Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liveries have of course proliferated ; not since pre-1923 days have so many different colour schemes been seen , the only snag being that often two or more liveries are included in the same train where for example the PTE 's dedicated stock gets diverted . |
| 2 | The importance of the procedural knowledge underlying the task only becomes clear in unusual circumstances , where for example the performance of a procedure is interrupted or the precise requirements are changed , e.g. when driving a new vehicle with different control characteristics . |
| 3 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 4 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 5 | A pseudo-variable which controls where in memory the dynamic data structures are to be placed . |
| 6 | From the lawn was a spacious view across the valley of the Teme to Stowe Hill , where in summer the heather up to the skyline showed purple above hanging oak woods . |
| 7 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 8 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 9 | The British liked to think their system was different from the others , but it is not easy , in examining the literature , to discover exactly where in practice the difference lay . |
| 10 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
| 11 | The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees . |
| 12 | The interplay of these factors was complex ; the two areas where the most advanced urban institutions were found were Flanders , where comital control was tight , and Gothia , where by contrast the count of Toulouse 's authority within the great cities was almost negligible , and where the clashes between vicecomital and episcopal powers facilitated independence . |
| 13 | Also two tours from the top take you down offpiste to the road , where by arrangement the hotel bus will pick you up . |
| 14 | Although for safety the main unit must be situated indoors , the hosepipe and solenoid valve will probably be outside but so sited that catastrophic failure of the circuit or a sticking solenoid valve would not cause problems with flooding . |
| 15 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 16 | Paula Hamilton is renowned as the actress in the Volkswagen commercial , who storms out of the house and throws away expensive gifts from her lover , except of course the keys to a new car . |
| 17 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 18 | The differences between the samples ( although of course the numbers are far too small for any quantitative analysis ) can be summarised as follows : |
| 19 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 20 | You need to remind yourself that a visit paid to an elderly relative living alone is a very important occasion , although of course the atmosphere should be relaxed and happy . |
| 21 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 22 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 23 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 24 | ‘ Although of course the majority of these people are provincials , unused to the presence of a member of the Court . |
| 25 | Panels should be mounted in a position where they are least likely to fall into shadow , although of course the movement of the yacht and of the sun will caused this to change constantly . |
| 26 | The National Savings Bank has a large branch network in that its services are provided through post offices and sub-post offices , although of course the nature of these outlets differs considerably from those of the building societies or retail banks . |
| 27 | These difficulties , it is argued , although in part the result of the marginalization of the arts in British education at national level , are also caused by the failure of arts educators to come to terms with the reasonable expectations of those charged with administering INSET at local level and thereby exploit more effectively the support for the arts of those charged with administering education . |
| 28 | Although in return the Yorkshire owners were privately pushed off a proposal for a more grasping division of profits and wages , the Government refrained from balancing the bill by any enforcement of minimum wages or national arbitration . |
| 29 | As fitness and strength improve in successive generations , so new records are created , although in athletics the use of new ‘ compounds ’ somewhat blurs this judgment . |
| 30 | ( It will be assumed in this example that the S&P500 index covers only large shares quoted on the NYSE , although in actuality the S&P500 index includes some over-the-counter shares . ) |