Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are . |
| 2 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 3 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 4 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 5 | Korea , Taiwan , Thailand : all present big opportunities , but the view is that these must be handled professionally or the local publishers will step in and clean up , as in fact may already be happening in Korea . |
| 6 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |
| 7 | The cost of a new one of these could n't be offset by this contract you are working on or the next , come to that . ’ |
| 8 | It was Isabelle who triumphed , cruising past the move low down where the other two failed . |
| 9 | I think to myself , if the walls were ivory instead of mauve , and if I put fine ash floorboards down where the fat grey carpet used to be , would I then be happy and unafraid ? |
| 10 | The songs too had jokier titles : Down Where the Cross-Eyed Claras Grow , I 'm the Good Man that Was so Hard to Find . |
| 11 | Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ . |
| 12 | Presumably it can be done only where the essential core of each subject is no greater than half the total ; or where the subjects overlap in some way ; or where students are prepared to do more than 100 per cent of the work . |
| 13 | In the case of a connected fund manager exempt status is relevant only where the sole reason for the connection is that the fund manager is controlled by , controls or is under the same control as a financial or other professional adviser ( including stockbrokers ) to the offeror or target company . |
| 14 | For example , in Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 ( CA ) , such an instruction is necessary only where the accused might have thought that ordinary people would regard his conduct as honest . |
| 15 | There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence . |
| 16 | Only where the two books appear together is it called Scala Perfeccionis , The Scale of Perfection . |
| 17 | The common law doctrine of frustration applies only where the main purpose of the contract has become impossible to achieve , Herne Bay Steam Boat Co. v. Hutton ( 1903 C.A. ) . |
| 18 | It must be borne in mind that the cost of an action in Court will be significant , especially where the principal sum is relatively insignificant . |
| 19 | There must be change — and perhaps especially where the upper secondary system overlaps with further education . |
| 20 | This will be the case especially where the actual affidavit boasts of " highly placed sources " who can be summoned to verify the allegation . |
| 21 | When compiling a case , attention must be paid to the prevailing conditions , especially where the above excuses are put forward , e.g. in a case where the effect of weather may be a possible defence . |
| 22 | This differential amounted to a direct incentive to takeovers by means of share exchange or the use of undistributed profits , especially where the acquired company possessed capital assets which were undervalued in its balance sheet . |
| 23 | The prefix ‘ hard ’ always set red lights flashing , especially where the numerical grade was untypically high for the adjectival one — HVS 5b 's like Praying Mantis , on Borrowdale 's Goat Crag , or in Northumberland , Hard Severe 4c . |
| 24 | They question the theoretical basis of this approach , arguing that not only might the driver treat this as a challenge to driving skill , but that in the trade off between caution and speed , the driver could equally strike a bargain on the side of risk , especially where the shared space is lengthy . |
| 25 | ‘ This was likely to have happened especially where the original charge was attempted rape . |
| 26 | The ‘ rodent-run ’ display takes an entirely different form and is employed especially where the local predatory species are always on the alert for small rats , mice , or lemmings . |
| 27 | Keep down or the same thing might happen to you . ’ |
| 28 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 29 | ( c ) Profit share This is a matter which depends upon agreement with the continuing partners and may , eg where the new recruit is of some seniority , involve reductions in their shares . |
| 30 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |