Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where better than this great vault of abandoned statuary and skeletons , to avail themselves of their Catalepsean Nodes for a couple of hours ? |
| 2 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 3 | There were also five four-point alignments , where less than one would be expected . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of the long-standing provision of special clinics , the large majority of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in such clinics , in contrast to other countries , where less than 20 per cent of cases are seen in hospitals . |
| 5 | The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic . |
| 6 | This structure differs from that found for the related H5 histone genes , where less than 150 bp of the proximal promoter region seems to be sufficient to ensure basal level transcription ( 19 ) . |
| 7 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 8 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 9 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
| 10 | Using Fresno as our base , the next two days continue on a grand scale with a visit on Wednesday to Ruanne Dairies , where more than 3000 cows are milked in one herd , and to the Harris Beef Lot where over 100,000 head of beef cattle are finished every year on just 16ha ( 40 acres ) . |
| 11 | In New York State where 25 per cent of the electorate is Black , where more than 40,000 Americans live homeless , where drug dealing and drug addiction terrorize every neighborhood , where bridges collapse and subways defy your tolerance for filth , and where public schools fail to keep most of their students and also fail to teach the ones who stay , what was ‘ the issue of Israel ’ ? |
| 12 | The 100lb Semtex bomb shattered glass in a wide area , most notably in the 23-storey Commercial Union Building , which lost all its windows , and NatWest tower , where more than 200 were smashed . |
| 13 | However , Miller only advised budding for less vigorous roses or where more than one variety was required on the same plant and then a compatible growth habit was essential . |
| 14 | It has been held that where more than one assessment was raised under different statutory provisions in respect of the same amount then , provided these were clearly alternative assessments , they were not void . |
| 15 | I shall allow my hypothetical ideal natural lawyer his fundamental principle or principles and enter no objections as to the difficulties of conflicts between and priorities amongst fundamental principles where more than one is in question . |
| 16 | Moreover , where more than one of such general characteristics are treated as identifying criteria , provision may be made for their possible conflict by their arrangement in an order of superiority , as by the common subordination of custom or precedent to statute , the latter being a ‘ superior source ’ of law … |
| 17 | If free trade remains the objective then agreements on international aspects of competition policy to collaborate in the implementation of competition policy , where more than one economy is affected , will be required . |
| 18 | Provided that where more than one application for a licence has been made in respect of any premises , the licensing board may hear and consider such applications together . |
| 19 | The achievement of a proper mix of specialist and voluntary services and of working links and effective referral systems for the handling of people 's problems where more than one agency needs to be involved . ’ |
| 20 | However , where more than one person is involved as an attacker , section 3(2) provides that : |
| 21 | ( 3 ) Batch input screens ( eg absence and overtime ) where more than one employee 's information could be updated using the same input screen ( updated overnight ) . |
| 22 | results are consistent between assessors , where more than one assessor assessed the same unit/module ; |
| 23 | Here desires to construct a version of the play that best reflects Christopher Marlowe is decidedly the result of continuities and exclusions recognised ( and desired ) by editors anxious to contain the play , to create a singular text where more than one exists . |
| 24 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 25 | As a first step towards dealing with these two questions , the 1977 review proposed that EC policy should increasingly be concerned with problems arising from peripherality , particularly where more than one nation was involved , or from the consequences of other EC policies , such as CAP . |
| 26 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 27 | Where payment into court is made : ( 1 ) by one or more of several defendants sued jointly or in the alternative ( unless the matter is settled by acceptance and the claims against the other defendants are abandoned and they agree in writing ) ; ( 2 ) with a defence of tender before action ; ( 3 ) in admiralty actions ; ( 4 ) where the plaintiff is a person under disability ; ( 5 ) where more than one person is entitled to the money in claims under the Fatal Accident Act 1976 and/or the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 ( Ord 11 , r 1(7) and Ord 11 , r 4(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 28 | Rule 2 of the No 3 Amendment Rules 1991 inserts Ord 25 , r 5A and provides that : where the judgment creditor claims interest pursuant to the County Court ( Interest on Judgment Debts ) Order 1991 and takes proceedings to enforce payment under the relevant judgment ( within the meaning of Art 4(1) of that Order ) , any request or application for enforcement made in those proceedings shall be accompanied by two copies of a certificate giving details of : ( 1 ) the amount of interest claimed and the sum on which it is claimed , ( 2 ) the dates from and to which interest has accrued , and ( 3 ) the rate of interest which has been applied and , where more than one rate of interest has been applied , the relevant dates and rates . |
| 29 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 30 | Inform them , in complete confidence , of any suspicions you have of people breeding dogs on unlicensed premises ( where more than two bitches are kept for profit ) . |