Example sentences of "way [prep] which it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both theories entail a shift of attention away from considerations of origin or cause to those of function or effect ; neither is as much interested in the ways in which language reflects reality , as in the ways in which it shapes our perception of things ; both attach central importance to the concepts of system and difference . |
| 2 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 3 | It stated : ‘ Although the voluntary system , as we have shown , was once the chief form of collective action outside the Poor Law , it can now best be seen in terms of the ways in which it complements , supplements , extends and influences the informal and statutory systems ’ ( p. 26 ) . |
| 4 | Social Policy 1 evaluates different explanations of the growth of the welfare state and conflicting accounts of the ways in which it functions , and then examines issues and arguments which arise in two areas in which controversy is rife ; namely poverty and disease . |
| 5 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 6 | Here we shall be looking rather more closely at changes within the state system itself , considering ways in which it has been restructured or , perhaps more accurately , was restructuring itself , in response to crisis . |
| 7 | By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies . |
| 8 | Change in the garden is inevitable — but some of the ways in which it reveals itself are a great deal more interesting than others . |
| 9 | The spiritual plane is for all the great religions inseparable from the physical and psychological ways in which it manifests itself and becomes known by us , but yet it is truly distinguishable . |
| 10 | Of particular importance in explaining the disclosure practices of such companies are the industry a company operates in , its size , profitability , extent of overseas operations and the ways in which it raises finance . |
| 11 | The dominant instance of a society is therefore that aspect of it which sustains the prevalent economic system by legitimating the way in which it produces and distributes wealth . |
| 12 | To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous and pays no tribute or attention to its good work and to the robust way in which it represents its interests and those of the industry . |
| 13 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 14 | Another way in which the new narrative extends the range of traditional realism is by re-creating modes of spoken speech , not for reasons of costumbrism or authenticity , but to portray a society through the way in which it expresses itself orally . |
| 15 | It would not be appropriate to go through the arguments again today , but I suspect that teachers will judge the effectiveness of the pay review body not by our arguments on the Floor of the House or in Committee last year , but merely by the way in which it delivers . |
| 16 | The Baptist Missionary Society has changed the way in which it organizes home support for its missionaries . |
| 17 | Artistic interest in the making of meaning does not end when the music is made , the record released , the performance over , but is equally invested in the way in which it takes on its public meanings , via the media of television , radio , advertisement , the star system , Fleet Street gossip columns , poster magazines and so forth . |
| 18 | It must be even-handed in the way in which it reduces effort , understandable , believeable and flexible enough to be realistic . |
| 19 | A second set of concerns is with the structuring of the organisation and the way in which it groups its activities . |
| 20 | From the smoothness of the velocity field within the filaments and the way in which it matches up with the velocities of neighbouring clouds , one infers that the arms are probably gas streams tidally stretched out as they fall towards the bottom of the galactic potential . |
| 21 | To start with , there is no one single way in which it operates . |
| 22 | But to do this , it will be necessary to take a closer look at language as a system of communication , and at the way in which it operates in non-fictional as well as fictional contexts . |
| 23 | This is called the RECORD OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ( RET ) and the way in which it operates is fully described below . |
| 24 | The way in which a municipality legislates and the way in which it administers the legislation it enacts and conducts itself in relation to activities which it lawfully undertakes can not but create a municipal reputation , be it good , bad or indifferent . |
| 25 | Although all this evidence suggests a central role for the IP 3 R , at least in certain cells , there is controversy concerning the way in which it contributes to the initiation and propagation of calcium waves . |
| 26 | For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind . |
| 27 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 28 | It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers . |
| 29 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 30 | One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted . |