Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] where [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 2 | They occur much more frequently in the case of mergers and takeovers that represent a second best to internal expansion , and the situation is much worse in the usual case where businesses are acquired with no manufacturing rationale at all . |
| 3 | Near Pantelleria the formation was fired on , so dived down to low level where Plt.Off . |
| 4 | The only other specific category where women outnumber men in council accommodation is the elderly , simply by virtue of the fact that they live longer . |
| 5 | This also involves another change , in that socialist politics now increasingly involve many other social groups besides classes , such as those which are active in the ecology movement and the women 's movement ; as can be seen , for example , in the European Parliament where socialists and their allies in such movements now form an influential majority . |
| 6 | They have organised a promotional float which depicts a scene from the classic movie where Bogart and Bergman ‘ kiss it goodbye ’ in Rik 's Cafe . |
| 7 | Jarvis had set up a trestle table on that terrace where pupils had once assembled for the annual school photograph . |
| 8 | Local music is an altogether healthier picture , according to the group , who see it as a friendly club where bands from all divisions of music can work together without competition . |
| 9 | Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population . |
| 10 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 11 | However , when each subject only provides a single value for the estimate of signal detection variables ( as in this case where data is aggregated across subjects ) , Locksley , Stangor , Hepburn , Grosovsky & Hockstrasser ( 1984 ) recommend that nonparametric measures are used . |
| 12 | Similarly , IPCC is looking at the possibility that sulphate pollution in the northern hemisphere is reflecting the sun 's heat and retarding global warming — another case where pollution control could raise fresh problems . |
| 13 | But the prosecution gave the court details of another case where judges had declared that such an argument was n't valid . |
| 14 | R v. Tempest ( 1902 ) 18 T.L.R. 433 , and for another case where members of the court were also city councillors , see R. v. Sheffield Confirming Authority [ 1937 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 15 | The following example of the verb hear , while not equivalent to " is reported to have " , represents another case where perception is evoked merely as the condition for asserting a fact : ( 77 ) With these words , Mr Weller left the room , and immediately afterwards was heard to shut the street-door . |
| 16 | a scottish case where pursuer succeeded in proving a risk of future serious deterioration and that onset of post traumatic osteoarthritis would be a recognisable threshold on which to assess further damages . |
| 17 | Kierkegaard highlighted the part of the Old Testament where Abraham is told by God to kill his son Isaac . |
| 18 | Gallo noted that virus replicated faster in an activated cell where deoxyribonucleotides are in plentiful supply . |
| 19 | Of course , the challenge is when people who are sensitised to their own attitudes go back into a work or social setting where people are not . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah … we Navigators have some influence where matters of space are involved . ’ |
| 21 | Such barriers are common in public procurement where standards and rules and regulations can prevent entry by non-national firms . |
| 22 | There are sporadic attempts to rehabilitate surfers and integrate them into society , but it never sticks : they belong on the margins , in another dimension where things are unreal , where outrageous and insane are terms of approbation , and all non-surfing humans are ridiculed as hodads . |
| 23 | If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut . |
| 24 | On the brown hillside where light grows and fades , |
| 25 | This view , though , has implications for the public sector where convention has it that it is the role of the politicians and not the officials to determine goals and take responsibility . |
| 26 | The landing place is for a meadow lying on a shelf or terrace beneath the cliffs : the Rutli meadow where representatives of the three founding cantons met in 1307 to take a solemn oath confirming their Everlasting League to defend the liberties their valleys had inherited against tyrants . |
| 27 | By contrast , in London " talking black " or " chatting Patois " can be seen as a social act where speakers , coming to the conversation with similar models of the stereotyped " Creole " , but different degrees of competence in it and different amounts of motivation , negotiate a language which they agree is " Patois " / " Creole " / " black talk " etc . |
| 28 | In R v Manchester Justices , ex pBannister [ 1983 ] 4 FLR 1977 , a case decided under the old law where residence had to be " habitual " rather than ordinary , the court held that a child resides where it eats , drinks and sleeps . |
| 29 | Another place where writers put commas " illegally " is between a verb which describes saying and the sentence which presents what is said : |
| 30 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |