Example sentences of "in what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 2 | The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works . |
| 3 | Where personal profiles have a strength , however , is in what the critic says about personal reactions to artist and work . |
| 4 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to analyse the formal characteristics of African sculpture in terms of vertical , horizontal or diagonal emphases ; of relative naturalism or abstraction ; of rounded , angular or cubic elements ; or in terms of tensions , rhythm and movement , and this is certainly an enjoyable and satisfying experience , since African sculptors have achieved a remarkable level of expression in what has been called ‘ purely sculptural ’ form . |
| 6 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 7 | Another is Ryszard Kapuscinski , an expert in what he calls ‘ confusion ’ , who has attended twenty-seven revolutions in the Third World . |
| 8 | Dummies can come to life in books , as it seems they can do for their masters on the stage : and this miracle depends , not only on the author , but also on the people he knows , who may indeed be thought to participate in what he is , and who are likely to participate in his ventriloquism . |
| 9 | And in what Roth writes Roth and Bellow meet . |
| 10 | Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew . |
| 11 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 12 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 13 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 14 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 15 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 16 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 17 | But he had chosen to dress in what he may have conceived to be a British manner . |
| 18 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 19 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 20 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 21 | Material obtained in such circumstances inevitably contains the seeds of a special inside knowledge , avoiding problems described by Liebow ( 1967 : 232–56 ) , who was still separated by cognitive barriers while pursuing research in what was ostensibly his own society , and who found an insider 's language , education , and ‘ social membership ’ all helped to retain boundaries he was unable to penetrate . |
| 22 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 23 | This contains the experience and depth of the insider 's knowledge , which Holdaway ( 1979 ) recognizes is unlikely to become readily available , simply because ‘ there is a lack of impetus within contemporary sociology to spend lengthy periods of observation in what may be uncomfortable research situations [ with the police ] ’ . |
| 24 | He dismissed this as irrelevant and his use of metaphor , in what turned out to be an eighty-minute interview , was most revealing . |
| 25 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 26 | The forces produced in the individual on such occasions , in what Jung ( 1964 ) calls a ‘ journey to individuation ’ , manifest themselves in a number of very persuasive ways and in this case led to some radical reassessments of the existing moral , philosophic , political , and aesthetic order . |
| 27 | In fact , there were signs of ending and unease in what she had written . |
| 28 | This evening , Jamie would wow his rowdies to riot point and make a fast get-away in what Francis called Jay 's dyke-mobile . |
| 29 | ‘ It will never end until we feel our powers , until we see how few and weak they are ’ ( this was the merest wishfulness ) , ‘ and how strong they are , for consider what they have now , and in what sort of a country we are living . |
| 30 | In what ways did he feel it , his father 's pain ? |