Example sentences of "where [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 2 | Some companies farm out elderly executives to a convenient backwater where they are given a lofty title — Senior Vice President in Charge of Something Unimportant . |
| 3 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 4 | And if he can really put the icing on the cake of this remarkable recovery story by winning , he will be the toast of the Portsmouth greyhound racing fraternity — where he 's become a great favourite over the years . |
| 5 | But Prince has floated free of grassroots or use value , and ascended to an aristocratic , aerial domain of licence and luxury — where he 's instigated a promiscuous chaos of stylistic miscegenation . |
| 6 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 7 | From 1957 Rollo and his wife Alice came to London every year , where he was elected an honorary member of the Double Crown Club ( whom he addressed , on WA Dwiggins ) and the Wynkyn de Worde Society . |
| 8 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 9 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 10 | At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception . |