Example sentences of "in which [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication . |
| 2 | What are the circumstances in which they use this word and what are their attitudes to a person thus described ? |
| 3 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 4 | They can formulate hypotheses about reference on the basis of the contexts in which they hear new words , and , with the help of Contrast , they also start out with a strong guiding principle about relations among word senses . |
| 5 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 6 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 7 | I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant . |
| 8 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 9 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 10 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 11 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 12 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 13 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 14 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 15 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 16 | Decisions as to the proportion in which they hold these assets , in other words the nature of their portfolio management , determine how the sector as a whole fulfils the function of allocating the community 's savings to those who wish to borrow . |
| 17 | They are daytime hunters , flying with their six legs crooked in front of them to form a tiny basket in which they catch smaller insects . |
| 18 | The pursuit of this line of enquiry will encompass a discussion of the complex and historically fluid relationship between needs and wants , including the ways in which they ground moral claims . |
| 19 | We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services . |
| 20 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 21 | Students should be advised to keep a " Difficulties Diary " in which they note those items , both phonological and grammatical , which causes them particular difficulty . |
| 22 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
| 23 | The astonishing peculiarity of human beings , as distinct from other animals , is the great variety of ways in which they achieve these ends . |
| 24 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 25 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 26 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 27 | Meetings and feedback sessions in which they share local experiences have proved very valuable . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 30 | Health weeks , health fairs and specific campaigns such as ‘ Be better hearted ’ , ‘ Be fit ’ , ‘ Be all you can be ’ , ‘ Happy Heart ’ and ‘ Smokebusters ’ were mentioned by schools in both sectors as ways in which they promoted healthy practices . |