Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 2 | Prudential Assurance 's policy treats items such as the installation of a telephone and television aerials where they existed in the old house but not in the new and the reconnection of electrical/gas appliances as separate items . |
| 3 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 4 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 5 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 6 | Where they disappeared amid the crazed valleys and jumbled boulders of the dusty scablands , the first explorers drew back in defeat , unable to decipher the wild terrain . |
| 7 | Metasedimentary rocks are common in south Harris where they occur on a large scale in well-defined belts extending for considerable distances ; up to 15 km in places . |
| 8 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 9 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 10 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 11 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 12 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 13 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 15 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 16 | Although they relate to the growing tendency to move computer applications from larger machines to smaller ones ( See ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 101 ) , reduction in the size of the boxes is not the most significant factor . |
| 17 | Although they came from a different factory , their designer was the same ‘ Mac ’ Marshall , then freelancing , who had designed the other streamliners . |
| 18 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 19 | Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 20 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 21 | The music was extremely good to dance to and the skins were excellent dancers , although they turned to the slow , deep soul music for close dancing . |
| 22 | Although they tended in the early decades to entertain an idealized image of the peasantry , their subsequent reappraisals could hardly have been more thorough . |
| 23 | Simon Kellett and Ashley Metcalfe were in a business-like mood and although they picked off the bad balls , they took few unnecessary risks . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 25 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 26 | Even in the eighteenth century , when interiors ( and people ) were at every social level a great deal dirtier than they became in the Victorian period , Defoe 's Moll Flanders can forgive a multitude of sins , where everything is ‘ so handsome and so clean ’ . |
| 27 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 28 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 29 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 30 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |