Example sentences of "in [pron] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tipping , from Cobham , Surrey , died in February during a reconstruction for BBC Television 's 999 series of a real-life incident in which a skydiver 's parachute became entangled in a plane 's wheels . |
| 2 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |
| 3 | Stress-induced mental problems can be abrupt and dramatic ; they include suicide attempts , irrational or violent behaviour , and the full-blown ‘ nervous breakdown ’ in which a person 's thoughts and behaviour become sufficiently deranged to merit admission to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 4 | Nozick , for example , formulates an entitlement theory of justice , in which a person 's property holdings are just if they are acquired through some just act of original acquisition or by some just transfer . |
| 5 | The generality of application or the audi alteram partem maxim , and its flexibility in operation , were brought out by Lord Loreburn L.C. , who stated that the maxim applied to ‘ everyone who decides anything , ’ while recognising also that the manner in which a person 's case was heard did not necessarily have to be the same as an ordinary trial . |
| 6 | It is one of the only everyday activities in which a person 's mistake or misfortune can lead to immediate injury or death . |
| 7 | The proposal seems to be mainly aimed at situations in which a patient 's testamentary capacity is in doubt ; however , the generalisation of its interpretation with respect to medical emergencies may expose doctors to legal proceedings even if they had acted in good faith and in the patient 's best interests . |
| 8 | 2.29 The assessment of a husband 's claim is made in a not dissimilar fashion to the way in which a wife 's claim is approached . |
| 9 | From the evidence of a 10-country study , Gladstone ( 1984 ) notes that the activities , structure and functions of employers ' associations do show a good deal of inter country variation , often a reflection of distinctive historical experiences and a particular course of industrialisation with resultant differences in the environment in which a country 's industrial relations system has to operate . |
| 10 | There are two main ways in which a Christian 's mind can be affected by faulty presuppositions . |
| 11 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 12 | Between 1945 and 1970 there were five : in 1948–9 into questions of possible bribery of ministers , chaired by Mr Justice Lynskey ; in 1957–8 into leakage of bank rate , chaired by Lord Justice Parker ; in 1959 into allegations of police assault on a boy , chaired by Lord Sorn ; in 1962–3 into a case of spying in which a minister 's moral behaviour might have been involved , chaired by Lord Radcliffe ; and in 1966–7 into the responsibility for the Aberfan disaster , chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies . |
| 13 | R.9 sets out the circumstances in which a body 's recognition automatically expires . |
| 14 | More seriously sacrilegious is surely Saint Pierre et le jongleur , " Saint Peter and the jongleur " , in which a jongleur 's soul goes off to Hell with a number of other satirically identified characters — jousting men , usurers , thieves , bishops , priests , monks , abbots , knights — but presents itself , incongruously , as that of a relatively good character , anxious , for instance , to please its new infernal master ( in a witty parody of the Orpheus story ) by singing . |
| 15 | To the extent that it does take place , any exchange is biased by the way in which a student 's ‘ self-image ’ and his image of his fellows is affected by their grades . |
| 16 | There was also a case in which a hunter 's pack of hounds , initially on the scent of a cougar , ended up chasing a large male goat . |
| 17 | And just as modern science has no answer to the riddles of human brain and mind function , so too is there no satisfactory answer to the way in which a creature 's brain , body and instinct are put together . |
| 18 | Consider a computer with multiple arrays of accumulators and control registers , in which a process 's complete context is contained in one array of accumulators and one array of control registers ( in particular , the program counter is a control register ) . |
| 19 | There will always be varying ways in which a woman 's relationship to her home is expressed , depending on the period and culture in which she lives . |