Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 2 | Does it conceal a kind of romantic fascism , where everyone has a proper state and none should aspire to alter or change this state ? |
| 3 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 4 | I stopped right there , where I had an uninterrupted view , and watched the rim of it flatten out , spreading fire along the ocean 's edge . |
| 5 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 6 | I arrived at 10.30 and drove to 31 St Aldate 's where I found an enormous orgy in progress . |
| 7 | ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book . |
| 8 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 9 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 10 | I was articled in Worthing in 1966 with the Borough Council where I undertook a wide variety of conveyancing and litigation , and as a local authority employee , I was authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Court which gave me early experience in advocacy . |
| 11 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 12 | Those in the high-risk category are , broadly , those which invest in trading companies or which lack an assured means of turning this unquoted stock back into cash . |
| 13 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 14 | Some computers have a variation on the multiply instruction which delivers an n-bit result for operands limited in size , or which rounds a 2n-bit result to n bits . |
| 15 | definitions of words which may be new to students , or which have a specific meaning |
| 16 | How does the gospel relate to those areas with which the culture is least able to cope , or which have a dehumanising influence ? |
| 17 | We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language . |
| 18 | Then , if the target A&R person does come , there is a better chance of him or her making a fair analysis of the artist without being caught up in A&R peer pressure . |
| 19 | There may be some justification for the ( insular ) suspicion that when the Emperor is restocking his wardrobe he usually shops in Paris ; but the rashionability or ideas does not or itself constitute an honest argument against them ; indeed , to offer this as one 's main response is to betray intellectual bankruptcy . |
| 20 | This bitch was also mated before she came into quarantine in this country , where she produced a large litter of ten . |
| 21 | No one who saw the 1986 Gold Cup and knew of Dawn Run 's subsequent fate could look with unmixed emotions on her statue by the Cheltenham parade ring , where she left a permanent mark on racing history . |
| 22 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 23 | But the alternative of returning to the hall , and traversing its crowded sixty-foot length to gain the opposite staircase leading to the upper storey , where she shared a tiny chamber with Adele and two of Matilda 's ladies , was just as unappealing . |
| 24 | She came to England in 1904 to study at the London School of Economics , where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the development of New South Wales , gaining a D.Sc . |
| 25 | She rubbed her arm , where she had a large bruise above the elbow . |
| 26 | The surroundings were full of interest : in the foreground we had Martha 's pig-store , where she kept a varied assortment of china and earthenware ; it also was roofed by the remains of an old pleasure boat ; Martha 's cabbage garden and potato plot , and Martha 's henhouse , where the roosters were alike honoured by having a boat-house of their own . |
| 27 | The daughter of a sailor who was lost at sea , she was sent to the Dean Orphanage where she received a solid education and showed promise . |
| 28 | She began there in the Seventies on Greene Street , where she opened a multi-discipline art and performance space . |
| 29 | WOULD ALL TEACHERS PLEASE PUBLICISE THIS OFFER WELL IFF YOU HAVE A LOCAL RALLY THIS TERM . |
| 30 | I think about stopping every day ; I 've tried hypnosis , acupuncture , pills , potions , chewing-gum — even aversion therapy , where you get an electric shock every time you take a drag . |