Example sentences of "in [pron] [indef pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes .
2 The Profitboss develops an organization in which entrepreneurial spirit is encouraged not stilled in which everyone can develop an " entrepreneurial eye " .
3 In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means .
4 Since subscriptions for membership have not been increased this year , one way in which everyone could help would be to add a donation — no matter how small — when sending in their subscription fee .
5 Otherwise , it would by now have degenerated into a state of complete disorder , in which everything would be at the same temperature .
6 The space created will be like a tented temple in which everything may be seen in a different landscape , the familiar becomes strange and muted whilst the unfamiliar echoes past resemblances .
7 A situation has arisen in which something must be done at once .
8 Speaking of the aims of Christian Aid , he illustrated ways in which something could be done , by describing our Sale and saying ‘ If I 'm proud of anything , I 'm proud of that ’ .
9 Natural theology , even of Brunner 's qualified kind , could only be a snare and a delusion , a thing in which one ought to have no interest except that properly shown for an abyss beside the path — the interest whose concern is to avoid falling into it .
10 For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them .
11 Such a theory might claim , for instance , that to understand a proposition is to be able to tell the difference between circumstances in which one would be justified in believing it and those in which one would not .
12 Such a theory might claim , for instance , that to understand a proposition is to be able to tell the difference between circumstances in which one would be justified in believing it and those in which one would not .
13 The other interesting mixed show this week is the Bluecoat Christmas Annual , in which one may sense the up-and-coming nature of work in all media by Liverpool artists .
14 There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race .
15 The skeletal muscles of insects have a complex structure , in which one may distinguish ( i ) the fibrous contractile system , ( ii ) the mitochondria , ( iii ) the tracheal and nervous supply , and ( iv ) the membrane systems ( Smith , 1961 — 66 ) .
16 There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law .
17 Four different ways have been suggested in which one might seek a resolution of the problem of the collapse of the wavepacket .
18 Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’
19 competent enough vignettes of the witty , intelligent circles in which one might expect to discover Miss Iris Murdoch , and their end result was not far removed from the sum of of [ sic ] the parts of Miss Murdoch 's own elegant conundrums .
20 There are several ways in which one might explain why priming effects are not cross-modal .
21 So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey .
22 Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ .
23 A word is not a category at all in the sense used : since a text may be decomposed entirely into a sequence of words , there is no linguistic sense in which one could choose to use something else instead of a word .
24 Eupolemus , who was Judas Maccabaeus ' envoy to Rome in 161 B.C. , composed a work in which one could read an exchange of letters between the twelve-year-old Solomon and his client kings Vaphres of Egypt and Suron of Tyre ( Eusebius , Praep .
25 The only way in which one could incorporate such fine-grained information from the Text710 would be to completely re-tag the LOB corpus .
26 A crystal ball in which one can call up the past ?
27 Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics .
28 There is perhaps only one situation in which one can envisage the majority speaking , and it is not a voice which one wants to hear .
29 There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others .
30 The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation .
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