Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This night prowler has a low density of cones in its retina and so can only see colour in objects which fill a large part of its field of view . |
| 2 | Descriptive studies , such as palaeontology , generally do not make use of technological or analytical tools , whereas geochemistry and geophysics require heavy investment in technologies which change rapidly . |
| 3 | They might be printed in pairs or in patterns which repeat . |
| 4 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 5 | There was a Haydnish sonata , a gentle piano tracking up and back in patterns which you could half anticipate even if you 'd never heard the piece before . |
| 6 | We are right to be scrupulous to maintain our system of open justice , to require that people be tried for charges the purport of which is known , and in courts which are open to the public and to the press and can be fully and fairly reported . |
| 7 | Secondly , in proposals which caused considerable controversy between the two parties comprising the Alliance before the election , a radical ‘ restructuring of the tax and benefits systems to create one integrated system ’ , intended to be simpler and fairer , was suggested . |
| 8 | The European Commission is planning to cut the legal limit for blood alcohol in drink-driving offences to 50mg/100ml in proposals which could be implemented EC-wide if approved by a majority of EC states . |
| 9 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 10 | The role of the social sciences in programmes which address Global Environmental Change ( GEC ) is vital , but scarcely ever understood . |
| 11 | Teachers are trained in institutions which run courses approved by Central Government . |
| 12 | It would therefore also be a disadvantage in institutions which use off-air material , as many language schools in English-speaking countries do . |
| 13 | This does not apply to those people who spend long periods of time in institutions which they are powerless to leave and with little or no freedom of choice … children 's homes , boarding schools , prisons , mental hospitals , homes for people with disabilities . |
| 14 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 15 | This creates major difficulties for the examination of the effects of the change envisaged , but it does provide an explanation for the dramatic changes in policies which occur , most notably , in our case , the movement towards signing . |
| 16 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 17 | Symbolically , at least , a formal connection had been made in which the success of US policy in strengthening Western Europe had been linked to what was in effect Congressional interest in policies which would ‘ contain' communism in Asia . |
| 18 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 19 | Edmund Gornall helped to found and which we have had an appeal to support is a small pharmacy in Andahuaylas which provides free medicine to those who have no money to pay . |
| 20 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 21 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |
| 22 | Thirdly , the image of rape portrayed is misleading and may encourage mistaken beliefs by judges and juries , so that they do not convict in cases which fall outside this narrow stereotype . |
| 23 | Field officers rely on senior officials not simply for their own advancement , but for their support in disputes with dischargers and in cases which field staff wish to see taken to court . |
| 24 | And in cases which merit protection , if that is still not enough to induce voluntary investment of funds offered by the national investment bank there is again a prima facie case for nationalisation . |
| 25 | To this counsel for the Director had replied that the plain purpose and effect of the Act was to deprive suspected persons of the right to silence in cases which were reasonably considered by the Director to involve serious or complex fraud , whilst mitigating this departure from normal constitutional principles by the restrictions on admissibility created by section 2(8) . |
| 26 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 27 | The local authority had resolved that its director of housing be authorised to offer to them , in cases which he judged to be appropriate , accommodation in hostels or hotels by way of permanent accommodation . |
| 28 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 29 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 30 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |