Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family was one generation removed from peasants , and in close touch with the small village of Beni Moor near Assiut in Upper Egypt , where as a boy Nasser spent his holidays . |
| 2 | Everybody else remembers the uproar in what was known grandly as the palm Court , the former bar and dance hall where during the day several lessons were held simultaneously , including at least one assault on the piano . |
| 3 | This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes . |
| 4 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 5 | Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period . |
| 6 | But even more remarkable is the case of the Roman Republic , where for a century designs referring to the moneyers completely supplanted the symbols of the state ; the moneyers had the freedom to choose their own personal designs , such as family achievements or origins ( see fig. 15 ) . |
| 7 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 8 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 9 | It is a sort of looking-glass land where through a veil of tears we see profound beauty . |
| 10 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) Where after a hearing under this section a licensing board is satisfied as to any one or more of the matters mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above , the board may order the closure of the licensed premises and any such order shall specify the matters on which the order is based . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Provided that where after a partner 's death the partnership business is continued in the old firm-name , the continued use of that name or of the deceased partner 's name as part thereof shall not of itself make his executors or administrators estate or effects liable for any partnership debts contracted after his death . |
| 13 | Undeterred , this week he committed his currency to the European exchange-rate mechanism , where despite the lack of gold reserves it appears to be managing bravely . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's Underwriters , where despite the opposition of the defendants it was ordered that the taking of depositions before an examiner of the court should , as had been requested by the foreign court , be videotaped . |
| 15 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer the contract is called a sale . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 19 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 20 | Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced . |
| 21 | In Chapter 6 we shall find that it is a matter of perplexity where along the chain the fixity sets in which determines a particular result on a particular occasion . |
| 22 | The question is , where along the chain does the collapse of the wavepacket take place ? |
| 23 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 24 | The advantage of this form of development is highlighted by the success of the recently floated Wetherspoon Organisation , where from a portfolio of 44 trading units , 28 have been developed from unlicensed property and a further 18 sites have yet to be converted . |
| 25 | Immediately he joined the others , slid down the pole onto the ground floor where from a peg he grabbed his coat and helmet and put on his overalls and boots . |
| 26 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 27 | Where in a hotel might you use CCTV to help you manage ( which is what efficient communication is all about ) ? |
| 28 | Prevailing weather conditions dictate if and where in a lake carp will feed . |
| 29 | His mother was ‘ outrageous with joy ’ at the return of her lost child , and put him to bed , where in a day or two he recovered . |
| 30 | At Nunney , there is evidence ( poorly recorded ) of another Orpheus mosaic , where in a band bordering a -central square are confronting pairs of large mammals . |