Example sentences of "condition in [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of physicians at Harvard University has pioneered the use of monoclonal antibodies to combat graft-versus-host disease , a condition in which specific cells in the body turn on other body tissues . |
| 2 | Barrett 's columnar lined oesophagus is defined as the condition in which columnar type epithelium is found at least 3 cm above the distal end of the oesophagus as endoscopically defined . |
| 3 | The prevalence of incontinence according to the International Continence Society 's definition — a condition in which involuntary loss of urine is a social or hygienic problem and is objectively demonstrable — is unknown . |
| 4 | It was fashionable at the time to study the colloidal state , a condition in which small molecules are associated in loose , somewhat indefinite aggregates . |
| 5 | Prosopagnosia is a rare clinical condition in which visual recognition of faces is impaired as a result of brain damage . |
| 6 | Bullock and Gelman also included a condition in which temporal priority conflicted with spatial proximity as a basis for judging which event was the cause . |
| 7 | AIDS is therefore a condition in which progressive damage to the immune system makes people more vulnerable to developing certain illnesses . |
| 8 | The classic statement of this view by T. H. Marshall ( 1950 ; reprinted in Marshall and Bottomore , 1992 ) conceived citizenship as a condition in which all members of a society possessed clearly defined and steadily expanding civil , political and social rights ; and in this sense it embodied a principle of equality which brought it into conflict with the inequalities engendered by a capitalist economy or existing in various authoritarian regimes . |
| 9 | Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards and generally easy credit facilities is not merely the privilege of the rich but can be a devastating condition in which inappropriate grandiosity repeatedly causes havoc with all efforts towards financial prudence . |
| 10 | Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time . |
| 11 | The physical conditions in which many prisoners had to live continued , therefore , in many cases , to border on the intolerable . |
| 12 | The programme , which began in the early 1970s , aimed at helping students to reassess their own assumptions by giving them first-hand experience of the life and social conditions in which many children grow and develop . |
| 13 | Furthermore , while a revitalized ruling and administering class might be seen to require infusions of men of wealth and leadership from slightly lower social layers , this could prove acceptable only under conditions in which new procedures for educational cultivation had been established . |
| 14 | These relatively complex communicative demands establish the conditions in which simple gestures , such as pointing , are particularly useful . |
| 15 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 16 | In this respect , we are unhappy about the weak advice on enforcement action which places undue emphasis on negotiation rather than serious punitive action which can actually create conditions in which effective negotiations can take place . |
| 17 | The conditions in which verbal report becomes useful in clarifying problem solving strategy and as a source of information for improving the diagnostic performance of novices . |
| 18 | They believe that , while a person may actually have performed one action , they could nevertheless have chosen to perform another , and devote part of their energy to specifying the sorts of conditions in which such choices are made . |
| 19 | It follows that in order to clarify the background to meaningful identifying references to ontological existents , it is necessary to investigate the manner and conditions in which such existents are constituted as target-topics in relevant experiences . |
| 20 | The boarding-out committees were to appoint salaried female visitors to visit boarded-out children and widows with children receiving out-door relief , and to supervise the conditions in which Poor Law children were working in service or as apprentices . |
| 21 | Our questions are thus more concerned with preferences than with boundary conditions in which plural references may become impossible . |
| 22 | The final G7 communiqué referred to the conditions in which global interest rates would be cut , not raised . |
| 23 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 24 | Charles Tilly ( 1975 ) , in his introduction and conclusion to a volume which examines in detail some major aspects of the development of national states in Western Europe , considers the specific conditions in which these states began to emerge from the beginning of the sixteenth century , outlines their distinctive features , and reviews the causes of their development and eventual dominance . |
| 25 | However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work . |
| 26 | The Times of 16 June was nearer the mark when it said ‘ … comments have gone farther in the direction of pessimism than appears to be justified ’ and reminded readers that ‘ the objects of the ZETA experiments were to produce and maintain high temperatures and to study the conditions in which these temperatures are produced as an aid to later stages in design . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This lies , rather , in formulation and acceptance by teachers themselves of new , less control-centred educational purposes , along with an easing of the constraints and conditions in which those purposes are to be fulfilled . |
| 30 | But the conditions in which this challenge becomes significant are social ones rather than ‘ technological ’ as Goody would have us believe . |