Example sentences of "in [Wh det] [indef pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can only be done , he suggests , by moving away from hierarchy and towards a position in which everyone is a manager . |
| 2 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 3 | The great game of cricket is now in danger of becoming the sport in which everyone is frightened of telling the truth . |
| 4 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 5 | Labour is determined to create a ‘ skills-culture ’ in which everyone is entitled to go on learning throughout their working life . |
| 6 | The faulty programming of work in a situation in which everyone was trying to beat the planners , and having variable success , but not producing whole working power stations , was clearly ludicrous . |
| 7 | For this building , in which everything is done in the grandest and strangest way , Mr Subirachs is making 75 pieces that trace the Passion of Christ . |
| 8 | The li as a whole is the cosmic pattern which lays down the lines along which nature and man move , which harmonizes opposites with complementary functions , Yin and Yang , ruler and subject , father and son , and alternates day and night , birth and death , the rise and fall of dynasties , in regular cycles , diverging downwards to the minutest detail of texture and converging upwards to the unity in which everything is interrelated . |
| 9 | This is a subservient way of talking in which everything is hedged about and nothing asserted outright . |
| 10 | Is it referring just to a triumphalistic idea of atonement in which everything is just alright in the end ? |
| 11 | YUP PA A book in which everything is understandable except the author 's purpose in writing it |
| 12 | The second commendation came from the site agent at the PSA who was particularly impressed with the organisation of the work and the way in which everything was cleared up afterwards . |
| 13 | It was very difficult to find experienced people … in fields in which everything was destroyed for 50 successive years . " |
| 14 | Early reports played down the seriousness of the incident , in which no-one was injured . |
| 15 | Security was intensified in preparation for Bush 's visit ; there were six bomb attacks , in which no-one was injured , against US targets in Athens on July 16-17 . |
| 16 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 17 | There 's a sense in which the very best type of interview , the very best sort of particularly on something like radio or television , is one in which somebody is not being manipulated by somebody else , but is genuinely a sort of backwards and forwards situation . |
| 18 | YUPPA GA Stomach ache masquerading as eyestrain ; a book in which nothing is understandable except the author 's purpose in writing it |
| 19 | Elinor believed that her novels provided her readers with excitement , helped them to escape from insecurity and anxiety , frustration and drudgery , misery and sorrow , and of course , the boring daily routine of a life in which nothing was likely to change . |
| 20 | The image I had of whole group drama when I was first introduced to the idea was of a large crowd scene in which everybody was acting as a group . |
| 21 | Somewhat perversely , however , what I want to retain from Adorno , and from his consistent reproach , is the centrality of difference as negation rather than as variation : a difference which is not ‘ indifferent ’ , but in which something is at stake ; and a difference , more difficultly , which is not solely dependent on what Raymond Williams somewhere calls ‘ the more negotiable process of consumption ’ . |
| 22 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 23 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 24 | But they will not have the pressures of other couples in which one is divorced . |
| 25 | It is to surrender all purposeful hope of changing , through literature or any other means , the world in which one is bound to live . |
| 26 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 27 | Indeed , before one can decide what action is appropriate one requires an understanding of the social context in which one is acting and an interpretation of the actions occurring in that context . |
| 28 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 29 | In small-scale and closely knit communities , where self-respect is very closely tied up with the esteem in which one is held by one 's fellows , any sanction of this sort designed to erode it is likely to be particularly effective . |
| 30 | Since then , fortunately , Honoré 's admirable book Sex Law has been published and one feels exonerated from any need to provide a lengthy disquisition on a subject in which one is far from expert . |