Example sentences of "[verb] in which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage .
2 An interpretation of scripture is presupposed in which all verses must comport with one another .
3 Recalling his comfortable officers ' quarters in the south , he commented that ‘ the ballot of the ensuing summer renewed our vigour and youth ’ , but the working-men of the north resisted having their lives interrupted and at Hexham in Northumberland a serious anti-ballot riot occurred in which 42 men were killed and another 48 wounded .
4 The coke burns with the oxygen in the air to give carbon dioxide C + O2 = CO2 and becomes even hotter since this is a highly energy-releasing ( exothermic ) process in which 97 kilocalories are released for every gram-molecule ( mole ) of carbon dioxide formed .
5 The Company has other stock option plans in which former employees of the Ultramar Group participate .
6 As Congress approached , several hundred questionnaires and letters were scrutinized in which would-be participants expressed their interests and priorities .
7 Produce pieces of writing in which simple subject matter is organised and set out clearly and appropriately ; in which sentences and any direct speech are helpfully punctuated ; in which a wider range of uses of the comma , eg around appositional or parenthetic constructions , is evident ; and in which brackets or pairs of dashes are used where necessary .
8 By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play .
9 Experiments have been made in which powerful magnets were placed around a nest to distort the magnetic environment .
10 Thus the point of the lives of those who are mainly engaged in politics , nursing , mining and so forth is to keep a society going in which personal love and the enjoyment of beauty can flourish .
11 PKK guerrillas based in Iraq were believed responsible for an Oct. 7 attack in which automatic weapons were used to kill 11 Turkish soldiers in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province .
12 In this system , which is sometimes known as absorption costing , a budget is produced in which all overheads are allocated to the activities associated with them .
13 In this system , which is sometimes known as absorption costing , a budget is produced in which all overheads are allocated to the activities associated with them .
14 Sometimes lattice filters are used in which each section is configured as shown in figure 9.7 .
15 Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months .
16 Postwar uses for converted Mk I Fireflies included the T.1 dual-control pilot trainer which featured a raised rear cockpit for the instructor , the T.2 operational trainer armed with two 20mm wing guns and the T.3 ASW in which naval observers were trained in the art of anti-submarine warfare .
17 Preliminary studies were undertaken in which random blood samples were obtained from 15 subjects and processed as serum .
18 The station was recaptured after about three hours by soldiers loyal to the government , after firing in which two soldiers were killed .
19 Librarians are gradually beginning to apply a systems approach in which different types of sign are used to illustrate different functions such as orientation , direction , identification , instruction , prohibition or regulation and current awareness .
20 By giving the magic limitations , asking in which particular circumstances it works , the drama is actually enhanced .
21 Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted .
22 MEANWHILE a Gadspy sends us a Yorkshire Post cutting in which Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones is branded both racist and xenophobic .
23 The message is even more explicit in The Four Just Men ( 1939 ) , a tale of derring-do in which some chaps set out to warn the nation of a demonic plan to destroy the British Empire , leaving world domination in one man 's hands .
24 No case has been observed in which this strip contains such material and fails to announce the fact .
25 With a painter father and a musician mother , it might not have been easy to decide in which artistic direction to steer the young Sylvestra .
26 Training with a list of stimulus words was regarded as an instance of discrimination learning in which each S comes to evoke an R different from those evoked by other stimuli .
27 A trade accord was signed in which each country accorded the other most-favoured-nation status .
28 We will not reveal in which prominent lady councillor 's name it was signed .
29 On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners .
30 Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century .
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