Example sentences of "where [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 2 | Yes , I I 'd like to go back to that very traditional Hogmanay , I mean , I think that Hogmanay is very important , not the the Hogmanay that we have now where everybody gathers round a T V but it was very much erm like a I always think Hogmanay at my granny 's , as do er , most of the people in in th the mining area , actually her house was a focus . |
| 3 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 4 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 5 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 6 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 7 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 8 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 9 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 10 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 11 | Minton must have recognised its truth for he bequeathed it in his will to the Royal College of Art where it hangs as a memorial to him . |
| 12 | Varroa originated in the Far East where it lives as a parasite on the Apis cerana species of honey bee . |
| 13 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 14 | The object also acts to integrate the representative individual within the normative order of the larger social group , where it serves as a medium of intersubjective order inculcated as a generative practice through some version of ‘ habitus ’ . |