Example sentences of "way [prep] [Wh det] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor that by marrying John Carrow her daughter had behaved in a wicked , even if understandable , way for which they were all now paying the price . |
| 2 | Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ? |
| 3 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 4 | No matter how well intentioned an author may be , no matter how good his work is considered , a lavish photographic book of this kind , and of this price , must stand or fall on the sheer quality of the pictures selected and the way in which they are presented . |
| 5 | Despite the chaotic and inconsistent way in which they were applied to Poland , they had , on balance , an ultimately positive effect . |
| 6 | Himself unspeaking , armed with his razor he reduces life to the level of a primitive ‘ shriek ’ with which ‘ the ladies of the corridor ’ , despite the way in which they ‘ Call witness to their principles/ And deprecate the lack of taste ’ , find themselves inescapably ‘ involved ’ . |
| 7 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 8 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 9 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 10 | Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved . |
| 11 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 12 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 13 | Grant 's responsibilities at John Dickinson provided him with a wide knowledge of the paper manufacturing processes used throughout the world and the way in which they were being improved . |
| 14 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 15 | Take the last five complaints that have been received by the school and analyse the way in which they were handled . |
| 16 | The way in which they are applied has a crucial effect and having determined ratios between chemical and kinetic energy and heat it is important that a full allowance is made for the time required . |
| 17 | One way in which they cooperate is to make proposals that they both know the other side will not accept . |
| 18 | Traditional they may be by instrumentation , but the way in which they apply their collective noises is unique . |
| 19 | Another indication that our medieval forebears had very different standards from ours for recording the lapse of time is revealed by the way in which they dated their letters . |
| 20 | Skip a lunch … is one way in which they can be remembered and helped . ’ |
| 21 | Information on a variety of matters , such as the reasons for the proposed job losses and the way in which they are intended to occur , must be disclosed in writing . |
| 22 | I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant . |
| 23 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 24 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 25 | Smashing milk bottles is a good example of this since it typifies the way in which they are put into effect . |
| 26 | John MacCunn , Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of several standard texts on citizenship and character , was keen to impress upon his readers that rights alone did not make the citizen ; what mattered was the way in which they were used : democracy itself was only a beginning , not an end . |
| 27 | It will be necessary to run through the examples in the Digest to illustrate the contexts in which these practices are found and the way in which they are interpreted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The way in which they try to break those ties may often be brutal and very painful for the mother , but the instinct is right . |
| 30 | 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 . |