Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] where [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OIL TANKERS may have to follow a one-way system where the tanker , Braer , went out of control off Shetland , under plans drawn up by the Department of Transport . |
| 2 | ‘ So when are they going to sign to Factory ? ’ came the cry , but a rebellious gig where the band showered The Hacienda with flowers virtually negated this particular course of action . |
| 3 | She sends her daughter to a private school where the headmaster is a pillar of the small-town citizenry . |
| 4 | They are also the end-product of a prolonged exercise where a variety of root definitions and conceptual models were developed , then discarded or amended as the analysis progressed . |
| 5 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 6 | If you pour water into this region you get a low tide where the water 's come from . |
| 7 | Twenty yards in front of the gravel pathway was a low mound where the launcher mechanism for the clays sat . |
| 8 | Having to rise first for the privacy that afforded was one of the penalties of living in a two-roomed house where the kitchen also doubled as a bedroom . |
| 9 | Beatty sealed his reputation by funding a ground-breaking movie where the violence is shockingly off-hand , viscerally captured by director Arthur Penn . |
| 10 | A social worker may have a statutory responsibility to engage the client in making a working agreement where the client is reluctant to do so . |
| 11 | He wanted some greater degree of power for himself , always within a political reality where the malais ultimately called the shots . |
| 12 | It was a magnetic mountain where a compass did not work , and it was easy to lose your bearing . |
| 13 | This powerful form of empiricism yielded a scientific method where the success or failure of predictions was the key to identifying causal laws , which were , at heart , simply correlations between variables . |
| 14 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 15 | When the time is ripe the mandate will go forward that the men will refuse to load and unload , to supply coal or cargo to any ship in a British port where a Lascar or a Chinaman is on board " . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a different land where the sun shines bright and in the deserts the rocks are too hot in the day for eagles to land , ’ he continued . |
| 17 | UTOPIA and NUMEROSO are camping on a deserted airfield where the city is to be built . |
| 18 | At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on . |
| 19 | The writer is aware of an agreement for lease granted in 1965 purporting to grant a 21-year lease where the landlord was still not in a position to grant the lease by the expiration of the agreed term in 1986 . |
| 20 | In the case of Archer-Shee v Baker ( 1927 ) 11 TC 749 , it was held that income arising to a beneficiary from a non-resident trust where the beneficiary was the sole life tenant resident in the United Kingdom was income receivable by the beneficiary from the specific securities stocks , shares , rents or other property which constituted the trust fund . |
| 21 | But there are those in England , too , who also fail to see that participation in drama has two faces , or rather , a face and a mask : the ‘ game ’ of drama where a group of participants share a significant experience , and a theatrical performance where a group of actors present the drama so that an audience might have a significant experience . |
| 22 | We walked away from the house of the notaire , with its brass-studded door , and passed a haystacked stable where a horse , steam rising from its coat , stamped its feet at us . |
| 23 | Buying decisions often involve a large number of people , particularly in the case of a public authority where a purchasing committee may be involved in a major purchase . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 25 | Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes . |
| 26 | In any dodgy situation , whether you are walking down a lonely street or standing in a crowded bar where an argument is brewing , make sure that you are aware of possible escape routes . |
| 27 | DeMarco regards these techniques as in the realm of analysis only and considers design to be a separate process where the analyst uses his experience and imagination to ‘ invent ’ a new system . |
| 28 | They had a vague idea where the place was . |
| 29 | I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it . |
| 30 | A vague command where the child does not understand the meaning behind the statement , e.g. ‘ Be careful ’ instead of ‘ Please come down off that wall ’ . |