Example sentences of "in a [noun] which [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 2 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 3 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 4 | [ 3 ] The senator made a postprandial oration. and points out that these are variants of the original in a sense which is not true , for example , of " Columbus was brave " or " Columbus was nautical " . |
| 5 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |
| 6 | First , the sending State 's liability arises from acts that may be committed in a country which is not a party to the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 7 | They have taken over and breed in a pride which is not the one in which they were born . |
| 8 | Yet the counsellor has to have the ability to focus on difficult and distressing areas in a way which is not threatening to the counsellee . |
| 9 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 10 | They also learn to plan and edit their own writing in a way which is not common to most everyday uses of written language . |
| 11 | It is a natural consequence that the discourse analyst will be interested in the results of psycholinguistic processing experiments in a way which is not typical of the sentence-grammarian . |
| 12 | Roadburg surmises that adolescent gang violence against persons and property is common to both societies , but that soccer acts as a vehicle of expression for deprived or disaffected youth in Britain in a way which is not possible in America . |
| 13 | These provide an opportunity for the tutor and the students to respond to each other and to discuss problems in a way which is not possible with the normal marking of test papers at a distance . |
| 14 | Would you , if your soccer partner was getting to know you marital partner in a way which is not optimally conducive to homely bliss . |
| 15 | In some eggs like the sea-urchin and the frog egg there is , from the beginning , a well-defined polarity in the egg which defines an axis with respect to which the antero-posterior axis and dorso-ventral axis will be specified , but in a manner which is not straightforward . |
| 16 | fur the mouse egg there are no axes and both the antero-posterior and dorso-ventral are specified , in a manner which is not yet understood , during development . |
| 17 | However , it is curious to find , looking at this series of photographs , that biography appears to progress in a manner which is not linear but cyclical . |
| 18 | In summary , it is likely that the effect of the social role assigned to the fieldworker might be quite complex , with status , sex , age and ethnicity interacting in a manner which is not always initially obvious . |
| 19 | Several studies , for example , show that policy outputs vary from authority to authority in a manner which is not simply related to differing resources or needs . |
| 20 | I am extremely playful in that sense and I believe it 's the only form of fun possible in a world which is n't always much fun . |
| 21 | It was of course a hallmark of our first sceptical argument that it started from an imaginary case in which you are a brain in a vat which is not discernibly different from your present case . |
| 22 | existed before the construction of the defences , but in a form which is not yet entirely visible to archaeology , and |