Example sentences of "in [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted that the field staff return to headquarters in the winter and this resulted in their having more contact with senior officers and colleagues . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , this does not address the question in which cases such service is required ; it does not , read strictly , touch those provisions of the law of the state of origin which allow valid service by notification au parquet or , for that matter , affixing the document to the courthouse door . |
| 3 | Midway through the afternoon there was the longest grind comp , in which dreadlocked local favourite Colin was beaten surprisingly by Richie , the Pete Rodgers for the nineties , whose reliably long stand-ups proved too much for everyone else . |
| 4 | So , for women in waged jobs , the reduced time available in which to perform domestic labour acts as a pressure to heighten labour productivity in the home , and contributes to the successful penetration of capitalism into this still privatised sector , by the creation of a market for domestic mechanisation . |
| 5 | Tauchen and Pitts ( 1983 ) developed a model in which average daily volume and the variance of daily price changes are positive functions of the daily flow of information , the extent to which traders disagree and the number of traders . |
| 6 | This approach argues that the best way in which to use syntactic knowledge is to formalise the grammar and encode it as a set of rules to which input must conform if it is to be considered acceptable . |
| 7 | ‘ I have six tournaments left in which to reach this goal . ’ |
| 8 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 9 | This conclusion is strongly supported by our studies of men and women in Hertfordshire and Preston in which reduced fetal growth was associated with high blood pressure , impaired glucose tolerance , and raised plasma fibrinogen and factor VII concentrations in each social class and at each level of cigarette smoking , alcohol consumption , and obesity . |
| 10 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 11 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 12 | She rallies support for the endangered whale , catalogues underwater life and creates new devices in which to explore virgin sea worlds . |
| 13 | The clear indications of the appropriate direction in which to move any product or market for the benefit of the company makes for good communication and useful discussion . |
| 14 | Nor did they speak nicely or carry handbags from Étienne Aigner in which reposed American Express Gold Cards . |
| 15 | People who possess wealth , whether it be wealthy people or simply small savers , have to decide the best form in which to hold that wealth . |
| 16 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 17 | There will be various categories in which to enter good movement pictures and we hope to both generate more interest in Medau and find new ideas for our publicity boards . |
| 18 | There 's really not much point advocating a ‘ New World Order ’ if there 's no world left in which to establish that order . |
| 19 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 20 | The industry is now investigating sites in which to dump nuclear waste underground . |
| 21 | In this , the mysterious twenty-nine days was explained : ‘ parents will have a period of 29 days in which to seek further information from the Chief Education Officer and to make representations and submit written evidence . ’ |
| 22 | Little is known about the ways in which student teachers learn to teach , or about the ways in which preservice professional training might most appropriately be structured to facilitate that learning . |
| 23 | This did not in itself imply any belief in racial inequality , superiority or inferiority , though when married to the study of the evolution of man on the basis of the pre-historic fossil record , it did . |
| 24 | 4 Reasonableness between the parties : competition and canvassing The fact that an employee has agreed to be bound by a restrictive covenant does not in itself make that restriction reasonable between the parties . |
| 25 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 26 | Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war . |
| 27 | Even if the messages were not true ( and she had no hope that they might be true ) at least somebody believed sufficiently in their truth to pay cash for them , to rent hoardings and to put up posters for them , and that in itself offered some kind of alternative : Christianity meant nothing to her , but she was glad that in despite of her mother 's defection , it existed . |
| 28 | Although the immediate context for the ‘ attack ’ on local government was pressure for overall reductions in public spending and local government spending in particular , few of those writing about it have accepted this as a major explanation , partly because the evidence that levels of local government spending are of major significance to the economy are limited , and the arguments that state spending in itself discourages private investment are also weak . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 30 | The production of new paper from raw wood pulp consumes vast amounts of energy , the production of which in itself causes environmental pollution and adds to the Greenhouse Effect . |