Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 2 | With such descriptions , actually occurring linguistic data , where they are adduced at all , serve to exemplify category types . |
| 3 | The essence of diffusionism is that where you find the same or similar techniques you propose the existence of some form of cultural connection or ‘ borrowing ’ , especially when , in the case of material objects , the similarities do not stem automatically from the raw materials used , and where they are reinforced by large numbers of parallel instances . |
| 4 | It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names . |
| 5 | With this system the batteries , usually PP3s but sometimes AAs in pods , just drop into the detector 's battery compartments where they are held against internal contacts by pressure , usually from the battery door . |
| 6 | Eventually they end up at a reprocessing plant where they are ground into tiny flakes , washed and dried . |
| 7 | ( The horns fetch tens of thousands of dollars in the Far East , where they are used in fever-reducing medicines — not as aphrodisiacs , as is commonly supposed . ) |
| 8 | Description , interpretation and judgement are the subjects of separate chapters , where they are considered in more detail . |
| 9 | But despite these problems the method receives powerful support from the practical comparison of the representation of coin issues in hoards and the size of those issues where they are known from mint records . |
| 10 | They consist of a cabinet or tunnel in which items are placed and where they are subjected to hot spray of detergent solution followed by rinse water . |
| 11 | chiefly down the Rhinns. with a major Neolithic occupation site at Bolsay on the slope of Beinn Tart a Mhill and also amongst the sand dunes at Sanaig and Sanaigmore where they are accompanied by large quantities of heat shattered stones , often called pot boilers , from primitive fires . |
| 12 | But volcanoes are also found in the interiors of plates where they are associated with hot spots and tend to occur either as clusters or lines . |
| 13 | Water-fleas ( Daphnia ) , blood-worms and a few other kinds of small animal can be purchased cheaply from aquarists ' shops , where they are sold as live food for tropical fish . |
| 14 | The Admiralty had dispatched two battlecruisers — Invincible and Inflexible — to the south Atlantic , where they were joined by six light cruisers . |
| 15 | With their subsequent production , It Pays To Advertise ( 1924 ) , they moved to the Aldwych Theatre , where they were joined in 1925 by the playwright Ben Travers [ q.v. ] , who was to describe Lynn in his memoirs as ‘ the greatest farcical actor I was ever lucky enough to know and watch and work with ’ . |
| 16 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 17 | The result was a general strike early in September 1946 in which police and government workers camped out in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda where they were guarded against any persuasive attempts from authority . |
| 18 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 19 | ‘ Those found guilty were returned to Changi Jail where they were put into condemned cells to await their fate of execution , mainly by hanging . |
| 20 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 21 | Jesus Jones and Morrissey did tours where they were playing to 100 people — and now Morrissey 's playing to 12,000 . |
| 22 | The youths were held prisoner at the Mandela home where they were subjected to vicious assaults . |
| 23 | It 's the verges that 're either not cut at all or they 're cut with one of two machines , the primo is little bits and the machines that so aptly described . |
| 24 | These are commonly 1000 km or more across and are either entirely enclosed and therefore drained internally , such as the Lake Eyre Basin of Australia and the Chad and Kalahari Basins of Africa , or they are breached by one or more major river system , such as the region drained by the Zaire ( Congo ) river system ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 25 | In essence these are stand-alone management procedures except they are printed on pink paper . |
| 26 | Although they are followed by two relative clauses ( lines 24 and 25 ) , they are not as closely linked syntactically as the earlier examples cited above . |
| 27 | Used as an utterance in context it may have many meanings , which , although they are connected to this context-free sentence meaning , may be extremely varied . |
| 28 | Although they are operating from temporary premises in the nearby Court Arcade the number of visitors has fallen . |
| 29 | There are other sexist conventions of usage , however , which — although they are reproduced in everyday speech and writing — are ultimately sanctified by the authority of grammar books and dictionaries . |
| 30 | Although they are committed to individual advice work , they consider such work to be limited in its effectiveness . |