Example sentences of "in [noun pl] which [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great egg race experiment was something to break into the Midlands , something to ask them to have opinions about puzzles , because there 's an awful lot of science in schools which precludes you from having an opinion . |
| 2 | The plants provide surprisingly ornamental edgings to beds and borders , and also grow well in pots which enable them to be protected , and thereby extend the season both early and late . |
| 3 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 4 | Indeed , an unusual number of great scientists wrote in terms which allowed them to be readily popularised — sometimes excessively so — Darwin , Pasteur , the physiologists Claude Bernard ( 1813–78 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1821–1902 ) and Helmholtz ( 1821–94 ) ( see p. 315 ) , not to mention physicists like William Thompson , Lord Kelvin . |
| 5 | The aristocracy travelled much for non-utilitarian purposes , but in ways which have nothing in common with modern tourism . |
| 6 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |