Example sentences of "[art] way [prep] which " in BNC.

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1 The very high proportion premature ( over 28 per cent ) among short spaced births may offer an explanation of the ways through which birth intervals affect the viability of fetuses and the survival chances of infants ( see next section ) .
2 The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced .
3 The ways by which this class comes about and the implications and feedback effects to and from the natural environment are discussed in Chapters 6 , 7 and 8 .
4 Interpreting taxonomic richness thus comes down to identifying the ways by which diversity has been decreased .
5 to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself .
6 We are in close touch with our allies on this matter to see the ways by which assistance can perhaps be given , and contracts can be placed , for valuable work to be done which would occupy such scientists , in addition to the part that they might also play more directly in some of the work involved in the dismantling and disabling programme of that massive nuclear arsenal .
7 It was one of the ways by which a more equal society can be created . ’
8 You should also look at the ways in which the physical movements of the actor are organised to suit the restraints of the small screen .
9 He returns again to the ways in which melodrama is rooted in Indian popular culture .
10 Clearly , it is important to consider each of the ways in which you can safeguard your equipment because it is no use avoiding all the flying hazards if you are going to write off your glider on the ground .
11 Series of interlinking metaphors of chaos and inhumanity are generated to maintain this dramatic mode and ensure that the agenda for control remains firmly with the system , and already I have used such metaphorical terms as ‘ animals ’ and ‘ enemies ’ to indicate some of the ways in which those in power make use of the rich imagination contained in everyday language .
12 In consequence the wealth of research contained in the bibliographies I have mentioned often fails to follow through the deep structures of police culture or establish the ways in which the culture is self-sustaining even in the face of calls for social change .
13 Any need to analyse the ways in which the multi-variant police world forms a coherent and self-sustaining whole is material for the social scientist and not the practitioners , for they already live the system as a matter of course .
14 Wambaugh , himself an ex-cop , describes the ways in which wildly autocratic and psychotic bosses set out to undermine their own ‘ front line troops on the streets ’ and describes a manual which mirrors the poster in the Northumbria police training department described above :
15 The ways in which individual councils arrange matters vary greatly , but normally a council has an agreement with a local firm of funeral directors for a funeral service .
16 This factsheet can only suggest some of the ways in which they may help you .
17 Lifetimes of commitment explores the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime .
18 It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house .
19 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
20 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
21 The ways in which these four actions can be co-ordinated are extremely varied .
22 Choreographers can not in any way change the ways in which their dancers move .
23 ‘ I am fasting because I see no other way to express my protest against the ways in which our politicians brazenly keep up appearances and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the state as their victory .
24 The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) .
25 The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable .
26 Also the ways in which , as a result , the negro ‘ has been fixated in terms of the genital ’ ( pp. 157 , 165 ) , and the corresponding displacement on to the person of colour of inadequacies and fears intrinsic to the cultural as distinct from natural formation of European sexuality ( pp. 1 57 , 165 ) .
27 These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women .
28 To illustrate the ways in which different components of performance can be assessed , we will consider examples from a small selection of the tests that have been devised .
29 It 's another example of Morrissey 's unusual awareness of the trajectories of fame , and the ways in which fans use and are used by stars .
30 Later , he shifted his focus from social hygiene ( segregation/surveillance/normalization ) to study mental hygiene ; the ways in which each individual is involved in self-policing .
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