Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts . |
| 2 | I live in a town called Chastlecombe , where I create expensive hand-knitted sweaters to sell to tourists . |
| 3 | Angela McCarthy welcomes you to her period guest house where she provides traditional English food . |
| 4 | Mrs Moore welcomes you to her Regency villa where she provides traditional English food in grand surroundings . |
| 5 | You can brush where the skin is healthy , but avoid any areas where you have bad varicose veins . |
| 6 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 7 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 8 | This contrasts with the situation in scene five , where he has considerable academic credibility . |
| 9 | Sauvignon , that quintessential crisp , dry white variety , is popular in fashion-led Australia where it produces clean dry whites — but with a difference . |
| 10 | This uses large quantities of water that is stored in old pits , where it forms bright blue likes . |
| 11 | Where it counts -achieving spectacular results — everyone works as a team . |
| 12 | Trace is designed principally for high-friction , metalled roads , where it predicts probable cornering forces based on the steering angle , engine speed and amount of grip available . |
| 13 | The Syrah is a splendid grape from the northern Rhone , where it makes fabulous high-priced wines at Hermitage and Cote-Rotie for £10 — £20 a bottle . |
| 14 | Although I asked various qualified people if soil altered the flavour of wine from the same grape variety and district I got no clear answer … |
| 15 | ‘ Although I love traditional British desserts such as jam sponge , I can never manage to eat them at the end of a three-course meal , ’ Clayton says . |
| 16 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Your business was in desperate financial straits so you bought cheap counterfeit tapes to stave off the evil day . ’ |
| 18 | Once you had standard generic lines . |
| 19 | Once you see prolonged prespawning activity such as fin-flaring displays , cleaning of the spawning sites and perhaps even jaw-locking , it is time to have your photographic equipment on standby . |
| 20 | Sometimes we crunched across crystalline ice , or slid tiny steps at a time over glass ice , so we created shiny black footprints in the dusting of snow . |
| 21 | Once we reject psychological egoistic hedonism we have virtually admitted this fact . |
| 22 | Intolerant workers tended to show cycles longer or shorter than twenty-four hours when they were on shifts , although they had normal twenty-four cycles when they had returned to day-work . |
| 23 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 24 | In all three , the arts are barely on the official agenda : they bring in few votes ; they have small budgets compared to the least of other government departments , so they marshall small political forces . |
| 25 | But we have evidence that these gravimetric machines have been sabotaged in some of Britain 's pits , so they give false low readings . |
| 26 | However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered . |
| 27 | He did not have indigestion although he ate ready salted crisps with his whisky . |
| 28 | He had great difficulty in getting party support for his reforms and , although he showed great political skills , he was never able to overcome the powerful opposition of party-vested interests . |
| 29 | ‘ Almost every product on sale in this country is barcoded so it provides immense game-play possibilities . |
| 30 | As religion is the whole way of life so it affects individual social relationships across the ethnic boundaries thereby leading to Pakistanis ’ encapsulation' ( pp. 168–9 ) . |