Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hockey is a very low game and it 's all in the quads in your upper legs and I can move into the ball without slowing down , where as a bigger guy has to run in and stoop down ’ . |
| 2 | The new breed of Pub retailers are seeking new prime sites , where as a large managed operation , designed to a specifically targeted market with a minimum potential trade of £15,000 per week , the full advantage of creating an enhancement of site value is achieved . |
| 3 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 4 | Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs … |
| 5 | A necessary condition , where for a steady state is that . |
| 6 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 7 | This section also covers cancellation of a holiday where after a 24 hour delay in departure the insured decides to cancel . |
| 8 | However , notice need not be given where the defendant does not appear , or where in a fixed date action he has failed to deliver a defence in time . |
| 9 | This cuts down processing and response time of calls where in a Distributed Relational Database Architecture environment , client requests have to be translated at the server , which increases system overhead and makes database access less flexible . |
| 10 | However , the enforcement agent in a compliance system regards prosecution as a sign of failure , where in a sanctioning system it becomes visible evidence that he has done his job . |
| 11 | Walkers will enjoy the Brown and Clee hills , 11 miles away — where on a clear day one can see eleven counties ; and 20 miles away , the Stretton Hills . |
| 12 | The Makaa River was two miles now on a dead run . |
| 13 | represents the ‘ weak ’ poverty trap , where over a wide range of earned income the effect of explicit taxation plus implicit taxation via the loss of means-tested benefits means that disposable income remains largely unaffected . |
| 14 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 15 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 16 | He then went to Jig Jigga , where at a mass meeting of Somalis he swore on the Koran that he was a Muslim . |
| 17 | Go left to reach the small square of Piazza Sant' Eufemia , where across a small lawn that is longer than it is wide and bordered by tall conifers , you will see the church that gives the piazza its name . |
| 18 | If we restrict the focus to the same five newspapers — The Mirror , The Times , News of the World , Sunday People and the London Evening Standard — and for the years 1971 and 1978 include the Sun , we see what appears to be a steady proportion of one-quarter of this growing number of trials reported , except for a temporary surge in 1978 to two-fifths . |
| 19 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 20 | Whatever it was they were after , it was an unknown quantity , unknown , that is , except for a lethal ferocity . |
| 21 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
| 22 | He loved soccer and could n't remember baseball ; neither could he remember California , except for a vague recollection of sunshine and a white house and what seemed an enormous swimming pool , although Clare laughed and told him it had really been quite small — for LA . |
| 23 | The house looked quiet and the same , except for a strange car parked by the front door . |
| 24 | Beyond the gates , the channel which carved its way through salt-marshes and mud flats , out into the Estuary , was empty , except for a sluggish trickle at the bottom . |
| 25 | On the chest of drawers was a photograph of his elder brother Pedro in uniform , his pale patrician face the image of Angel 's , except for a black moustache . |
| 26 | After a theatrical demonstration by the instructor , everyone managed to perform this procedure satisfactorily , except for a young Second lieutenant medical student , who landed badly and broke his ankle . |
| 27 | The other friends were all Parisian except for a young couple , Rumanians living in Paris , distant relations of Teodor . |
| 28 | ‘ Except for a three-minute pause in a back-of-beyond , we stop at Thunder Bay for twenty-five minutes at ten-fifty tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 29 | No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 30 | He was nude except for a drooping condom . |