Example sentences of "where [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |
| 2 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 3 | In fact , neither side was at first attempting to reach the defensive flank of the North Sea ; rather , each was hastening to get around the enemy 's northern flank in the only area where mobile warfare was still possible on the Western Front . |
| 4 | That is the judgment not just of the Government , but of those hard-hearted characters who decide where mobile investment projecs should go in the EC . |
| 5 | ‘ This is where mobile data fits in , enabling businesses to fulfil their need for real time information flow regardless of location . ’ |
| 6 | The Warsaw Pact might no longer be a threat to the West , but what was the future of NATO in the new era where Allied nations sought to realise the so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ by cutting defence spending ? |
| 7 | The graph shows that there are two ways of identifying the equilibrium level of income : ( a ) where aggregate demand is equal to national income ( that is , where the AD line cuts the 45° line ) ; ( b ) where total injections equal total withdrawals . |
| 8 | seeds for flavouring a variety of dishes where spicy flavour is required , used whole or as a freshly-made powder , fresh leaves used in the same way , especially with Indian recipes , with salads , marinades , rice , and with bread |
| 9 | There are four other points where adverbial expressions occur sentence-initially , sentences 6 ( At first ) , 18 ( Then ) , I9 ( Generally ) , and 22 ( Also ) . |
| 10 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 11 | Since the days when oysters were as everyday a dish as hamburgers are now , we have reached a point where each person eats only an average of 1.2oz of fresh fish a week . |
| 12 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 13 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 14 | Besides the fact that it is not always true — the bare infinitive has many uses where it is not in relation with an auxiliary — this distinction between the two infinitives is also purely distributional : Schibsbye simply lists the various contexts where each infinitive is found without developing any difference of meaning . |
| 15 | Here the ‘ metacharacters ’ show where each instance of a Book-title starts and ends . |
| 16 | Er , I should know that , or certainly agree that all the staff in the Environment must have coped ade adequately well before under the preceding system where each officer , each department was was instructed to deal with the environment as it came along . |
| 17 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 18 | In a system where each worker depends on many others — and where the success of the company depends on all — the only appropriate measurement of accomplishment is a collective one . |
| 19 | Scorers will use mouse clicks to mark off , on-screen , details like where each ball bowled landed , whether a run was scored , whether a wicket fell , and which players caught which batsmen out . |
| 20 | Scorers will use mouse clicks to mark off , on-screen , details like where each ball bowled landed , whether a run was scored , whether a wicket fell , and which players caught which batsmen out . |
| 21 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 22 | an atomic formula is one of the form p ( t , t , … t ) where each t is a term , and p is a predicate symbol which expects k arguments ( i.e. p has arity k ) . |
| 23 | For example , in a tree where each nodes takes 16 bytes , compressing the -ed endings would save 196448 bytes . |
| 24 | Instead of drawing individual cheques for each creditor , a trader may give his bank a list of creditors to be paid with the name of the bank where each creditor has his account . |
| 25 | The first is that of the bitmapped font where each size and style has to be hand-crafted from an original master and tailored to suit the resolution of the output device , typically 300dpi . |
| 26 | During the next few days , the new assistant in Birch Grove learns where each resident 's room is and what their individual needs are . |
| 27 | The Times printed a map showing where each shooting had taken place under the heading : ‘ LA Weekend : 48 Hours of Gunfire . ’ |
| 28 | develops records to show on paper where each employee stands . |
| 29 | Show me where each term from so you could Thanks very much . |
| 30 | unc where each Pi is x — IF/ALT and the bi partition true ( i.e. unc and unc whenever |