Example sentences of "[adj] way [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 2 | It is one of the devious ways in which we all can behave at times . |
| 3 | The manner in which one says or writes things , those public and therefore never totally adequate ways in which we seek to express our private or inner emotions , always has an implicit as well as an explicit content . |
| 4 | That is , he contends , ‘ to get across clearly , at all levels of Scottish society , the detailed ways in which our scheme would provide better government than the new ( stock-taking ) proposals from Westminster , and would tackle more effectively the major ‘ bread and butter ’ issues which trouble our people ’ . |
| 5 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |
| 6 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 7 | There are a number of different ways in which we can measure wealth . |
| 8 | We have been able to explore , through what they told us , the many different ways in which they respond to this challenge . |
| 9 | There are many words and phrases which can be put into this category in English , and many different ways in which they can be classified . |
| 10 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 11 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 12 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 14 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 15 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 16 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 17 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 18 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 19 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 20 | There is another way in which we can inspect the growth of population , and that is by seeing it at work in all the various classes of society . |
| 21 | There is another way in which we can confirm the role played by climate and the carbon atom in the creation of organic life . |
| 22 | Another way in which we sought to understand the nature of information structure in 5 was by saying that written discourse with a low degree of reciprocity proceeds as though answering a series of ‘ ghost ’ questions . |
| 23 | Another way in which we is by encouraging and facilitating employee volunteering . |
| 24 | Another way in which there needs to be a rapprochement between statistical methods and GIS is in the area of spatial sampling and estimation from spatial samples . |
| 25 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 26 | Here is another way in which you can lord it over you players . |
| 27 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 28 | Montag is astonished by the off-hand way in which they seem to regard the case . |
| 29 | Another example of the love theme is the humorous courting by Wemmick directed towards Miss Shiffins and the funny way in which they ( Pip and Wemmick ) arrive for his marriage with Wemmick ‘ accidentally ’ discovering a church and then a pair of gloves , followed by Miss Shiffins and finally a wedding ring . |
| 30 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |