Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has shown up deficiencies in common law where protection does not exist or can be waived for people with HIV . |
| 2 | She promised ‘ a new Texas … where opportunity knows no race , no gender , no colour … |
| 3 | Current findings suggest a complex picture , where opportunity has increased , but the relative chances of success between classes have changed very little . |
| 4 | Residents should have their own rooms and access to bathroom and WC facilities , preferably of their own , or shared with no more than one or two others ; tenants sharing a house are not like a family of adults and children in an ordinary house where intimacy allows much more comfortable sharing of facilities |
| 5 | Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned . |
| 6 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 7 | Where money has been paid over to the debtor before the end of the " cooling-off " period , the CCA 1974 gives the debtor the choice : firstly , to take a month 's free credit before repaying the credit already advanced ( s71(2) ( a ) ) ; or secondly , with regard to money already spent , he can repay the money with interest , as provided for in the credit agreement , so that the effect of the cancellation only relates to the linked supply transaction ( s71(3) ) . |
| 8 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 9 | Superimposed colours , transparency and opacity , signs of rust where moisture has seeped into the cloth stretched over the frame : for the last ten years Michel Mouffe 's work has created its own history through the layered transformations taking place within the canvas . |
| 10 | WHERE MOISTURE COMES FROM |
| 11 | The extensive low lying areas of grade 3 land consist predominantly of productive grassland where dairying predominates . |
| 12 | And the complex , ever-absorbing detail of Las Meninas was really beyond words — pure art underlying mysteriously the brilliant surface , where literature has no place . |
| 13 | Havelock suggests three categories : the research and development and diffusion model , where an idea or practice conceived at the centre is fed out into the system ; the social interaction model , where change proceeds through formal and informal contact between groups ; and the problem solving model , where individuals are themselves involved in initiating , developing or modifying aspects of a programme at local level . |
| 14 | Second , where change has occurred , particularly at the intraregional scale , migration has played the leading role . |
| 15 | Where responsibility has been spread to more than 1,000 in-bureau tutors , the supervisory task of one solitary area training officer becomes very hard . |
| 16 | Where prayer has been valid . |
| 17 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 18 | Some of the items on my own agenda for spiritual direction over the past two or three years have been : lifestyle — being overbusy and needing to rediscover a rhythm where prayer finds its right place alongside a full teaching and pastoral ministry ; bereavement and particular aspects of my mother 's death ; reading ; pain in prayer ; spiritual warfare ; a major decision . |
| 19 | Where impairment enters , the character is proven to be socially dead ( Finkelstein , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 21 | Where Parliament imposes a penalty for an offence , Parliament must consider the penalty is adequate and Parliament can increase the penalty if it proves to be inadequate . |
| 22 | ‘ Where Parliament has designated a public officer as decision-maker for a particular class of decisions the High Court , acting as a reviewing court under Order 53 , is not a court of appeal . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not propose to offer a definition , where Parliament has declined to do so . |
| 24 | This extra power for the Commission is essential at the earliest stages of the planning process , where experience has shown that involvement of governmental environment departments , environmental research agencies , and non-governmental organisations can reduce subsequent environmental damage as well as enhance environmental and socio-economic benefits . |
| 25 | A cuckoo that finds a host 's nest where incubation has already started will often rob the nest causing the unfortunate host to start a new clutch , thus providing the cuckoo with a further chance for parasitism . |
| 26 | In the remoter rural areas , where agriculture has traditionally held a virtual monopoly of employment opportunities , the declining demand for labour in agriculture has historically led to widespread rural depopulation . |
| 27 | However , where agriculture starts to become mechanized , usually under the auspices of the colonial powers and/or foreign investors , men begin to take more interest and to appropriate the economic gains for themselves ( see Boserup , 1970 ; Brydon and Chant , 1989 , ch.3 ) . |
| 28 | Usually silent away from breeding grounds , where male has a loud harsh bark and a deep hoot , and female a higher-pitched bark . |
| 29 | A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September . |
| 30 | Where damage has been done , particularly in gouging out a shopfront and leaving fine brick or stone upper storeys suspended over a vast area of plate glass , it may be worth seeking reinstatement . |