Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 2 | But to survive an arrow a mile from a road with a killer around to make sure I did n't make it … where in one 's mind did one search for the will to survive that ? |
| 3 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 4 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 5 | Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ . |
| 6 | There are cases , however , in which the trustee is not addressed with a request , or in which no words purporting to constitute a trust are used at all . |
| 7 | To be successful the direction-shifts of the fleeing animal must be irregular so that the predator can not anticipate either when or in which direction the next change of course will be . |
| 8 | No claim is made for the universal usefulness of this definition ; others would have to be found for societies in which law is not defined by a relatively clear , usually written , set of rules , or in which no distinction is made between civil and criminal law . |
| 9 | It would be difficult to justify an economic system in which wages were determined by a form of lottery ; or in which monopoly and exploitation were the order of day ; or in which each person earned the same wage regardless of effort , risk or training . |
| 10 | It would be difficult to justify an economic system in which wages were determined by a form of lottery ; or in which monopoly and exploitation were the order of day ; or in which each person earned the same wage regardless of effort , risk or training . |
| 11 | for proceeding to or returning from a workshop in which a body or a special type of equipment or accessory is to be or has been fitted to it or in which it is to be or has been painted , valeted or repaired ; |
| 12 | BGS staff carry out some of these programmes ; others are cooperative projects between university groups and BGS , or in which BGS staff supervise research students . |
| 13 | A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement . |
| 14 | It is important to study the areas in which women have been neglected or in which their treatment has been biased , but one should not make a fetish about the quasi-religious , unique properties of women . |
| 15 | Newborn screening for genetic and other disorders is usually confined to diseases for which there is treatment — either a change of diet ( as in phenylketonuria and galactosaemia ) or replacement therapy ( as in hypothyroidism ) — or in which there is a chance of affecting morbidity or mortality early in life , as occurs in the haemoglobinopathies ( particularly sickle cell disease ) . |
| 16 | Once , I could n't remember how many breaks for rain there were or in which session I scored my hundred . |
| 17 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 18 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 19 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 20 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 21 | The main argument is summarized by McKendrick : ‘ In a society in which the social distance between classes is too great to bridge , as say between a landed aristocracy and a landless peasantry , or in which the distance is unbridgeable , as in a caste society , then new patterns of increased expenditure on consumer goods are extremely difficult if not impossible to induce ‘ ( 1983 : 20 ) . |
| 22 | the sale or purchase of goods , being goods either usually employed by the firm for its own business , or in which the firm deals , or goods belonging to the firm ; |
| 23 | Considerable attention is currently being given to the production of H-H objects by jets that precess or in which the jet velocity varies . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 25 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |
| 26 | It is from this group that more collapses are likely or in which reorganizations and consolidations will occur . |
| 27 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 28 | There may well be other regions of the universe , or other universes ( whatever that may mean ) , in which all the dimensions are curled up small or in which more than four dimensions are nearly flat , but there would be no intelligent beings in such regions to observe the different number of effective dimensions . |
| 29 | And she had no doubt that Tristan would listen when she explained to him what it was she wished him to say on her behalf , or in which direction she wished him to urge her to go . |
| 30 | Messages indicate whether the card is correctly placed , or in which of the four principal direction(s) it is out of position . |