Example sentences of "ways which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the effect of creating an opposition between established custom within which teachers feel secure and new ways which they are under pressure to adopt in the interests of progress . |
| 2 | Pupils should be encouraged to respond to all forms of literature in ways which they find pleasurable , and hence which are likely to promote understanding . |
| 3 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 4 | Being a teacher today constitutes for many just such an intense set of pressures , stresses , conflicts and uncertainties which often leads people to behave in ways which they do not like , but seem powerless to control . |
| 5 | Here classical elite theorists proved hard to pin down , specifying the ruling elite in different ways which they made little attempt to operationalize in empirical work . |
| 6 | On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others . |
| 7 | A way of allowing users to search through different types of data — text , images , sound , moving pictures — in ways which they can control . |
| 8 | As far as acquisition of language is concerned , it seems clear that reinforcement , casual observation , and natural inquisitiveness ( coupled with a strong tendency to imitate ) are important factors , as is the remarkable capacity of the child to generalise , hypothesise and ‘ process information ’ in a variety of very special and apparently highly complex ways which we can not yet describe or begin to understand , and which may be largely innate , or may develop through some sort of learning or through maturation of the nervous system . |
| 9 | It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee . |
| 10 | Conservatives ( and Christian feminists also to some extent ) seek alternative ways in which the female can be symbolized in the religion , ways which it must be thought are less than satisfactory , and which become increasingly unsatisfactory as that for which women stand in our society changes . |
| 11 | But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see . |
| 12 | It was easy to surrender your independence in ways which you hardly realised until too late . |
| 13 | As you very well know , Sir Conrad was determined to reform the club in a lot of ways which you did n't like . |
| 14 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |