Example sentences of "in [Wh det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this kind of analysis the firm is often represented as a family in which respect for male elders is expressed by using seniority as the least disruptive and most predictable basis for internal promotion . |
| 2 | In the living world too , we shall expect to find complex and sophisticated design wherever we are dealing with the end-products of a long , asymmetric arms race in which advances on one side have always been matched , on a one-to-one , point-for-point basis , by equally successful antidotes ( as opposed to competitors ) on the other . |
| 3 | It is based on the ten superfamilies in which nematodes of veterinary importance occur , and which are conveniently divided into bursate and non-bursate groups as shown in Table 1 . |
| 4 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 5 | Here is an example of the way in which changes at this textual level are normally handled , consciously or subconsciously , by a professional translator . |
| 6 | By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury . |
| 7 | That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that . |
| 8 | The aims of the project are to develop a small quarterly model of the United Kingdom economy and to use this model to investigate the way in which dynamic specification — the way in which lags in economic behaviour are allowed for — is related to forecasting and simulation properties . |
| 9 | Three hours in which to think of all that he had missed . |
| 10 | Under other scenarios in which controls of varying severity are introduced the increases would be from 0.1 ° C to 0.2 ° C each decade . |
| 11 | His analysis ( Garland 1985b , p. 32 ) concludes that ‘ the constraints of legal principle and political ideology ’ produced a system aimed at ‘ uniformity , equality of treatment and proportionality ’ in which concerns for individual reformation played only a very minor part . |
| 12 | The skins gave out the image of an almost robot uniformed army , in which attack on one individual would bring a violent response from the rest . |
| 13 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 14 | Although the practical reasons for the rule ( difficulty in getting access to Parliamentary materials and the cost and delay in researching it ) are not without substance , they can be greatly exaggerated : experience in Commonwealth countries which have abandoned the rule does not suggest that the drawbacks are substantial , provided that the court keeps a tight control on the circumstances in which references to Parliamentary material are allowed . |
| 15 | There is , however , one type of depression in which shifts of daily rhythms are found more regularly — Seasonal Affective Disorder ( SAD ) . |
| 16 | They describe some typical conversations in which comments from one person did not link in an expected way to preceding comments — where there seemed to be a very loose connection between what one person said and the next . |
| 17 | This paper describes an alternative approach whereby the thermal histories of coals from the Palaeozoic and from the Tertiary are deduced from simulation experiments in which samples with different natural maturities are heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 18 | Yeah I think we 're going to have a major say in what goes on this season . |
| 19 | They exchanged a few words in what sounded like Spanish . |
| 20 | ‘ She was the eldest , ’ he murmured in what sounded like reluctant explanation , ‘ but the farm and the house were left to me , as the eldest son . |
| 21 | A hand wrapped itself into his collar and hauled him to his feet , and then his arms were pinned behind his back in what felt like two huge fists . |
| 22 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |
| 23 | The conversation he then conducted in what seemed like good Spanish to me — revealed that the weather in the mountains had improved enough to use helicopters in the search . |
| 24 | She was remembering the revelation that had come to her just a few short moments ago , in what seemed like another age now , before Alexander had kissed her . |
| 25 | They were not the shabby workmen , but were dressed in what looked like blue and white satin . |
| 26 | The room was large , furnished like the private study of a rich and cultured man : desk , chairs and bookcases in what looked like hand-tooled mahogany , a tapestry covering one wall , several ornately framed paintings , a chaise-longue , a couple of wingbacked armchairs . |
| 27 | The first thing I noticed was that the whole of the top half of the house was swathed in what looked like green plastic bandages . |
| 28 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 29 | It is now clear that celebrology is going to play an increasingly important part in what remains of this campaign . |
| 30 | There are two forms of logical shift , which differ in what happens at each end of the binary pattern . |