Example sentences of "in which [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 3 described the web of relationships of pre-colonial societies in which kinship was the prime determinant of obligation and responsibility . |
| 2 | The unlikelihood of the urban parish continuing to exhibit the features of a self-standing community has also been revealed by research showing the way in which kinship and friendship contacts are kept up over ever increasing geographical distances , largely because of mass car and telephone ownership . |
| 3 | The Hawick policeman told me it was a very serious accident in which Moira , Rachel , Fiona and Alastair had all been involved : they had been taken to different hospitals but he did not know the extent of their injuries or any other details . |
| 4 | The epidemiologist 's ‘ patients ’ are whole populations , in which illness must be measured by averages and percentages , rates and risks . |
| 5 | The second requires a social psychology of the symbolic universe in which acts are endowed with meaning and the commonsense accounts which are offered within such a universe to render the imposed concept of deviance intelligible . |
| 6 | The initiators of these popular committees were well aware of the way in which Israel had lopped off the leadership of previous political , labour and social movements . |
| 7 | Secondly , HRP is only available for complete tax years in which earnings were less than 52 times the lower earnings limit . |
| 8 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 9 | In the test phase all subjects are required to learn a new task in which presentation of the tone signals that the left-hand of two levers will yield food and presentation of the clicker signals that a response to the right-hand lever will do so . |
| 10 | They were then shifted to an instrumental discrimination in which presentation of the clicker signalled that choice of one lever would be reinforced ( with food ) and presentation of the tone signalled that choice of the other lever would be reinforced ( with food plus shock ) . |
| 11 | I have seen magazine articles in which experts say that there never were any salmon pink Fenders , yet I know there were , because I had one . |
| 12 | Aziz characterized the Gulf war as a " pan-Arab battle in which Iraq had assumed the responsibility of defending pan-Arab security as well as the Gulf region in particular " . |
| 13 | As regards the content of the proposed talks , the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council communiqué on Dec. 1 , in which Iraq originally accepted Bush 's offer of talks , stressed that " Iraq will endeavour to follow up and broaden any window for dialogue rather than the language of threats " . |
| 14 | Sociological explanations of the same condition draw attention to the hospital environment in which mothers have their babies , and to the debilitating effects of medical procedures and technology during labour and delivery . |
| 15 | The economic contexts in which mothers care for their children have been deeply affected by the widening of income inequalities in Britain in recent decades . |
| 16 | It represents the strategic space in which mothers work to resist the impact of poverty on individual health while trying , at the same time , to prevent their families slipping further into debt . |
| 17 | This research brings together two lines of enquiry into early child language which have previously been studied separately : the way in which mothers talk to their children , and the early development of children 's vocabularies . |
| 18 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |
| 19 | Ecology the environment in which behaviour takes place . |
| 20 | By solving individual optimisation problems it may be possible to predict the way in which behaviour changes when policy is altered . |
| 21 | Many results , especially from field surveys , may be primarily in the form of statistical tables in which percentages largely tell their own stories . |
| 22 | The examples used should be realistic and relevant to the pupils concerned Emphasis should also be given to the way in which percentages are used both for comparative purposes in many everyday situations and also as a numerical measure based on a 100-point scale of reference . |
| 23 | It is probable that the risk factors for multi-infarct type are similar to those for stroke in which hypertension is implicated . |
| 24 | As for the anthologies in which Byrd 's music appeared in his lifetime , several were explored on record years ago but are now forgotten . |
| 25 | The second set began with the emphasis on theatricality in a take-off of a television talent show , in which trombonist Rick Taylor took the honours with a memorably awful rendition of The Eagles 's Desperado . |
| 26 | In supporting our contention , we consider the way in which statistics are presented and the assumptions generally made about the health and dependency of older people as well as about their role as consumers rather than producers of goods and services . |
| 27 | The captain 's love remains on this exalted plane throughout scenes of action in which idealism is not always satisfactorily integrated . |
| 28 | The chapter ‘ Exploiting tolerance ’ deals with the way in which creationists appeal for their subject to be accepted in schools as an alternative to evolution and also make much of there being a scientific establishment with a collective closed mind . |
| 29 | But if he was a useful companion for Hayward , there were also ways in which Hayward could be of benefit to him . |
| 30 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts ( in which DRTF1/E2F resolves as complexes a , b and c ) with an E2F binding site ( E2A promoter sequences -71 to -50 ) in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A serum with the addition of either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) ; 3 and 4 represent two different rabbit antisera. c , DP-1 is in the affinity-pure DRTF1/E2F DNA-binding complex . |