Example sentences of "way in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Denmark also led the way in its conservation policies , with the archaeologist J. J. A. Worsaae , who had been appointed Inspector for the Conservation of Ancient Monuments in 1847 , working on a programme of survey and preservation .
2 Another major factor we need to consider for black citizens in the UK is the way in which black groups have been defined politically over the past four decades .
3 Racism , and its associated discriminatory practices , are part of the explanation of the way in which black workers fill the worst-paid jobs .
4 New historicism emphasizes the way in which certain rituals and practices , for example of kingship , are equally a part of the processes and representation of power — whether at a beheading , a masque or in a poem .
5 This suggests why , contrary to the way in which certain commentators tend to represent them , it is clear that for Foucault , as for Lyotard or Derrida , total fragmentation would be as counter-productive — and as impossible — as total synthesis .
6 Similarly , the use of contractors is sometimes the only way in which certain organisations can meet their demands for key computing skills .
7 I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society .
8 Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality .
9 Before we explore the influence of ‘ speaker 's topic ’ , we shall try to illustrate in some detail the way in which conversational participants ‘ speak topically ’ , by making their contributions relevant to the existing topic framework .
10 Whereas examples from each branch of physical geography indicate the way in which spatial patterns reflecting process and dynamics can be derived , there is also the possibility of a more integrated approach .
11 Partly , these relate to fears that state policy ( especially social security and housing policy ) might be helping to create such families ; and partly to disapproval of the way in which absent parents are able to evade their ‘ responsibilities ’ to provide for their families .
12 While this will not improve the quality of the content of the information , it can be used to attract attention to displays of information in a way in which printed notices or guides can not .
13 In particular , the study aims to elucidate the way in which various kinds of policy initiative are likely to affect performance in these sectors .
14 ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring .
15 Reflecting this is the way in which temporary workers are found in service sector occupations .
16 China is perhaps the best example of the way in which European influences operated in many forms because political power , both direct and indirect , was mingled there with economic exploitation ( for Egyptian and Chinese affairs ; see below , pp. 107 , 124 ) .
17 In his address on The Improvement of Towns , Unwin attacked the then common desire to have each house in its own individual plot , and regretted the way in which wide margins of grass were taken into individual gardens ( 1904 p 3 ) .
18 And I think central government needs to look at the way in which inner cities are being constantly run down and erm problems highlighted and aggravated because of the circumstances .
19 The way in which socio-economic surveys are planned and carried out often tends to predetermine the results obtained and , therefore , the action to be prescribed .
20 Of particular interest in this connection is the way in which complex technologies have been developed in co-operation with NTT on the one hand and competing Japanese electronics companies on the other .
21 It also ignores the way in which Western states , particularly the United States , have years ignored the real causes of security and stability problems in the Middle East — the Arab-Israeli dispute , together with the Palestinian issue , and the illegitimacy of the vast majority of Arab regimes which is the real cause of the repression they practice to ensure their survival .
22 Hoarding key materials is not the only way in which Western nations can safeguard key industries .
23 Yet , the extent to which improvements can be made in education , among women particularly , in the modernization of water supply and sanitation systems , and in the adequacy of medical care , among other things , will influence the way in which reproductive patterns relate to child and maternal morbidity and mortality .
24 Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ .
25 So long as parliamentary sovereignty remains " the one fundamental law " of the Constitution , there is no way in which substantive rights can be entrenched and put beyond the reach of Parliament .
26 Some examples of such arrangements were given above as illustrations of the way in which governmental functions may be performed by non-governmental bodies .
27 We on this side of the house , have a number of specific dis disagreements about the er way in which specific boundaries have been drawn in addition members will remember our strong call for an additional Scottish seat .
28 These benefits , which were introduced in legislation passed in the year of the British Sex Discrimination Act , are perhaps two of the most blatant examples of the way in which married women are seen first and foremost as housewives and thus responsible for all the domestic work within the home .
29 What characterises bureaucracy is the rational and systematic way in which official duties are defined and distributed .
30 Historically , threatening our security in this ‘ physical ’ sense has been the most common way in which penal systems have attempted to force our compliance ( through capital and corporal punishments ) .
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