Example sentences of "way [prep] which [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 2 | We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums . |
| 3 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 7 | Then , obscurely , he had thought they 'd work it through , he would recruit her , sort out a way in which they could communicate , even meet . |
| 8 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 9 | I would rely on Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev that the only possible way in which they could have reached the eminence they have today is through membership of the party . |
| 10 | He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away . |
| 11 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 12 | This seemed a way in which she could begin to discuss things more openly with them . |
| 13 | Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ . |
| 14 | There is no way in which he could emphasise the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it . |
| 15 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 16 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 17 | When Humphreys was making his study of homosexual activity in public lavatories in the USA , there was no way in which he could have simply stood around watching what was going on . |
| 18 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 19 | He had devised a purely verbal test of his daughters ' love , and while a devotee of Practical Criticism could soon have told him what was wrong with Goneril and Regan from their speeches alone , there was apparently no way in which he could discriminate them from Cordelia . |
| 20 | As well as investigating lists and potential backers , consider if there are way in which you could instigate a residency which would match your particular skills and expectations to the benefits , tangible or otherwise , for a particular firm or organisation . |
| 21 | Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
| 27 | His Attorney-General ( his third ! ) resigned in protest , and on 23 October the House of Representatives began to consider the impeachment of the President — he only constitutional way in which it could remove a President considered unfit for office . |
| 28 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |
| 29 | Jenny saw one way by which she could reach and stop Miss Clinton before either of them — if she had the pluck . |