Example sentences of "way [prep] [Wh det] they could " in BNC.

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1 They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances .
2 Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules .
3 Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known .
4 Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing .
5 Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised .
6 Yet it is virtually impossible to think of a way in which they could be tested against one another .
7 But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed .
8 Then , obscurely , he had thought they 'd work it through , he would recruit her , sort out a way in which they could communicate , even meet .
9 my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable
10 I would rely on Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev that the only possible way in which they could have reached the eminence they have today is through membership of the party .
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