Example sentences of "in which some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ii ) Modified re-buy decisions : relate to purchase situations in which some kind of review is called for . |
| 2 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 3 | On landing I sought for the cottage occupied by the Duke of Hamilton 's piper , in which some friends had found most comfortable quarters the season before . |
| 4 | But a democracy in which some groups , ethnic , religious or political , are permanently in a minority , and so in opposition , is likely to be unstable and may lose legitimacy . |
| 5 | There was seldom a meeting in which some speaker did not refer to the need for disestablishment and resolutions were passed in support of Welsh disestablishment , temperance and international arbitration , and against Tory bills on education . |
| 6 | Clearly it could not be — every comment , piece of advice or statement on the radio could hardly be regarded as official policy — and yet the broadcasters ' feeling that they were ‘ a part of the Government ’ certainly acted as an inhibitor on the manner in which some matters were handled on the air . |
| 7 | We observed one very tense episode in which some panel members believed that in the act of creation the panel had been granted independence from the coordinating committee . |
| 8 | Secondly , that it is politically naive , because such an argument could be said to justify the kind of political move I have just mentioned , in which some institutions of higher education might be denied research funding . |
| 9 | The message is even more explicit in The Four Just Men ( 1939 ) , a tale of derring-do in which some chaps set out to warn the nation of a demonic plan to destroy the British Empire , leaving world domination in one man 's hands . |
| 10 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 11 | It replaced the term ‘ subnormality ’ , which itself replaced ‘ mental deficiency ’ as the formal description of a wide range of conditions in which some degree of subnormal intelligence is the only common factor . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman identified the way in which some home help services have been moving towards home care services . |
| 13 | This was small beer by the standards of today 's Third World which ( outside China ) is growing at 2.5 per cent per year and in which some countries ( Kenya , Zambia , Syria ) approach 4 per cent . |
| 14 | Some of the third party claims examined will be based upon recognised legal rights and obligations , but others are based upon certain needs in which some merit is recognised by members of the international community . |
| 15 | There are two items already with us that are symptomatic of the reduced trust and respect in which some ministers hold teachers . |
| 16 | Although it is again not possible to attribute developments definitely and exclusively to the project , the project must take at least some of the credit for the business-like way in which some school libraries now operate . |
| 17 | The questions which arise in aircraft accident investigation usually relate to the boundaries of radio technology — things such as trying to establish the radio propagation conditions in which some phenomenon or other gives rise to a kink in an instrument landing system localiser or glide slope but only on an intermittent basis , or the reliability of a radio altimeter in an auto-land system during an approach over surfaces with greatly differing radio reflecting characteristics . |
| 18 | Spencer has always longed to have a Spitfire and one day Mike Searle , presumably having recovered from the shock of the Jungmann episode ( see the September issue , page 25 ) , pointed out an advertisement in which some Spitfires were for sale at Strathallan in Scotland . |
| 19 | We must consider the way in which some Departments operate . |
| 20 | A smooth curve of accesses in which some records are updated more regularly than others . |
| 21 | But the god whose sleep had been disturbed was not yet appeased , and after the unfairness of indiscriminate punishment had been discussed , a system was set up in which some women avoided childbirth by entering religious orders , while others lost infants through disease , thus limiting the population . |
| 22 | A report by the Cancer Research Campaign and Action on Smoking and Health highlights the way in which some women 's smoking habits are shaped by the conditions in which they live . |
| 23 | To recap then , there are two ways in which some awareness of credit costs may influence people 's shopping : their subjective impression of comparative costliness , which tends to be reasonably realistic ; and their objective awareness of interest rates and so forth , which tends to be sketchy , and — given American experience — even with increasing familiarity after implementation of Consumer Credit Act quotations and advertising regulations is likely to remain divorced from their actual understanding of the cost of individual credit transactions . |
| 24 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 25 | Many problems which arise from such trades are caused by ‘ bad housekeeping ’ , used figuratively to describe the way in which some businesses carelessly handle and store raw materials such as slaughterhouse waste . |
| 26 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 27 | This was the way in which some Communists reacted to the advent of Nazism in 1933 . |
| 28 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 29 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 30 | A special commission of the Bulgarian government uncovered the existence of concentration camps which had operated in the 1950s and 1960s in which some prisoners were tortured and killed . |