Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an umbrella body uniting over 250 national organisations concerned with sporting and recreational activities , it provides through its Divisional structure a forum where like-minded bodies can meet to discuss areas of common concern . |
| 2 | Despite the elevation of chef to artisan cook to fine artist , it is still rare to find a British restaurant where food is served without a main eye on fashion and where home-grown ingredients do no appear as mutant clones of other cuisines . |
| 3 | Arbitration is also the better method where points of law may arise or where extensive discovery might be needed . |
| 4 | There have been dramatic changes to the environment of Surrey Docks , Wapping , the Isle of Dogs and Beckton , where extensive housing and commercial developments have taken place . |
| 5 | On the western coast , where extensive marshes are to be found in Cardigan Bay , the succession of plants differs in some respects from that of the east coast , but the general process of deposition encouraged by plants and leading to a sequence of changing plant communities is similar . |
| 6 | Even in small companies computers are an essential tool , particularly in the preparation of estimates and in pricing bills of quantities , where extensive calculations are involved . |
| 7 | Clearly , a limitation is necessary but the financial incentives on the best land included in the extended LFA should be considerably lower than those available on the least amenable land where agricultural development is considerably constrained by climate , topography and soils . |
| 8 | In desert and hilly regions , where agricultural production is low , people obtain two-thirds of their energy from firewood . |
| 9 | It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale . |
| 10 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 11 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 12 | I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry . |
| 13 | Effective anthelmintic therapy of ewes during the fourth month of pregnancy should eliminate most of the worm burdens present at this time including arrested larval stages and in the case of ewes on extensive grazing , where nutritional status is frequently low , this treatment often results in improved general body condition . |
| 14 | The effects are worst in upland granite areas , where peaty soils have little potential to resist the acidity . |
| 15 | And where technical qualities are very obtrusive , as in Joyce 's Ulysses , the novel is dismissed by this tradition as a ‘ dead-end , or at least as pointer to disintegration ’ ( Leavis 1962 : 36 ) . |
| 16 | This style allowed other-worldly figures to express themselves more naturally than in classical ballet where technical precision and command over conventional gesture were necessary . |
| 17 | Where technical law ends and political controversy begins is not always easy to determine . |
| 18 | What has happened in this case is symptomatic of the adversarial approach , where technical points are taken in order to secure a particular result . |
| 19 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 20 | The various land-uses that are practised in African savannas have been described by Okigbo ( 1985 ) and include nomadic herding , shifting cultivation on a 2–3 year basis , semi-permanent cultivation or rotational bushfallow , intensive dryland agriculture involving rotations and intercropping , and more intensive flood-land cultivation where small-scale irrigation is practised . |
| 21 | It is , indeed , difficult to avoid the generalization that while classical tendencies are increasingly becoming the ‘ dominant ’ ( in Jakobson 's sense ) in a commercial system such as that epitomized by US broadcasting , naturalist tendencies remain the dominant in the UK where public-service values retain an increasingly tenuous hold . |
| 22 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 23 | ‘ Non-intervention ’ is routinely practised in British hospitals , where life-prolonging treatment is halted at the request of patients who have had enough . |
| 24 | This results in a situation , represented in " 3 " , where near-shore sediments can actually accumulate , presuming the subsidence to have occurred in that particular environmental belt . |
| 25 | by the massifs of Bramsche and Vlotho ( Figs. 4 and 5 ) , where palaeogeothermal events of Upper Cretaceous age have determined the coalification pattern . |
| 26 | It seems particularly useful in books of poetry where specific illustrations may intrude and come between the text and the reader 's mental imagery , as Brian Wildsmith 's do in the Oxford book of poetry for children . |
| 27 | Where specific rules correspond , reference where appropriate is made to the RSC rule in the notes which follow the County Court rule in the County Court Practice . |
| 28 | Thus , where specific goods are to be weighed or tested , etc. , by some person other than the seller , property will pass under Rule 1 or Rule 2 unless the parties have agreed otherwise . |
| 29 | These auxiliaries may be used when required at the discretion of the individual cataloguer ( unlike DC where specific instructions are given for most applications of the Tables or the ‘ add to ’ device ) . |
| 30 | Where specific reports such as the balance sheet or profit and loss account are mentioned in the body of the text these are shown below . |