Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phenomenon remains extremely rare today in Arnhem Land and the Central Desert , where groups still live more or less traditional lifestyles . |
| 2 | One often sees much worse bunching than this , where notes hardly have room to move . ) |
| 3 | But in spite of Singapore 's cosmopolitan image there is still a very Asian flavour , with the lively Chinese shophouses ( where traders still work out their accounts on the abacus ) and crowded markets alongside the gleaming modern high-rises of the international business community . |
| 4 | Lock-in agreements , where parties expressly agree to negotiate with each other , are unenforceable because they are merely " agreements to agree " and so lack certainty ; lock-out agreements , under which a vendor agrees not to negotiate with third parties , can , on the other hand , constitute valid binding contracts . |
| 5 | They 're fleeing a country where there are now frequent rumours of pogroms , and where Jews routinely suffer open abuse . |
| 6 | Using the ‘ doctrine of signatures ’ — ‘ that many natural maladies carry their cures along with them , or that their remedies lie not far from their causes ’ — Stone had turned his attention to the willow , which ‘ delights in a moist or wet soil , where agues chiefly abound ’ . |
| 7 | The Name of the Father moves the child away from imaginary , fantastic representations of the world , where signifiers and signifieds correspond exactly , into the symbolic order , where gaps always exist between signifiers , between signifieds , and between these two levels . |
| 8 | Where governments directly run media channels or closely regulate private owners ( for example , over TV or radio channel licences ) , the linkages between media corporations and political leaders are considerable . |
| 9 | The wildest , emptiest part of the country — where cauldrons still hang over kitchen fires and shepherds ' dogs wear studded collars to protect them from wolves — is the high , craggy Beira Alta area , where Sabugueiro and Manteigas make great bases for walking . |
| 10 | Links between headquarters and field are becoming more and more depersonalized and bureaucratic : important decisions with major implications for field staff , like those to do with prosecution policy , are made ‘ up in fitted carpet land ’ , where officers never tread . |
| 11 | At the other extreme , where males generally mate with only a single female , the sexes are much more similar in size and appearance . |
| 12 | Where things sometimes go wrong , as they do in every large organisation , the new adjudicator will be there to review complaints and offer an impartial view . ’ |
| 13 | I could be happy here , in this great , shadowy , secret-laden place , where there are unexpected patches of happiness , and where memories sometimes echo back , and where you can feel the history of the years swirl about you . |
| 14 | In the southern US , where pigs often roam far afield during the day , the farmer brings them home at night by means of a hogcall , which goes roughly , ‘ Suuuuuuuuuuiii , pig pig pig pig pig . ’ |
| 15 | A crime may be recorded as cleared by the police for a variety of reasons : where an individual has been charged or summonsed for the offence ( whether or not they are found guilty ! ) ; where an individual admits an offence and receives a formal caution from a senior police officer ; where an individual convicted of an offence asks , before sentence for other offences to be ‘ taken into consideration ’ ( TICs ) ; where forces officially take ‘ no further action ’ and the offence is written off . |
| 16 | Only a rutted bridle track , where orchids still grow , led to it by way of a dilapidated wooden bridge over a stream ; the oak avenue which once lined the way gradually fell . |
| 17 | On Saturday morning , we watched outside the Stadhuis , where couples still marry in the Gothic hall . |
| 18 | Feminist humour is astutely observed by Jackie Fleming in Never Give Up ( Penguin , £4.99 ) , where women always have the last laugh . |
| 19 | The slow movement is a highly introspective affair , never afraid to dig in deep where others merely navigate surface implications . |
| 20 | While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous . |
| 21 | In normal recruitment procedures , where applications are invited from as wide a range as possible and where interviews subsequently take place any protection an employee may have had previously ceases . |
| 22 | Conifers other than yew usually resent harsh treatment , however , and are difficult to rejuvenate , Deciduous species are best pruned hard back in late winter , evergreens in late spring — cutting one side a year back to a foot within the intended final width to allow room for regrowth . |
| 23 | Although houses now look cheap again , relative to average earnings , there are major constraints on demand still — even if the Chancellor resists the temptation to act on mortgage interest tax relief this time around . |
| 24 | There a lot more drakes than ducks though look , are n't there ? |
| 25 | One exception is 1987 , with the peak and fall of equity prices more apparent in the stock data , although flows noticeably slow in early 1988 . |
| 26 | In each of these patients it was clear that the raised CDAI was caused either by the presence of symptoms which although contributin substantially tot he CDAI were not caused by active inflammation — for example , superimposed symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in three patients and subacute intestinal obstruction from fibrous stricture in two patients , or to symptomatic anaemia ( one case ) . |
| 27 | Although employers generally reimburse the direct costs of buying and selling property , there are some firms which place limits on this . |
| 28 | I like a bit of subversion — something that makes waves — although artists always smooth out in the end . ’ |
| 29 | That there are , for instance , kangaroos in Australia and lemurs in Madagascar , and that antelopes rather than dinosaurs currently roam the plains of Africa , is among other things consequent upon a whole series of historical contingencies . |
| 30 | Will he accept that we are asking the Social Democratic and Labour party and the unionists to work more closely than parties normally do in Great Britain ? |