Example sentences of "[pron] in [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His purpose was not to be charismatic ; he would be himself in whatever mundane way it took . |
| 2 | Ask your volunteers to tell you in which two lines their cards appear . |
| 3 | At one level , this may simply be a matter of ‘ massaging ’ the statistics , something in which all governments engage . |
| 4 | If the relative difference in growth rates remains steady in the 1990s , the unfolding global picture will be one in which traditional book markets are remorselessly overhauled by the value of the new electronic ones . |
| 5 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 6 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 7 | The approach to primary education endorsed by the Plowden committee was one in which individual programmes of learning were supported by group work and whole class lessons . |
| 8 | The typical picture in such industries was one in which international oil companies , having secured concessions under which they risked their capital , discovered and developed the resource . |
| 9 | One can therefore conclude that there is a sense of unity throughout the catholic — nationalist population as a whole , though one in which certain groups , namely farming interests and the church , at both clerical and popular levels , have strategically dominated , at least until recently . |
| 10 | The third category of incisor digestion is one in which extensive enamel digestion occurs over the whole incisor ( Fig. 3.22 J-K , and Fig. 3.23 H-I ) . |
| 11 | It can be seen that the role of the present-day psychiatric hospital is a very controversial issue , one in which official policy is very much involved . |
| 12 | An English radical commented in 1887 that ‘ the present position of the European world is one in which sheer force holds a larger place than it has held in modern times since the fall of Napoleon ’ . |
| 13 | During this period the traditional pattern , in which shops , counting-houses , warehouses , and places of residence were intermixed within districts associated with specialised groups of trades , was replaced by one in which central areas were characterised by more restricted ranges of activities practised in new types of large scale building . |
| 14 | Let us begin by considering how we might obtain a random sample ; that is , one in which each member of the population has the same chance of being chosen . |
| 15 | A good test would be one in which each item has a high correlation with the overall test score , since this would indicate that all the items tap into the linguistic ability which the test purports to measure . |
| 16 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 17 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 18 | The main difficulty is that the theory is only valid if our society is a just one in which all citizens are genuinely equal ; otherwise there is no equilibrium of equality for punishment to restore . |
| 19 | A pure socialist economic system , by contrast , would be one in which all property was publicly owned so that all goods and services would be produced by state enterprises and in response to political priorities . |
| 20 | The classroom should also be one in which all children 's ideas are valued . |
| 21 | Recall from section 1.5.3 that the regulationist school sees the international economy as having one national economy in a hegemonic position ; a period of structural change can thus be one in which that hegemony is consolidated or challenged and undermined . |
| 22 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 23 | I do not share the view that theory and practice in education are opposites — the ideal situation is one in which good practice informs theory and good theory provides new insights into practice — but I certainly think that the ability of academic writers to communicate clearly , in ways that speak to the experience of practitioners , is vital . |
| 24 | The commonest of these is the one in which two males share one female . |
| 25 | The therapeutic encounter is one in which two people communicate with one another , using a language . |
| 26 | An extreme case of this approach is one in which solid models are required to interpret the local geometry when searching for a clash between two objects . |
| 27 | It is the one in which Assistant Professor Sewell resides . |
| 28 | This described Dutch society as one in which liberal consensus has smothered over expressions of homophobia , while leaving the underlying heterosexism intact . |
| 29 | As far as public image is concerned , the prevailing consumer-oriented climate is one in which professional practices are increasingly scrutinised . |
| 30 | His sublime but discursive wisdom could be used to camouflage a headlong rush towards an easier life , one in which hard problems are fudged , not faced . |