Example sentences of "in [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 2 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |
| 3 | Luckily , he had a correspondent in his brother Theo in whom he could confide and with whom he could explore ideas about art ; the letters are thus an invaluable source of interpretation . |
| 4 | Hank felt stripped of the only person in whom he could confide , and , for a while , considered following his example . |
| 5 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 6 | The chance to pull in everyone they could . ’ |
| 7 | Since subscriptions for membership have not been increased this year , one way in which everyone could help would be to add a donation — no matter how small — when sending in their subscription fee . |
| 8 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 9 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 10 | It seemed as if the conservative group were determined to drive the president towards a coup d'état , from which they could benefit — for he was a guarantee of order and stability — but from participation in which they could be legally , if not morally , absolved . |
| 11 | Most of all , they give us a unique insight into the quality of family relationships in later life , and the variety of ways in which they could be constructed . |
| 12 | They should not be introduced to a culture that was alien to them , but instead should be taught and guided through their own ‘ working-class ’ culture , in which they could succeed . |
| 13 | It is felt that by doing this the planning department can gain a better understanding of the information needed by the business units , their concerns and possible ways in which they could be assisted . |
| 14 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 15 | In a study by Mayes into various measures of testing the readability of guides , he found that guides were jargon-filled , unappealing etc and suggested many ways in which they could be made more readable . |
| 16 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 17 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 18 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 19 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 20 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 21 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 22 | To exist and survive , a living system must have access to other levels of function and other mechanisms beyond those embraced by present physics , electro-magnetics and biochemistry , otherwise the natural steady progress towards entropy or disintegration would soon reduce all living systems to a state in which they could no longer reproduce the clear patterns of their own kind . |
| 23 | First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living . |
| 24 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 25 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 26 | Yet it is virtually impossible to think of a way in which they could be tested against one another . |
| 27 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 28 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |
| 29 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 30 | One of these was R.Campbell , the author of the earliest of career guides for parents , in which they could " study and improve the Genius , Temper and Disposition of their Children before they bind them Apprentices " ( 1747 ) . |