Example sentences of "way [prep] which [pers pn] could " in BNC.

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1 We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums .
2 specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Yet it is virtually impossible to think of a way in which they could be tested against one another .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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
12 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 .
13 This seemed a way in which she could begin to discuss things more openly with them .
14 If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat .
15 He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away .
16 There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks .
17 Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ .
18 When Humphreys was making his study of homosexual activity in public lavatories in the USA , there was no way in which he could have simply stood around watching what was going on .
19 He had devised a purely verbal test of his daughters ' love , and while a devotee of Practical Criticism could soon have told him what was wrong with Goneril and Regan from their speeches alone , there was apparently no way in which he could discriminate them from Cordelia .
20 There is no way in which he could emphasise the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it .
21 There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof .
22 The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations .
23 As well as investigating lists and potential backers , consider if there are way in which you could instigate a residency which would match your particular skills and expectations to the benefits , tangible or otherwise , for a particular firm or organisation .
24 Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell .
25 There is one way in which you could be of assistance .
26 The interviews gave me plenty of insights , but there was no way in which I could tell in what ways the Moonies might differ from other people of a similar age and from a similar background .
27 Any which are sent to er , which of course would be the only way in which I could be contacted ,
28 The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy .
29 He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that .
30 Although obvious , this would not have been a fruitful question to ask , because there was no way in which it could be answered .
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