Example sentences of "in which [pers pn] [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
| 2 | Martin had happily seen U21 rugby fully established as third in line in the English rugby hierarchy , and he thoroughly deserved the presentation made to him during the Trent College week by the panel to mark the esteem in which he is universally held . |
| 3 | Linguistically , thereby , the merchant weaves a number of strands into the net in which he is eventually caught , innocent and unknowing to the last . |
| 4 | ‘ Though he is famous for the extension of his territories and conquests in which he is constantly engaged , he has also started many public works for the beauty and convenience of the realm ; some of these he has completed , and a great part of his wealth is set aside for pious honouring of his ancestors . |
| 5 | Gibson plays a fearless test pilot in 1939 who , following a personal tragedy , volunteers for a top-secret experiment in which he is accidentally put into frozen slumber for more than 50 years . |
| 6 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 7 | Taxonomy should be a common descriptive backbone to research in plant sciences , but the way in which it is conventionally presented makes such use difficult for the non-taxonomist . |
| 8 | First , the aim in which it is designed and manufactured ; second , the retail chain that distributes it ; and third , the households in which it is finally used . |
| 9 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 10 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 11 | They may conveniently be divided into those in which it is explicitly stated that intention matters particularly , and those in which that is a matter of how the text is interpreted . |
| 12 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 13 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 14 | Its continuing fascination for the public owes much to the way in which it is inextricably linked with a real-life ‘ romance ’ : in the summer of 1857 , if not before , Wallis and Meredith 's wife , Mary Ellen , daughter of Thomas Love Peacock [ q.v. ] , became lovers . |
| 15 | Syntax ( in the broad sense in which it is commonly used today ) is the level of lexico-grammatical form which mediates between the levels of sound and meaning . |