Example sentences of "way [prep] [Wh det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of the almost natural way in which particularly young middle-class girls , but by no means only they , repressed all behaviour and thoughts concerning sex , one could say , that in many respects the preceding middle-class generations had to restrain their sexual — and possibly other — urges and inclinations , because these controls functioned quite blindly , beyond the conscious control of the individuals concerned … . |
| 2 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 3 | This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity . |
| 4 | A good illustration of this is the way in which today 's images and meanings of the monarchy have been successfully layered onto the more popular and spectacular historic traditions — so ignoring less popular and controversial republican ones — and , at the same time , given a contemporary appearance . |
| 5 | What has to be opened up is the unsupervised way in which internationally and nationally the sum of all our communications is sucked up into the electronic vacuum cleaner that is Cheltenham |
| 6 | Another way in which initially simple models of language comprehension have had to be modified is illustrated by another topic we discussed in this chapter , namely , the relation between syntactic and semantic processing . |
| 7 | Yes he 'll have mentioned the United States on occasions I hope cos he teaches the United States , yeah , well as you know I mean there are a number of separate powers , there 's the presidential erm there 's the presidential power , in foreign policy making I 'm talking about , there 's president , there 's the congress there 's the Pentagon , there 's the secretary of state for foreign affairs as well , and one of the characteristics of American policy is the way in which sometimes they can be ha be pursuing separate erm aims and using different methods . |
| 8 | Finding a way in which fully to involve parents and governors takes time . |
| 9 | A desperately sad aspect of the modern family is the way in which so much lavish attention is spent on the ( small number of ) children who after a life of smothering contact with their parents grow up and become almost strangers . |
| 10 | The Federal Republic of Germany has had both because of its electoral system and the decentralised way in which so much of Germany is governed , where many decisions are taken by the regions . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 12 | A symbol which is a male symbol appears in our culture to represent maleness , in a way in which earlier this may not necessarily have been the case . |
| 13 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 14 | The particular focus of interest is on the way in which very rapid technology change influences the firm 's market ‘ participation ’ — defined in the broadest sense , to include product strategy , pre-announcements , patenting and licencing — and hence affects market structure . |
| 15 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 16 | It is also relevant to the teacher to have some information about the way in which visually handicapped pupils are identified since they will have passed through these procedures before being in their present school . |
| 17 | One of the most controversial aspects of the 1985 Act was the way in which crucially important services hitherto provided by the GLC and the six ‘ mets ’ were transferred not to elected second-tier authorities but to non-directly elected joint boards . |