Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] where a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was a magnetic mountain where a compass did not work , and it was easy to lose your bearing . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A typical instance where a solicitor is needed is renewing the lease at the end of the tenancy . |
| 10 | He took her to a club in Camden Town , a dark cellar where a jazz quintet played hypnotic Chicago blues and where the pale faces of London 's night people were lit by candles as they drank , smoked and laughed . |
| 11 | SWINDLE : a lucky victory where a player in a lost position sets a last trap which his opponent falls into . |
| 12 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 13 | Two entrances , an upper and a lower , descend easily to join under a natural bridge where a passage descends into darkness but becomes choked by boulders . |
| 14 | Yet another features a quasi-black mass where a vampire creature ‘ hands you the chalice and you have to drink . |
| 15 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 16 | While Drago and Apanage went into the small kitchen next to Drago 's workroom to prepare a meal , Cleo and Dauntless sat in a cosy parlour where a log fire warmed the stones of an enormous chimney breast . |
| 17 | in a beautiful valley where a kloof gave abundant water . |
| 18 | They include the family chapel , and a Chinese bedroom where a Queen once slept . |
| 19 | He crossed the road , thumped across a pasture , then dropped into a small valley where a tangle of thorns grew either side of a trickling brook . |
| 20 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 21 | We passed a small park where a row of conscript soldiers slept beneath the trees . |
| 22 | The road to the fell leaves the A65 at Cowan Bridge , a small village where a tablet on the gable of a former school proudly proclaims that the Brontë sisters were educated there in 1824–25 before the transfer of the school to Casterton . |
| 23 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 24 | He thrust her through the archway and into a small ante-room where a fire blazed in an ancient fireplace , then swung around and faced her , his eyes glittering coldly like chunks of a harsh autumn sky . |
| 25 | Shep , apparently well satisfied , wandered back over the grass and collapsed in a cool patch where an apple tree threw its shade over the grass ; head on paws he waited in comfort for his next victim , |
| 26 | The line of the Great Central Railway south of Leicester through Catesby Tunnel and on to Brackley , is a superb example where an appreciation of the engineering involved in the construction of the last great main line in England can be obtained In a different landscape are the deep cuttings and high embankments south-east of Overstrand , Norfolk which suddenly open out into a vast grass amphitheatre-like area the site of Mundesley Station only opened in 1898 . |
| 27 | She 'd reached a floodlit clearing where a group of costumed dancers were performing , brilliant in pink skirts , white petticoats , black bodices and bright head-scarves . |
| 28 | If that failed , the next move would probably be to a Federal penitentiary where a fight in the yard or a sudden bout of pneumonia would secure his silence for good . |
| 29 | Provide a new unit where a consultant in pain-relieving medicine will be based . |
| 30 | People dropped all kinds of rubbish in amongst the lank grass and an old rusty car had been abandoned on a concrete platform where a garage once stood . |