Example sentences of "[det] in [Wh det] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 2 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 3 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 4 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 5 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 7 | It is now clear that ‘ the published state of the Principia … is exactly that in which it was written . ’ |
| 8 | When you have finished studying the web-building of your spider , release it in a place similar to that in which it was found . |
| 9 | Senior managers could expect to receive all or some of the following benefits : food on duty , accommodation , a car for business and private use plus running costs , one month ; s annual leave or more with at least one return air ticket to his country of origin for himself and his family , full medical and life cover , and possibly even school fees for his children either in the country of origin or that in which he is based . |
| 10 | The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 . |
| 11 | The annual report for 1862–3 , by the Secretary Phoebe Blyth , lists the following occupations as those in which it was trying to place women : Teachers … female missionaries and Bible women , sick nurses , book-keepers , colourists and printers of photographs , hairdressers , shop girls , waitresses , copyists , amanuenses , dressmakers , upholsterers , sewers … from finest embroidery to sewing machines , knitters and daily workers [ i.e. charwomen ] . |
| 12 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 13 | One of this aims is to develop an understanding of both in which they are seen as essential to one another . |