other 's efforts . |
| 14 | He felt so curious to visit it that he did not stop to make any detailed arrangements about the order in which they should go down . |
| 15 | In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit . |
| 16 | I wish to explore the progress from 1840 , with its clear problems and answers , to the present in which we must incorporate much subtler considerations about our relationship with animals and with plants and with the inanimate world about us . |
| 17 | There are two other ways in which we could break down those two unanswered situations . |
| 18 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 19 | Clearly any deliberation of future policy has to look and look very responsibly and comprehensively er both at the question of the commitments that our armed forces have er and the best way in which we can carry out those commitments . |
| 20 | This is a world in which we can grow closer to God . |
| 21 | Christ has called us to step out by faith and this is one very small way in which we can do so . |
| 22 | First , I want to discuss whether there is any way in which we can estimate how long is required for evolution . |
| 23 | After a generation in which we can detect only rather humdrum work in the Kerameikos , the Athenians established their supremacy in the second quarter of the century . |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one way in which we can cut down imports is to buy British ? |
| 25 | One way in which we can look over a writer 's shoulder , and observe the process of composition , is by examining alterations made both in manuscript , and in revised editions of a work . |
| 26 | A school cleaner married to a doctor is in Social Class I and a school cleaner married to a labourer is in Social Class V. A social classification system is one of the ways in which we can see how successful a society is in educating and sustaining the healthy life of its members . |
| 27 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 28 | There are several ways in which one might explain why priming effects are not cross-modal . |
| 29 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 30 | A crystal ball in which one can call up the past ? |