Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also particularly useful where highly sensitive and subtle matters need to be covered , and where long and detailed responses are required to understand the matters the respondent is reporting on . |
| 2 | A recent study of the use of a printed PRECIS ( PREserved Context Indexing System ) index for subject searching reveals that searchers who adopted a broad search formulation strategy where more successful than those who took an exact matching approach in accessing the index . |
| 3 | But , just before the reader buries the portfolio matrix once and for all , he or she might remember that I said that my case would not be complete until the end of chapter 8 , where more organizational and behavioural matters will be considered . |
| 4 | Considerable evidence has accumulated that there is a genetic component to bipolar depressive disorder , that is , where both manic and depressive episodes occur . |
| 5 | Claridad movements arose in Peru ( where both Mariátegui and Haya de la Torre were involved ) , Argentina , Chile ( where the magazine published some of Neruda 's early poems ) and Brazil . |
| 6 | Transitional stages in the evolution of definite cross-veins may also be observed in wings of the more specialized Palaeodictyoptera and among living Orthoptera , where both irregular and definite cross-veins occur in the same wing . |
| 7 | There is a bar and restaurant where both international and Creole specialities are served — the number of outside guests visiting the restaurant is proof of the quality of cuisine ! |
| 8 | He then gave a resumé of the practical contents ; directions for the kitchen garden , with vegetables through the seasons ; the fruit garden , where some erroneous methods of pruning were corrected ; the flower garden , where both exotic and domestic blooms might be raised and , finally , the wilderness , where the correct choice of shrubs and trees and particularly their size and shape was all-important . |
| 9 | Slowly , what was beginning to emerge — largely as a result of El Cid 's efforts — was a Spanish kingdom where both Christian and Moor could live at peace . |
| 10 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 11 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 12 | Great damage could be caused to the prospects of the adult education centres , where currently vocational and so-called leisure courses exist happily side by side . |
| 13 | Honey bees , whose workers , although uniformly female and genetically identical to the queen , are infertile . |
| 14 | Although apparently punctilious and conservative in manner and dress , he had a shrewd business appreciation of practical detail and people 's tastes in leisure activities . |
| 15 | The political reform proposals included open meetings of grass-roots party organizations ; the selection of officials up to the rank of Deputy Minister , district APL first secretary or divisional Army or militia commander , and of all enterprise and institution directors , to be " based on elections by the working people , on merit " in order to " have as few cadres as possible appointed directly from above " ; a limit of two terms in office for all members of elective party and state bodies , including the People 's Assembly ( parliament ) and the APL central committee ; a choice between candidates in elections to these bodies ( albeit only communist or communist-backed candidates ; Alia categorically ruled out abandoning " the hegemony of the APL " and allowing rival political parties ) ; and reduction in the bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 16 | It is n't rewriting history to say that the project was a successful one , albeit less spectacular than first thought . |
| 17 | Albeit less impressionistic and insightful , Kemp 's analysis is of broader scope and greater clarity than de Santillana 's . |
| 18 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 19 | There is no suggestion that these honours were ‘ bought ’ , nor that the recipients were anything other than entirely worthy and deserving . |
| 20 | Although highly inventive and productive , this questionnaire can provide only explicit responses , rather than insight into actual practices , and , through processing , has created a normative characterization of the diverse social fractions involved , which are seen as an exemplars of a larger , statistically-based model of class . |
| 21 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 22 | The series is a variation of Hans Christian Andersen 's fable of the Emperor — and it is more rather than less pointed because here the clothes are fabulous . |
| 23 | If anything , the deepening and lengthening recession made it more rather than less unlikely that the electorate would turn to Mr Kinnock as an economic messiah . |
| 24 | The psychologist Jeffrey Gray , who is also quoted by Askwith , more clearly distinguishes these , although perhaps unaware that he is doing so : ‘ How can you know , in advance , whether an experiment will be relevant ? |
| 25 | The south side of the Torridon pass is also entirely mountainous , with a sprinkling of Munros , although less intimidating and more inviting than the north flank . |
| 26 | The new coast of the continent , although less fertile than the plains of old , has been planted and cultivated and once more chariots run along the coastal strip . |
| 27 | The mosquitoes which carry malaria breed far north into Europe , and although less virulent than some tropical species , they were still responsible for many deaths . |
| 28 | Although less common than raw corpora , tagged corpora are becoming more common with the development of reliable ( >95% correct ) automatic taggers ( e.g. CLAWS ( Garside , 1987 ) , PARTS ( Church , 1988 ) ) . |
| 29 | Renault 's Zoom , although less exotic than the others , has in many ways the most to offer . |
| 30 | Maurice Raynal , although less extreme and volatile in his thought than Apollinaire , adopted much the same idealist view while realizing that abstraction was not the end or goal of Cubist painting . |