Example sentences of "[noun] in which they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 2 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |
| 3 | The mist obscures their support crews and steals blankly between the men and the homes in which they will sleep . |
| 4 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 5 | They build criteria for studying approaches to supporting the children in reading in the schools in which they will work . |
| 6 | This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality . |
| 7 | Distribution is the process of making the right materials available at the right time , in the right quantities and in a condition in which they can be used . |
| 8 | To this end , we recently circulated a questionnaire to all appropriate staff to identify specialisms and areas in which they may be asked to answer enquiries . |
| 9 | The loose , fine tufts of roots of these plants will provide an ideal haven for the fish , and also spawning areas in which they can lay their eggs . |
| 10 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 11 | At the appropriate times of the year , caged migrant birds regularly hop in the direction relative to the sun in which they would normally migrate . |
| 12 | The Opposition parties have 20 days in each session in which they can select the topic for debate . |
| 13 | The recent development of the widespread cultivation of oilseed rape has , for the first time , provided some of our birds with an arable habitat in which they can nest — sedge and grasshopper warblers are other summer migrants that make use of it now . |
| 14 | A fast ship was sent to recall de Tourville but fog in the Channel delayed it and the French prepared , all unknowing , for a battle in which they would be seriously outnumbered . |
| 15 | Even now , they were following their own destinies , being drawn towards some Last Battle in which they would stand against things Hawk called the Dark Spirits , whose front man on Earth she recognized as Elder Seth . |
| 16 | It has to be remembered that children love an exercise in which they can get things right , or , of course , wrong . |
| 17 | In this example , No. 3 is the same as No. 1 , but it is easy to imagine many circumstances in which they would be different in practice . |
| 18 | Those of today have always had some evaluation , but seldom enough to cover all the circumstances in which they may be used , and they include many of such potency that their misuse can have dire consequences . |
| 19 | Major banks and building societies have found that establishing offshore branches gives them far greater scope to offer accounts that pay interest gross ; within the UK the circumstances in which they may do this are very limited . |
| 20 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 21 | I argued that there was a lack of clarity ( or clear research evidence ) concerning what these appropriate qualities might be , an unfortunate tendency to abstract approved-of skills from consideration of the contextual circumstances in which they might need to be employed , and an inclination to present a one-sided interpretation of the implications of specialist subject expertise for teaching quality . |
| 22 | That is not an unreasonable thing to do when one considers the circumstances in which they might be living . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 24 | The reporting of the crime is on the one hand an excuse for sexual titillation and on the other a misleading warning to women as to the circumstances in which they will be raped and how to avoid it . |
| 25 | So it is up to you to see that this does not happen , by creating circumstances in which they can continue to develop their relationship ‘ which his mother has every right to expect to be an on-going one , even in her old age . |
| 26 | Beliefs are inconsistent when they can not both be true , attitudes are inconsistent when there are circumstances in which they can not ( in the same sense of ‘ can not ’ ) both be fully actualised in feeling and action . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal concluded that this was a case of deliberate and secret action by the employees and the defendants in circumstances in which they must have known the exact result of what they were doing and must have known it was wrong . |
| 28 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 29 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 30 | Under ordinary border conditions they often become stunted and their leaves burned at the edges because they are too dry , so the only place in which they can be grown properly is a bog garden . |