Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] is [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where payment is made into court by a defendant who makes a counterclaim , it must be accompanied by a notice to show how the counterclaim has been taken into account ( Ord 11 , r 1(9) ) . |
| 2 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 3 | This immunity has now been abolished by the Animals Act 1971 , so that where damage is caused by animals straying on the highway the question of liability is to be decided in accordance with the ordinary principles of negligence . |
| 4 | Water is an industry where investment is spent on pipes that , once laid underground , may be forgotten about for up to 100 years . |
| 5 | This depends on whether , but from the definition of so where labour is employed in sector Y , the relative price of the taxed good must increase . |
| 6 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 7 | The fundamental proposition of the 1982 Act is that the immunity of trade unions in tort is totally abolished , though the union enjoys the same defences as an individual where action is taken in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important factor which leads to a weakening of self-assertion is an authoritarian atmosphere in family and society , where self-assertion is equated with disobedience , attack , sin . |
| 9 | respect confidential information obtained in the course of professional practice and refrain from disclosing such information without the consent of the patient/client or a person entitled to act on his/her behalf except where disclosure is required by law or by order of a court , or is necessary in the public interest . |
| 10 | This must equal the government deficit after allowing for interest payments ; i.e. , per worker ( where tax is paid on debt interest ) . |
| 11 | There are people who seem to like a tightly structured organisation where initiative is replaced by demand . |
| 12 | There has been limited use of a new procedure at the committee stage where evidence is taken from expert witnesses , as in the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 . |
| 13 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 14 | Where service is requested in Scotland or Northern Ireland see Ord 8 , r 5 . |
| 15 | Unlike the Labour party , where policy is made after debate at the annual conference , power over Conservative policy rests entirely with the headquarters in Central Office , the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet , subject to the influence of MPs . |
| 16 | A test can not be a moment of pure empirical truth where theory is judged against reality . |
| 17 | In a hierarchical structure , where success is seen in terms of promotion but where promotional opportunities become increasingly limited , playing the power game is inevitable . |
| 18 | Where capital is financed from grants , there will be no direct revenue effect . |
| 19 | Look at India , for example , where life is based on non-action . |
| 20 | The way to police safety , which hits at those responsible without penalising innocent shareholders , lies in the risk of criminal prosecution of senior management and others , where profit is put before life and limb , Mr McIntosh added . |
| 21 | Cross-domed basilica where dome is extended by barrel vaults . |
| 22 | Where illustration is used with calligraphy , it often works best if it reflects the intrinsic two-dimensional nature of letterforms . |
| 23 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 24 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 25 | Where delivery is made in instalments , the extent of the unpaid seller 's lien depends upon whether the contract is severable . |
| 26 | We probably all know the details of the nitrogen cycle , where Ammonia is converted into Nitrate and finally the less-harmful Nitrate by bacteria within the filters , but these Nitrates are also dangerous when levels build up . |
| 27 | Where the tenant occupies the premises permanently and as his principal home ( Housing Act 1985 , ss 79 – 82 ) and where possession is ordered on grounds 1 – 8 or 12 – 16 ( which includes non-payment of rent ) contained in Parts I and III of Sched 2 of the Housing Act 1985 , the provisions are similar to those for regulated tenancies , discretionary cases ( above ) . |
| 28 | If the right arises through third party assent , that time can not be definitely ascertained where assent is presumed through silence . |
| 29 | Where land is bought at auction it is essential that the purchaser or his solicitor undertakes the necessary searches and reads carefully the smallprint in the brochure . |
| 30 | As a result , we get books called The British System of Government or , more fashionably , The British Political System , where politics is added to institutions . |