Example sentences of "in which [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 2 | East Germany was the first country in which fears over the state of the environment played a leading part in the overthrow of a system of government . |
| 3 | A confident style in which echoes from the past meet strong modern liens . |
| 4 | Fish likewise require as much sunlight as possible if they are to retain their brilliant colours and make satisfactory growth , although they do appreciate a shady corner in which to glide during the heat of a summer 's day . |
| 5 | In the second chapter of his work , Simmel traces the manner in which coinage as the medium used for money gradually loses any intrinsic value , and becomes exclusively a symbol for all other relationships . |
| 6 | The other ‘ road ’ had been developed when in Avon Finance v Bridger [ 1985 ] 2 A11 ER 281 the court envisaged the extension of the protection previously given to wives to elderly parents , and in the present case Scott LJ saw no reason why the ‘ protection ’ should not extend to all cases where the relationship between the surety and debtor was one in which influence by the debtor over the surety and reliance by the surety on the debtor were natural and probable . |
| 7 | And they would , I think , conclude that , if a protected class is to continue to be recognised , the class ought , logically , to include all cases in which the relationship between the surety and the debtor is one in which influence by the debtor over the surety and reliance by the surety on the debtor are natural and probable features of the relationship . |
| 8 | Perhaps the pause is only long enough for his mind to find and form a new , fresh and appropriate body in which to continue on the mental outworking of the karmic dance . |
| 9 | Clearly , the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery and the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) take an entirely different view which I do not believe would be an effective way in which to deal with the problem . |
| 10 | Secondly , the Home Secretary and his colleagues have found a way in which to deal with the problem swiftly and , I believe , to remove the uppermost element . |
| 11 | This one has a commercial storyline : it is a modern ghost story in which research into the 17th century affects the present . |
| 12 | There are genuine ways in which tests against the history of physics can support or discredit Lakatos 's methodology . |
| 13 | If we examine these statistics critically and the social and economic context in which changes in the age structure of Britain are likely to occur in the future , we can dispel much of that gloom . |
| 14 | When we are considering the impact of urbanization , we focus upon the way in which changes in the family and economy are affected by physical distance and spatial separation , the increasing need to travel to work , and perhaps the substitution of primary social relationships in a relatively stable territorially-based community such as a village by more secondary , more impersonal and fluctuating social relationships — which may , under certain circumstances , cause the members of the nuclear family to become more dependent upon each other . |
| 15 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 16 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 17 | Kangaroo rats and spring-hares use their holes , as the tortoise does , to shelter from the heat ; hyaenas and wolves as nurseries ; badgers and armadillos as dormitories in which to slumber during the day after foraging at night ; and mice and rabbits as sanctuaries where they are beyond the reach of most of their enemies . |
| 18 | It is a tough world in which to survive at the moment . |
| 19 | The expression in which appears without the article is , " Maccabee and his followers " , which has no parallel in the other nineteen cases in which is preceded by the article . |
| 20 | Bibliometrics emerges not at the level of individual records of publications , but at the level of files of bibliographic records , in which values in the fields recur . |
| 21 | After recycling , we must find the safest way in which to dispose of the waste . |
| 22 | This unleashed such a storm of protest , in which branches in the Eastern District played their full part , that the government quickly backed down . |
| 23 | The section of the interview dealing with housework standards and routines was one in which references to the mother were very frequent . |
| 24 | There is a familiar line of business thought behind Gencor 's break-up , in which shares in the four non-mining subsidiaries will be returned to the conglomerate 's shareholders . |
| 25 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 26 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 27 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |
| 28 | The Pátio is an interesting oasis in which to rest from the hustle and bustle of Funchal . |
| 29 | But how can the machine know the right order in which to look at the various possibilities ? |
| 30 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |