Example sentences of "in which [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 2 | B. ’ A day elapsed in which nothing further occurred . |
| 3 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 4 | it was the story of South Africa 's international summer , one in which they briefly touched heights and revealed glimpses of talent yet never quite reached their ultimate objectives in their travels through India , Australia , New Zealand and finally in the Caribbean . |
| 5 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 6 | Thorndyke 's puzzle box forced animals to use a trial and error strategy in which they eventually had to happen on an answer through associations . |
| 7 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 8 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 9 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 10 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 11 | The Carolingian minuscules in which they typically appeared represented a hand developed in Europe . |
| 12 | All you have to do to get your hands on the goodies is to study the adverts on this page and pick , from the choice below each ad , the year in which they actually appeared in our Live Ads section . |
| 13 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 14 | Her riding ability had paved the way for her acceptance amongst the circles in which they now moved . |
| 15 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 16 | Her only other published work was The Metrical Miscellany ( 1802 , 2nd edn. 1803 ) , an anthology of fugitive verse by contemporary celebrities , in which she also published twenty of her own poems ( including the hitherto uncounted prefatory verses of 1802 by ‘ The Editor ’ ) . |
| 17 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 18 | The miniature faience robes are almost certainly votives standing for full-sized ceremonial robes that were offered to a goddess , either to dress an idol or to dress a priestess for a ceremony in which she somehow became the goddess . |
| 19 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 20 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 21 | To gossip about diaries in which she allegedly rated her lovers ' sexual prowess . |
| 22 | The front-page splash was an old Pilger chestnut — the latest of a series of articles which he periodically wrote based on the diaries of a seven-year-old Asian girl in the East End in which she faithfully recorded racist attacks on the family . |
| 23 | In 1988 , Julie had a year like Helen Dobson 's , a year in which she never felt she could lose . |
| 24 | Within hours of the signing of the law , Janet Benshoof , an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union , made a speech in which she deliberately gave advice on where women could obtain abortions . |
| 25 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 26 | Unfortunately there was nothing fictitious about the situation in which she now found herself — and one which she really must resolve as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Mrs Castle 's argument , and an argument in which she sincerely believed , was that the retention of private medicine meant a reduction in the quality of service available to the National Health patient . |
| 28 | ‘ When you went shopping together here , did she ever say anything about the way in which she usually spent her allowance ? ’ |
| 29 | I was utterly depressed and silences fell in which she steadfastly looked away and then took a quick little bite of a glance . |
| 30 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |