Example sentences of "way in which [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Ruth Merttens and Jeffrey Vass ( 1987 ) in an article headed ‘ Parents in schools : raising money or standards ? ’ discussed ways in which they structured the involvement of parents with their children 's learning of mathematics and Boland and Simmons ( 1987 ) describe ways in which they altered parents ' and children 's attitudes to reading .
2 This may be unsatisfactory given the many different types and forms of treaty , and the diverse ways in which they impact upon third parties .
3 From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted .
4 In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations .
5 The result is that little attention is given to people 's own experience and understandings of these processes and the fact that such understandings in turn lead to ways in which they attempt to improve their circumstances within the constraints and opportunities with which they are faced .
6 Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication .
7 Animals are no strangers to ‘ technology ’ and some of the ways in which they use it are surprising as well as being remarkably sophisticated .
8 But the ways people can best deal with their own stress are as varied as the ways in which they express it .
9 We can best understand the nature of societies and the ways in which they change by investigating the relations between practices .
10 The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions .
11 Language is only one of the ways in which they communicate and , certainly at the beginning of the novel , not the most important .
12 This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences .
13 an exhibition structured around concepts of ‘ memory ’ in the context of the 20th Century Gallery might raise some interesting questions about processes of selection by addressing not only what museum collections enable us to ‘ remember ’ but also the ways in which they facilitate ‘ forgetting ’ .
14 Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers .
15 Charles Darwin 's work forced his generation and the generations since to restructure the conventional ways in which they thought about humanity 's role in the world .
16 Employers will be asked to quantify the ways in which they became involved .
17 They are , therefore , not required by law to have governing bodies although some LEAs , including Berkshire , established such bodies some years ago and have subsequently applied most of the requirements of legislation to the ways in which they conduct their affairs .
18 We have been able to explore , through what they told us , the many different ways in which they respond to this challenge .
19 Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness .
20 Furthermore , many women teachers indicated that they had difficulty gaining promotion within the school ( see Burgess ? 1988a ) and talked about the ways in which they experienced sexism and oppression in their day to day work .
21 They are influenced by the beliefs which people have , which affect the ways in which they behave and in which they use their resources .
22 The pursuit of this line of enquiry will encompass a discussion of the complex and historically fluid relationship between needs and wants , including the ways in which they ground moral claims .
23 They share similar landscapes and they share a similar history of ways in which they have worked to make a living .
24 The indigo birds and whydahs of Africa are brood parasites just like the European cuckoo , but there are some interesting differences in the ways in which they have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle .
25 Key ways in which they have worked to lower costs are in reducing the prescribing rate ( which is often high in poorer areas ) ; increasing generic prescribing by informing people of the savings , addressing concerns , and , in the west midlands , offering laboratory analysis if patients believe there to be a difference in symptom control ; and providing draft formularies and guidance on their management .
26 Thus , the respective roles of the state , labour and different types of capital ( such as large industrial enterprises , other enterprises and financial institutions ) can be distinguished , and the ways in which they have interacted to produce recent economic changes can be analysed .
27 A Tory economic strategy which rests on Sunday shopping , cable television and fun parks rests on people behaving in ways in which they have 110 need to at all .
28 Other people could probably tell their own tale about the impact it 's having on the way in which they have to work and the ways in which they have to respond .
29 To understand why this is so we need to look more closely at the ways in which they have been used .
30 As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written .
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