Example sentences of "[noun sg] where [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crystals of gypsum grow within the pores of the rock where they exert mechanical stress , creating tiny fractures which eventually cause the stonework to crumble . |
| 2 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 3 | The victim was taken to the Royal Infirmary where he received 20 stitches . |
| 4 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |
| 5 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 6 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 7 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 8 | Ideally , they should be kept in the open where they get good light , but are not exposed to severe winds . |
| 9 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 10 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 11 | ‘ The youngest watches TV like every other little boy , and from that he thinks that prison is a place where they put bad people who 've done terrible things , ’ explains Margaret . |
| 12 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |
| 13 | That afternoon he preached to three thousand people , so it is claimed , and the place where he preached that sermon is known as Fox 's Pulpit . |
| 14 | Obviously with a computer background , I wanted to go into a business where you had large volumes . |
| 15 | Hey , maybe I should make a visicord of you two , sell it down-Level , sell you two down-Level to a doghouse where they do that kind of thing ! |
| 16 | Hence each enforcement authority ( i.e. local trading standards department ) now has power to serve a ‘ suspension notice ’ upon a trader where it has reasonable grounds to think legal safety requirements have been infringed , section 14 . |
| 17 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 18 | Strong and cohesive work groups can have beneficial effects for the organisation where they share common goals and values . |
| 19 | The raiders kicked in the front door and forced interior doors into the office area where they selected 14 Apple computers with asssociated equipment . |
| 20 | It 's a good training for unpleasantnesses like last night and another area where I think Indian culture triumphs over English . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 22 | does anybody ever watch the news where they say Japanese company decide to locate in Manchester , or whatever . |
| 23 | In other words it was n't the one and only example where we felt this gap but it 's simple one where remarked on it . |
| 24 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 25 | We then made brief visits in turn to some greenhouses , to a school where we witnessed an English lesson , to a clinic where we saw barefoot doctors and Chinese herbal medicines , to an agricultural machinery factory , and finally to a couple of peasants ' homes . |
| 26 | they go aye , that 's alright , but the only way you can tell you 'd feel a jagged edge where they put this plate . |
| 27 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 28 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 29 | Taking it a stage further we 've got a situation where we have two types of bacteria . |
| 30 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |