Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where economic conditions impinged on the ability to maintain the welfare state , it was essentially at the margin : government imposed nominal charges for medicines obtained on NHS prescriptions . |
| 2 | The coverage angered the royal entourage on what was supposed to be a high-profile visit to a close trading partner , and a country where British servicemen died in the fight against Communism in the early 1950s . |
| 3 | Nearby , you can visit the waterfall at Sillans where brave bathers plunge into the rocky pools or the caves at Villecroze once inhabited by monks . |
| 4 | These differences may be exacerbated in a more formal hierarchical structure where clear divisions exist between the different levels . |
| 5 | Oil pipelines are subject to corrosion where induced currents flow between the pipes and earth . |
| 6 | Similarly , where obnoxious odours emanate from the keeping of animals ; either s.92(1) ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) or even ( a ) may be relevant . |
| 7 | The Dewsbury case also focused attention on the difficulties of accommodating the preferences of parents drawn from groups with diverse cultural and religious differences , especially where these interests conflict with the ‘ rights ’ of the state to promote a policy of multicultural education in the interests of racial harmony and integration . |
| 8 | Frustration , rage , bitterness , fear , despair , hate , envy , lust , pride — always in plentiful supply where human beings settled throughout the globe , but never so much in supply as in the present age of mass psychosis . |
| 9 | His wife , who had never left her place , waved as she left , but my greatest reward was in the last shadowy glimpse of the back seat where little arms twined around the dog , hugging him ecstatically , and in the cries , thankful and joyous , fading into the night . |
| 10 | American institutions are more legalistic , adhering to principles enshrined in a written Constitution where all rights derive from the fundamental principles of liberty and equality . |
| 11 | It was rather like an old-fashioned nationalized industry where all lines led to the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | The upper limit in y of the logarithmic profile occurs where dynamical processes relating to the boundary layer as a whole become significant . |
| 13 | Mr Goodstadt says : ‘ Until recently , further opportunities for planting were becoming increasingly restricted to the residue of highly sensitive uplands , where contentious applications conflicted with the interests of wildlife , landscape and water resources . ’ |
| 14 | At Friedrichstrasse station , where many Westerners arrive on the Stadtbahn , the city railway , long queues formed . |
| 15 | Soon the Jacobite infantry were in full flight , with William himself leading the pursuit across seven miles [ 11 km ] of countryside , where many stragglers died amid the dykes and hedges , though quarter was , on his order , given to all who asked for it . |
| 16 | It embraces the remains of a mediaeval well and has been made most aesthetic use of by the present owners of the manor as an interesting garden feature where flowering colours splash against the solid , more sombre stonework . |
| 17 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |
| 18 | He walked to the old-fashioned kitchen range , where red-hot coals glowed behind the bars of the grate . |
| 19 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 20 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 21 | He has heard about the ‘ Hello curse ’ , where loving couples tell in the glossy how good life is together … and immediately head for a break-up . |
| 22 | the point of a character where two lines meet at the top , an example of this is the point on the letter A. |
| 23 | She quoted the example of a mother and daughter who habitually appeared ‘ with dishevelled hair and untidy blouses at 11 o'clock in the morning ’ , and where dirty teacups rested on the breakfast table , but the fact was that both women stayed up until 4 am buttonholing , this being their only source of income . |
| 24 | I wanted to see the rainforest I 'd read about , a place where vast trunks rise up like the pillars of a gloomy cathedral , where lianas hang down , where bright parrots chatter in the sunlight of the tree canopy . |
| 25 | Mediaeval literature has frequent references to insanity , in sermons and saints ' lives , where holy men struggle with the insane and usually cure them , by the power of God , or where the violent against Christians ultimately become mad ; in homiletic literature , where the figures of Nebuchadnezzar and Herod present fearful lessons ; and in Arthurian romances , where Tristram and Lancelot are interesting figures to the modern psychologist . |
| 26 | Attention should be paid to the Home/Motor Etc Agreement within the Claims Agreements on HOST where special arrangements apply between the signatories of the Agreement . |
| 27 | This happened typically where both generations participated in the same family business : most often , but not always , a small farm or croft . |
| 28 | where both parties emerge from the negotiation having obtained a mutual benefit . |
| 29 | an oversize page where both sides fold into the gutter in overlapping layers . |
| 30 | Waterloo ( 1817 ) by William Mudford [ q.v. ] , where both names appear in the imprint . |