Example sentences of "in which [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman . |
| 2 | Pound there , it is plain — for instance , in his comment on Hilaire Belloc — is as unwilling as any Marxist to abstract a question like the proper language for poetry from the whole social matrix and milieu in which such a subject may get itself debated . |
| 3 | Although in this case the two outcomes are differentiated by the presence or the absence of a neutral event ( see also Fedorchak and Bolles 1986 ) , there are several other ways in which such a differentiation can be arranged . |
| 4 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 5 | Suppose that x and y are numbers , such that x is greater than y ; then it would appear that there is no conceivable way in which such a relation could be reduced to qualitative properties of one kind or another , and re-expressed , accordingly , in a form that does not require the existence of both its terms . |
| 6 | Upon closer examination , however , it was revealed that there were at least three ways in which such a conclusion would be misleading . |
| 7 | However , respondents pointed to situations in which such a rule would seem to give anomalous results . |