Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The APLA is believed also to have carried out Friday 's attack in Johannesburg in which white motorists where riddled with automatic weapons fire by black gunmen .
2 Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) .
3 In solid floors , pipes can be laid in an underfloor duct ( not embedded in concrete ) ; note that all pipes and joints should be accessible and , where exposed to cold temperatures , well insulated .
4 Where fed on treated slop the living cells
5 In fact the extant Acts of the Martyrs ( where based on contemporary records and not legends ) do not portray the martyrs as human heroes , but as very frail mortals who are being given supernatural strength .
6 The words ‘ or other record ’ became crucial with the growth of the video industry , when the ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ test was used with great effect to stem the tide of what became known as ‘ video nasties ’ , where viewing in private was no defence .
7 has just completed an up-date for the Teachers ’ Directory to include all the newly qualified teachers and new addresses , telephone numbers etc. where known of established Q.T 's .
8 Empowerment mainly seems to be taking hold in modern engineering and computer firms where dealing with state-of-the-art technology is a way of life and the job content is reasonably high .
9 As well as pushing up financial and other stocks , falling rates should encourage investors to switch some of the FFr1.2 trillion now sitting in lightly-taxed money-market funds into equities .
10 Having said this , the question still remains as to whether such records , particularly where associated with unfamiliar curricular approaches , can successfully challenge the status of external examination certificates in the eyes of the world at large , especially parents and employers .
11 However , emergency measures would remain in Natal province , where fighting between rival black groups continued .
12 It is prevalent in the German Shepherd Dog where breeding for excessive hind-limb angulation may have contributed to the problem .
13 If formed from viscous magma they are normally limited in lateral extent but where composed of basic rocks they may extend for thousands of square kilometres .
14 The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss .
15 Although it is obviously more expensive than sticking with applied adhesive , this method means that you can change fabrics if you like to achieve a fresh effect , and also clean the fabric as necessary .
16 The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time .
17 You were supplementing rather than competing with other musical institutions and also indirectly benefiting other orchestras ?
18 The company is expected to tout the chip as providing the industry 's best dollar/pound-per-MIPS rather than competing on absolute performance .
19 To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne .
20 This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity .
21 Its implications for women and families have been explored , rather than dismissed as marginal phenomena .
22 More use of open ended case studies is made from the second year onwards and the subjects have been unified under broad themes rather than treated as separate subjects .
23 His intervention , although criticized by Slovak leaders , was widely regarded as having facilitated a resolution of the devolution issue .
24 It was found that single daughters , as carers , were under greater pressure to give up work or take part-time employment rather than remain in full employment ( Wright , 1986 ) .
25 The following two tables and chart , although calculated in different ways , are all based upon the idea of socio-economic grouping .
26 It is no accident that in secular lyrics of the period women , apparently the cause of so much self-regarding male rhetoric , ( albeit rescued by humorous and witty posturing ) , are conspicuous by their silence — absent from the lover 's self-dramatisation and the satirist 's easy jibes .
27 One consequence is that less opportunity exists in 6 Form colleges for staff who are less than committed to pastoral care , to be carried .
28 I was warmly welcomed in all cases and an enthusiastic and positive attitude prevailed although mixed with understandable anxiety concerning the radical changes proposed .
29 It would be preferable for Taiwan to be returned to Japan rather than fall into communist hands .
30 Suharto 's pronouncements , although clouded in typical ambiguity , certainly gave the impression that he would stand for a sixth term .
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