Example sentences of "in which [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 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 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |
| 4 | First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living . |
| 5 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |
| 6 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The I.L.P. provided James and his fellow colonials , Padmore and Jomo Kenyatta , with a forum in which they could expound upon their own individual ideas concerning nationhood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's by actually looking at , well I , in Bill and Kevin 's appraisal I actually tackled it through their appraisal because we discussed , in quite a lot of depth , erm what their workload and ways in which they could change their workload |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They should not be introduced to a culture that was alien to them , but instead should be taught and guided through their own ‘ working-class ’ culture , in which they could succeed . |
| 13 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 14 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 15 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 16 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 17 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 18 | They do n't have to hunt foxes to do that the motion , the main motion not the amendment suggests drag hunting er they could , there there my , I think it means proper drag hunting not one er to previously er l l laid out er objectives er they could race each other , they can have treasure hunts , er there are plenty of ways in which they could enjoy riding . |
| 19 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 20 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 21 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 24 | Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . ) |
| 25 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There are many ways in which we could meet these specifications in a computer model . |
| 30 | In McNeile 's there were no changing rooms or showers , only foot baths in which we could wash after games , and only two baths and five lavatories for forty-seven of us . |