Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 2 | His Protestantism was an intensely private religion in which the effects of devotion were directed inwardly to produce change of heart or mental illumination . |
| 3 | That is to say , is it not the case that a religion in which the Godhead is represented as male , or central to which is a male human being , necessarily acts as an ideology which is biased against half of humanity ? |
| 4 | The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art . |
| 5 | A gasifier is a furnace in which the air supply is restricted to prevent complete combustion , hence its more descriptive tag ‘ gasification by partial combustion ’ . |
| 6 | For some this is a moment of disappointment in which the real , the true , and the authentic are surrendered to , or contaminated by , the factitious and the contrived . |
| 7 | ’ Readers of Jane Eyre will recall the episode in which the young heroine creeps upstairs at night to share the bed of her friend , Helen Burns , who is dying of consumption . |
| 8 | Following a consumer deal in which the consumer bought a hot bottle direct from the manufacturer , the consumer may claim for damage to his bed after the bottle burst . |
| 9 | The Pen-Pal project is part of a teaching experiment in which the School of Modern Languages and the Department of Computer Science are taking part . |
| 10 | So we recommend a one-year experiment in which the Office of Fair Trading gathers typical APRs in the way we have suggested , and publishes the tabulated results monthly as a press release . |
| 11 | As part of his investigation into the extent of racial disadvantage in Britain , Smith set up an experiment in which the independent variable was race and the dependent variable was the success or otherwise of applications for a broad range of jobs . |
| 12 | Morais and Bertelson therefore carried out an experiment in which the apparent spatial localisation of a sound source was achieved by manipulating either the time or the intensity difference of the same stimulus heard at the two ears . |
| 13 | Clockwise from top left An early 20th-century papier-maché lion which growls at the tug of a metal ring ; a late 19th-century version of Happy Families ; tin soldiers perpetually fighting the Battle of Waterloo ; a heads-and-bodies-and-tails book in which the metamorphoses are part of a story ; a cottager 's doll from a village antiques shop ; a fish pond in which the lines are baited with a magnet ; a zoetrope , which reveals a series of moving images as the drum revolves ; a tin man c.1910 who raises his hat when you pull his string . |
| 14 | The pond in which the tadpole develops is only temporary , so it must complete its metamorphosis into a toad as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Matthew Weinstein , at Sonnabend from 14 November to 19 December , makes abstractions aggressive , colourful , even violent in spirit , using enamels and glazes and flirting with notions of vulgarity in which the imagery of the tattoo parlour hearts , skulls , etc. sometimes peep through . |
| 16 | For the eight years of their marriage , the Beetons developed a partnership in which the personal and professional were intertwined . |
| 17 | 1.2 The successful prediction and management of violent or aggressive behaviour follows from a partnership in which the resources and responsibilities of organisation , management and workers combine to maximise available information on client situations before contact and enable workers to feel confident , equipped and supported in their work with potentially difficult situations . |
| 18 | There was a photograph of the bedroom in which the bed appeared gargantuan , with a great carved wooden headboard and foot , neatly made , although somebody 's sunglasses had been left on the patchwork quilt . |
| 19 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 20 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 21 | The negotiation of the contractual terms of such relationships is all too often regarded as a contest in which the supplier attempts to exclude the maximum possible liability to the customer , and the customer to impose the maximum possible liability on the supplier ; the only rules are those imposed by the Unfair Contract Terms Act , and the contest is finally decided by the relative bargaining power of the two parties . |
| 22 | A love-struck swain , intent on sating his unrequited love , enters a beauty contest in which the target of his amour is also a contestant . |
| 23 | The plasmids used were either pH1°CAT , a construct in which the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase ( CAT ) gene was driven by the mouse histone H1° promoter containing H1° 5' flanking sequences and 5' untranslated region from -2800 to +252 , or pC110 . |
| 24 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |
| 25 | The use of very quiet sustained chords on muted trombones has not yet , however , been done to death and is recommended as a luxury in which the orchestrator might very occasionally indulge . |
| 26 | A MAJOR financial institution in Britain has been the victim of a £50m computerised theft in which the money was sent around the world in electronic parcels . |
| 27 | By contrast , the argument runs , a nationally prescribed curriculum , rigidly dispensed to all , will be a force for dull uniformity in which the vitality and diversity of personal and social experience is homogenized . |
| 28 | She rummages in her jewellery box where brooches , necklaces and earrings are jumbled together with enamel lapel badges expressing support for various radical causes — Support the Miners , Crusade for Jobs , Legalize Pot , A Woman 's Right To Choose — and selects a silver brooch in which the CND symbol and the Yin sign are artfully entwined . |
| 29 | Mosley had decided during the 1931 general election campaign to form a fascist movement , after the devastating defeat in which the New Party lost all its parliamentary seats and twenty-two of its twenty-four candidates forfeited their deposits , and his visit to Mussolini in Rome and to nazi leaders in Munich in January 1932 merely strengthened his resolve . |
| 30 | The community charge was intended to be a simple and visible system of raising revenue in which the behaviour of profligate ( assumed to be Labour ) councils would be evident to the electorate . |