Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 2 | True , the foundations had been laid for a cultural revival , a breakdown of the isolation in which individual centres of learning , art , and devotion had existed . |
| 3 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 4 | In June , after a bloody episode in which both Basrah and nearby Khorramshahr received ferocious hammerings , the United Nations mediated a joint undertaking to abstain from civilian targets . |
| 5 | We observed one very tense episode in which some panel members believed that in the act of creation the panel had been granted independence from the coordinating committee . |
| 6 | He introduced an optional tariff in which all night units were cheaper , and persuaded manufacturers to produce night storage heaters , though this night tariff was not widely promoted and was used by shops and offices rather than by domestic consumers initially . |
| 7 | We can therefore generalize from one experiment in which short-term storage is believed to operate to another in which we also believe it to be present . |
| 8 | Brodigan and Peterson ( 1976 ) ( see also Peterson , Wheeler and Armstrong 1978 ) report just such an experiment in which two types of reward ( food and water ) were available . |
| 9 | Behaviourial evidence suggests that chickens feel long-term pain and depression after their amputations. * The Beijing Farmer 's Daily has reported an experiment in which Chinese scientists have fitted 140 hens with rose-tinted contact lenses . |
| 10 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 11 | This is all that 's left of the bedroom in which four month old twins Bethany and charlotte were sleeping . |
| 12 | The racialization of place , the construction of a political geography in which certain areas like Brixton and White City are coded in terms which mark them out as ‘ front lines ’ of racial confrontation ( inner city/urban jungle/ghetto ) is thus the outcome of complex antagonisms within and between the police force and working-class communities , and is reinforced from both sides . |
| 13 | Of course this film was a condemnation of sweat-shop conditions , and of course it was a melodrama in which poor girls have affairs with the boss 's sons and in which the heroine brandishes a gun in order to make one son do the honourable thing but above all it was a vehicle for a star who had already become one of Hollywood 's hottest properties . |
| 14 | Anyone requiring therapy for such conditions would be well advised to seek out an experienced practitioner in whichever constitutional therapy best suits their individual needs . |
| 15 | a font in which all characters occupy the same amount of horizontal width regardless of the character . |
| 16 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 17 | A significant recent advance was the demonstration { 28 } that the basic " plane-wave " Ikeda map is unphysical , because the 2tR instability has a lower threshold for finite wave vector perturbations than for zero wave vector ( plane-wave ) , with the result that a uniformly excited medium develops an Ikeda oscillation in which neighbouring regions oscillate out of phase . |
| 18 | The concern culminated in the publication in 1929 by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Hewart , of his book The New Despotism in which these arguments and the theme that arbitrary power was being concentrated in the hands of the bureaucracy were elaborated . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , London Contemporary Dance makes a rare four day visit to the Liverpool Empire tomorrow with a three-work programme in which one piece is danced to Rolling Stones music . |
| 20 | The chain store piloted a 13-week part-time secondment programme in which five employees spent hours working with five voluntary organisations . |
| 21 | Doing , experiencing , discussing , taking part , sharing … the hopeful parent would surely welcome schooldays for their children based upon a programme in which these elements enjoy a central part . |
| 22 | Whereas the central sector is mainly hilly terrain and the south is flat and marshy , the north is the only part of the frontier in which real mountains are to be found . |
| 23 | THE adventure centre at the heart of the canoeing tragedy in which four teenagers died earlier this year has been sold and is to close with the loss of 20 jobs , it was announced yesterday . |
| 24 | The trial follows the Antares tragedy in which four fishermen drowned after a submarine snagged its nets in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 25 | The Hillsborough Relatives ' Association put the idea to football club bosses and a badge is planned as a permanent reminder of the April 1989 tragedy in which 95 people died . |
| 26 | This expansion of the mind is one of the true joys of life ; and it entails the escape from the narrow cell of the self and the arrival in the all-enveloping and limitless mind in which all things are contained , not as aliens , but as part of the whole of life . |
| 27 | And though he more than once declared suicide a selfish act , he must also have foreseen that there are certain states of mind in which sensitive consideration of others becomes impossible . |
| 28 | The universe was reduced to a system of chaos and confusion in which all things must struggle to survive . |
| 29 | An all-night vigil on April 8-9 followed by a demonstration by at least 60,000 people in Tbilisi , the Georgian capital , marked the first anniversary of the violent suppression by Soviet troops of a peaceful nationalist demonstration in which 20 demonstrators had been killed [ see pp. 36592-93 ; 36661 ; 36743 ; 36899 ] . |
| 30 | The higher the concentrations the greater the possibility of entering into the realms of hindered settling and settling convection in which upward motion of escaping waters impedes settling ( Kuenen , 1968 ) . |