Example sentences of "context in which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory proscription following the Hanoverian Succession and the failure of the " Fifteen fundamentally changed the context in which political strife was fought out . |
| 2 | At no point in the document is account taken of the context in which Religious Education is presented in the Catholic school , namely that of a faith-sharing community and this does not presume the commitment level of any individual . |
| 3 | Fiction and drama , when they are done well and provide a convincing , realistic context in which serious crimes occur , can often enable us to imagine ourselves doing things which , in the abstract description , we would consider impossible . |
| 4 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 5 | In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live . |
| 6 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 7 | Mm , there may be a need post two thousand and six for a further settlement , we wo n't know until we see , we do n't know the strategic policy context in which that decision will be taken , nor nor of course exactly what sort of demographic requirements may be arising in that period . |
| 8 | To be able to do this creates a context in which effective bargaining can be conducted . |
| 9 | Some aspects of travellers ' lives , of the collective context in which individual problems arise , can be very visible . |
| 10 | It is a dynamic synthesis that the sociology of knowledge aims for , a context in which critical debate can continually reformulate the problem and its resolution : |
| 11 | So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use . |
| 12 | Some of the simpler systems provide a context in which certain ideas about turbulent flow may be elucidated ; e.g. the analysis of the closure problem in the appendix to this chapter . |
| 13 | Sociology has an important role to play in exploding myths and misconceptions about social phenomena and institutions , and in providing a context in which controversial issues can be examined critically and analytically . |
| 14 | As the context in which many mothers experience poverty , the gendered organisation of care gives the experience a particular edge . |
| 15 | In a less extreme way , however , gender divisions provide the everyday context in which many mothers confront household poverty . |
| 16 | Secondly , the perceptions of those adopting a change varied with the context in which each person worked , even within individual institutions . |
| 17 | The political , ideological and cultural context in which each novel was produced will be at the forefront of the textual analysis in Chapter 7 . |
| 18 | Most analysts simply assume that it is not , calling to an " infinitive marker " and confining themselves to an enumeration of the types of context in which each form of the infinitive is found ( cf. |
| 19 | In the first three sections of this chapter we will outline the legal framework and organizational context in which each set of decisions is taken , and will also say something about the decision-makers themselves . |
| 20 | One context in which multiple-objective problems arise is when the objective function can be one of several possibilities , which one being determined by external factors beyond the control of the decision-maker . |
| 21 | The decay of older loyalties with the onset of the colonial era provided a new social context in which these limitations on entrepreneurs no longer applied . |
| 22 | In this particular case there was no detriment to road safety as matters turned out , but nonetheless that is the context in which these regulations must be considered . |
| 23 | Finally , I urge again that it is of crucial importance to remember the factual context in which these problems may arise . |
| 24 | The languages they use and the social and historical context in which these languages signify are indirect and direct revelations of that power and its limitations . |
| 25 | What is at issue is precisely the ‘ cultural ’ context in which these solutions have to work . |
| 26 | The context in which these comments were made was an unusual one . |
| 27 | And the central point about localities is that they provide the context in which these combinations of social processes take place and in which people act as a result of such combinations . |
| 28 | However , Hirschi does not consider the wider social context in which these relationships operate , in the way that earlier sociological theories did . |
| 29 | Maternal needs and instincts are amongst the most potent human motivations , and the product is strongly associated with the context in which these needs are expressed and satisfied . |
| 30 | This work makes systematic the fact that localities and locales are the context in which human interactions and conversations take place . |