Example sentences of "in [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 2 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |
| 3 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 4 | The I.L.P. provided James and his fellow colonials , Padmore and Jomo Kenyatta , with a forum in which they could expound upon their own individual ideas concerning nationhood . |
| 5 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 6 | In McNeile 's there were no changing rooms or showers , only foot baths in which we could wash after games , and only two baths and five lavatories for forty-seven of us . |
| 7 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 8 | Just as we were supposed to accept their stories about how this was the only country in which you could ski in the mountains in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon . |
| 9 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 10 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 11 | The interviews gave me plenty of insights , but there was no way in which I could tell in what ways the Moonies might differ from other people of a similar age and from a similar background . |
| 12 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 13 | Ever since 1947 some Gaullists had recognized that the General 's willingness to prolong his role beyond periods of acute crisis — the only periods in which he could function as a consensual leader — risked compromising his mystique . |
| 14 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 15 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 16 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 17 | ‘ John Killick said you might be interested in anything anyone could remember about Stephen Summerchild . ’ |