Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where my future lies , whether it may be with Williams , Ferrari , or elsewhere , I really do n't know . |
| 2 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 3 | I other day I tried to work out where my favourite resorts would come in the German magazine 's top fifty . |
| 4 | Serve dessert wines with a slice of Christmas cake , pudding , or my two desserts . |
| 5 | Does it help me to make sense of the atmosphere in my school , or my own feelings ? |
| 6 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |
| 7 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 8 | There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones . |
| 9 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 10 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 11 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 12 | Most other aspects of personnel management are single-status , too , although IBM UK has gone with the national trend by providing cars for managers where their outside counterparts would merit cars . |
| 13 | Trees of a pendulous habit are for streams and riversides where their fallen leaves can be whisked away by the rains of autumn and winter . |
| 14 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 15 | Presumably this principle would apply to trade unions taking action in the same dispute where their fellow members had been injuncted . |
| 16 | Savage Orc Shamans are best placed with units of Savage Orcs where their protective tattoos will be enhanced . |
| 17 | Administrative elites form part of a cohesive , co-ordinated and self-conscious vanguard of social or business elites where their real interests and loyalties lie . |
| 18 | A year later George and Mary Sumner moved to Farnham Castle , where their two daughters were born . |
| 19 | They settled principally in the towns of East Sussex , particularly Rye and Lewes , where their new gospels found a welcome reception among men who misinterpreted the speed with which Henry VIII was prepared to change the church . |
| 20 | Most of the Powis Square mob frequented a particular betting shop where their noisy ways were tolerated . |
| 21 | In his discussion of two lyric poems Keith Green suggests that the deictic expressions occurring in each text guide the reader in the construction of a context where their symbolic meanings can be realised indexically , i.e. where they perform a referential function . |
| 22 | but where their filmy skins caught the light |
| 23 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 24 | So we 've got to start from where the kids are , where their musical experiences are mostly . |
| 25 | Wordlessly Roman followed her back to the terrace , where their half-finished drinks stood on the table . |
| 26 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 27 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 28 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 29 | Bernice moved purposefully over to the corner of the passenger section where their meagre supplies were stored . |
| 30 | Some Reiver families went further afield , to America 's Wild West , where their cattle-rustling instincts were once more allowed full rein . |