Example sentences of "in [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Speaking in Vilnius in August 1988 , for instance , he devoted particular attention to ‘ common human interests ’ , such as the conservation of global resources , in which both East and West could cooperate .
32 For instance , if someone knew that John and Mary always talk a lot when they go out , then that inference might be made in the face of example ( 4 ) , leading to a further set of mappings in which both John and Mary map into the same role-slot ( both are agents in a talking schema ) .
33 This was demonstrated by an experiment reported in Harris ( 1977 ) in which both animacy and discourse theme were manipulated .
34 The Raybestos struggle was important as the only struggle in which both workers and community activists were involved , though not , unfortunately , in alliance with each other .
35 There was a sense in which both Whigs and Tories made the Revolution , and could claim it as their own ; but because of the compromises which had to be worked out , both were left feeling dissatisfied with the eventual outcome , something which helps to explain why partisan strife continued to grow in intensity after 1689 .
36 Then this mood would lift , and she could write appreciatively again : ‘ We get snatches of divine loneliness here … why not stay here for ever and ever , enjoying this immortal rhythm in which both soul and eye are at rest ?
37 This is the balance sheet in which both assets and liabilities are recorded at their current market values .
38 The result , the creation of an atmosphere in which both client and caterer can gain — our aim was , and still is , to create a highly personal business partnership between the client and ourselves . ’
39 The eagerness of senators to address voter anxiety over the current level of crime in advance of the 1992 elections was demonstrated by the manner in which both Democrats and Republicans attempted to claim credit for the anti-crime package .
40 Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place .
41 Ideally , good management in education is a discreet matter but one in which nevertheless training can be offered .
42 A well-loved scene in Dickens ’ Bleak House is the one in which little Jo , the crossing-sweeper , first hears of God :
43 She ( 1967 , p. 300 ) broke with such an implicitly Arnoldian view of art as a ‘ criticism of life ’ and instead endorsed a Nietzschean aesthetic in which even ideas should function as ‘ sensory stimulants ’ and in which art is an extension of or a ‘ supplement ’ to life .
44 In the Republican contest , in which neither Buchanan nor Bush appeared on the ballot paper , a slate of uncommitted candidates won 31 per cent of the Republican vote , thereby underlining the widespread dissatisfaction felt towards Bush .
45 From the very beginning of his career as a trade union official he had envisaged that the ideal situation would be one in which neither employer nor union attempted to dominate the employment situation , but in which both sides met on a conciliation board and jointly regulated the terms and conditions under which seamen followed their vocation and perhaps even the rates at which freight and passengers were transported .
46 In any event , cases in which neither misrepresentation nor undue influence play any part can not , in my opinion , be explained by reference to the debtor husband 's status as agent for the creditor .
47 Famed for its set-piece shower stabbing ( in which neither Janet Leigh nor Tony Perkins were involved , and the blood substitute is actually chocolate sauce ) and sudden , violent murders , Psycho may also be Hitchcock 's saddest film .
48 The conversation , in which neither Stephen nor Dadda took part , then turned upon whether " danger list " was merely a figurative term or if hospitals actually maintained such ominous catalogues .
49 Three patterns of distributions of authorship number are suggested by these my data : ( a ) the ‘ left shifted ’ pattern seen in high profile basic research journals ( Nature , Cell ) , in which over 90% of articles have one to five authors ( mode 2 ) ; ( b ) the ‘ right shifted ’ pattern characterised by few small group studies and many large group studies ( mode 7 ) seen in low profile basic research ( BBRC ) and clinical research ( JCO ) journals ; and ( c ) a rapid fall from six to seven authors ( mode 6 ) in general medical journals ( NEJM , Lancet ) .
50 POLICE are appealing for information following a burglary at a Middlesbrough business centre in which over £40,000 worth of photocopiers and fax machines were stolen .
51 In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately .
52 While , since the changes recommended by Griffiths , there is a key managerial cadre in district health authorities , health remains an area of social policy in which professionals-particularly doctors and nurses — have extensive degrees of autonomy .
53 While it would be nice to imagine an alternative history in which either Miss Black or Miss Irwin succeeded in organizing the women compositors , who then ended up with a reading-room full of the encyclopaedias they had themselves typeset , it was not to be .
54 For these upper levels of control ( by contrast to the lower levels of those who were far more controlled than controlling ) , employment could constitute a career in which either seniority or achievement might be the basis for advancement .
55 What was this glider doing on an operation in which apparently gliders were not involved ?
56 In ways that are seldom very clear , although in which inevitably revelation plays a part , the terrestrial instruments of the Divine ( the Biblical prophets , the rabbis , Mohammed and the Koran , Christ and the Bible ) derive from these natural laws not only the more temporal and local moral paraphernalia but also , in collaboration with jurists , dictate the content of the civil law .
57 At the same time , the MDC was doubled in size by the addition of 800 acres on either side of the River Mersey in which about £90 million will be spent over eight years .
58 The only way to show work is to show it either absolutely by itself , in a very plain setting , so that you can notice every detail of how the light falls on it and so on , or to show it with other absolutely minimal works , so again you get this utter simplicity and you become very aware of the space in which the thing is hanging and so on , but there must be a very clear , simple setting , as indeed for new classicism , and I sometimes think that this kind of art is the son or grandson of new classicism , in which incidentally Britain was the leading country .
59 Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy .
60 One of the issues raised by OPEC , in intervals between efforts to raise the unit price of crude oil , was the periodic decline in the value of the currency in which all crude oil trading is conducted , and in which therefore OPEC members ' revenues were received .
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