Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 2 | Under the original proposal for the flow of financial resources measurement focus , the line was drawn between monetary assets and non-monetary assets , where only changes in monetary assets affected the operating statement . |
| 3 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 4 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 5 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 6 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 7 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 8 | He chose the city of Selma , Alabama , to dramatize the issue — a city where the blacks outnumbered whites , but where only 3% of blacks were registered voters against 97% of the white inhabitants . |
| 9 | He was offered little support as he walked the edge between the endowment , its critics , the art world and Congress , where even supporters of the arts were reluctant to go on record as voting ‘ for tax-funded pornography ’ . |
| 10 | A NEW book , Organised Obsessions : 1001 Offbeat Associations , Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join , lists hundreds of groups where even folks with the most unusual interests can find kindred spirits . |
| 11 | ‘ I can think of one client where almost 90% of their income is generated outside the UK . |
| 12 | Those three areas are : education , welfare and health , where over 18% of women in Northern Ireland are working ; this is where we find the women in the RVH ; in clerical and related jobs — a quarter of women in Northern Ireland are in that area ; and another 23% are in catering , cleaning and hairdressing . |
| 13 | The leading spirits behind the club were Major Yeats Brown , the Bengal Lancer , Dr Robert Forgan , deputy leader of the BUF , Sir Donald Makgill and Captain Luttman Johnson , all of whom where either members of the BUF or had close connections with Mosley . |
| 14 | There is , however , nothing to stop the PC1512 being used where either text on it own or simple text and graphics from programs like Gem Draw are involved . |
| 15 | Although perhaps Belinda with a bowl of fruit … ’ |
| 16 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 17 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 18 | So far we have considered models in which all agents face the same information problem , although obviously agents in the island model have different information depending upon which island they are located on . |
| 19 | It is worth recording , however , that further investigation showed that both acidic paper and detached pages appeared to be significant factors in the assignment of items to Categories 4 and 5 ( the two ‘ worst ’ categories of overall condition ) , since although only 27% of all items requiring repair had loose pages , 43% of those in Category 4 , and 60% in Category 5 were so affected , and although only 18% of all items suffered from apparently acidic paper , 30% of those in Category 4 and 60% in Category 5 suffered from this defect . |
| 20 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 21 | The metropolitan area possessed 50% of all hospital beds and 70% of all qualified doctors in 1979 , although only 16% of the total population were living in the capital.2 There is an acute shortage of medical personnel — only one doctor per 3,700 inhabitants and one trained nurse per 4,000 inhabitants in 1977 . |
| 22 | It is worth recording , however , that further investigation showed that both acidic paper and detached pages appeared to be significant factors in the assignment of items to Categories 4 and 5 ( the two ‘ worst ’ categories of overall condition ) , since although only 27% of all items requiring repair had loose pages , 43% of those in Category 4 , and 60% in Category 5 were so affected , and although only 18% of all items suffered from apparently acidic paper , 30% of those in Category 4 and 60% in Category 5 suffered from this defect . |
| 23 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 24 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 25 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 26 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 27 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 28 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 29 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 30 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |