Example sentences of "situation in [pron] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us compare this with situations in which the issue of race has been involved . |
| 2 | A reverse takeover is one of the situations in which the board of the offeror company must , in accordance with Rule 3.2 , obtain competent independent advice on the offer and make that advice known to its shareholders ( see para 6.4.2 below ) . |
| 3 | One could argue that there are certain situations in which the risk of serious harm is so obvious that it would be right for the law to impose a duty to take care to ascertain the facts before proceeding . |
| 4 | There are however situations in which the value of magnetically stored information is not bit-critical . |
| 5 | In this context My Secret Life , with its vivid anecdotes describing sexual liaisons between masters and servant girls , offers an insight into the situation in which the opportunity for temptation , seduction and rape was often pervasive . |
| 6 | Recession , in making people unemployed , weakens worker organisations and limits the utility of the strike weapon ( the only real weapon of labour ) because labour is reluctant to come out in a situation in which the hold on a job is precarious . |
| 7 | And what you 're saying is that if you get to sufficiently low temperatures , you get a situation in which the resistance in the metal drops to zero . |
| 8 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 9 | Thus by the beginning of 1797 , discounting contributed to a situation in which the adding of £200,000,000 to the debt secured an effective loan of only £108,000,000 . |
| 10 | Another situation in which the total of bankers ' deposits will change arises as a result of transactions between the government and the private sector . |
| 11 | The act itself grew out of uneasy tensions and alliances between middle-class and working-class reformers and the entrenched aristocratic interest , in a situation in which the tie-up between class interests and politics was anything but neat , simple and easy to unravel . |
| 12 | It 's hard to see er er a situation in which the kind of young men that we routinely produce in this country er are not gon na be interested in some kind of group aggressive violent activities . |
| 13 | More data were required but the availability of quantitative data in atmospheric , hydrological and coastal processes , for example , together with the collection of information associated with national mapping programmes such as those for soil survey , produced a situation in which the need for further process studies was highly desirable . |
| 14 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 15 | This case presents a situation in which the commitment for change was high at the top ; but the methods of achieving the change were confused at first , and not enough effort was expended to infuse the total organizational environment with commitment . |
| 16 | And maybe then you would like to see society move towards a situation in which the role of women was recognised in such a way that it was possible for them to leave their babies in creches , would you , or |
| 17 | It also explains why , in severe cases of individual superego-degradation in groups real collective mania can result , a situation in which the tension between an individual 's ego and superego falls to near zero as a consequence of this process . |
| 18 | It may be hard to imagine a situation in which the onset of old age occurs at later ages than in the past , but a hundred years ago or less it was difficult to imagine the present situation in which old age does not effectively begin until people are in their seventies . |
| 19 | Clearly the current situation in which the use of force is illegal except in self-defence is inadequate . |
| 20 | Let us imagine a very clear-cut situation in which the power of the sender over the receiver is considerable : an army sergeant speaking to a private just before parade . |
| 21 | An interaction can be formally defined as a situation in which the effect of one variable upon another depends upon the value of a third variable ; when asked how much effect X has on Y , we are forced to answer : ‘ it depends . ’ |
| 22 | 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society . |