Example sentences of "[noun pl] where [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He felt that such a clause would be unreasonable , since the ship was likely to break down in circumstances where return to the yard would be impracticable .
2 The floor was a continuous mosaic of eight-sided tiles , the corridor walls were angled to give the corridors eight sides if the walls and ceilings were counted and , in those places where part of the masonry had fallen in , Twoflower noticed that even the stones themselves had eight sides .
3 The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed .
4 The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect .
5 For instance , Milton Friedman gives examples of economies where expansion of the money supply has been followed by inflation .
6 The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision .
7 Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 introduced the procedure universally known as the ‘ leap-frog ’ procedure to deal with those cases where determination by the Court of Appeal might not be the most effective way of disposing of the case .
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