Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I also knew then that seeing the film at a matinee on a weekday was an illicit pleasure for her .
2 The nature of these skills will be discussed below , but at this point it is necessary to recognise that seeing the process in this , light may create a gap between a teacher 's purpose and a child 's purpose for engaging in project-work methods .
3 Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ .
4 Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ .
5 This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power .
6 They really mattered in a society remote from our own where the prestige of many professions , including the polite ranks of clergy and the armed services , catered to the motivations only of duty , vocation , or ambition .
7 Where the skyline of the town in 1440 is composed of spires , expressive of religious aspiration , the vertical accent in 1840 is provided by factory chimneys , whose smoke ascends as incense to the new God of Mammon .
8 Beggars , the mark of over-populated underemployed Spain , were rare in an egalitarian society where the peasant held his land on a secure tenure and at a low rent ; where the hold of the anarchic nobility had long been destroyed ; where it was socially impossible to evict ; and where women were the social and legal equals of men .
9 Likewise Granton where the Duke of Buccleuch had constructed the harbour for his own needs in the mid 19th century .
10 At Dungavel House , where the Duke of Hamilton had his residence , there was a private landing strip .
11 You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high .
12 Along the Neapolitan coast , in Sicily and Calabria where the percentage of illegal building reaches 85 per cent , the beautiful sea is ringed by the blight of straggling concrete towns , without roads , water , sewage , lighting or social amenities of any sort .
13 Where the requirement for additional labour can be specified precisely , and the organisation knows precisely how long it requires the staff concerned , fixed-term contracts are most appropriate .
14 One was in the field of biogeography , where the migration of small populations to new areas could be seen as the chief cause of the branchings in the tree of life .
15 But the narrow stetches were used only where the heaviness of the land made them inescapably necessary ; for their disadvantages were many .
16 In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’
17 In the Castle grounds you will find the ‘ 1066 Story ’ where the story of the Castle and the famous Battle of 1066 is portrayed in an exciting audio visual presentation .
18 It is an Aboriginal understanding that the fauna and flora of the landscape has an ‘ increase centre ’ — an area of high electro-magnetic energy , where the performance of correct rituals will release the life essence or Kurunba stored there and bring about the desired increase .
19 I went out where the rest of the staff were working and I told them ‘ I am leaving .
20 It is not unusual to have a sink water heater even where the rest of the house is supplied from a hot water storage cylinder .
21 What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) .
22 In a system where each worker depends on many others — and where the success of the company depends on all — the only appropriate measurement of accomplishment is a collective one .
23 The 1986 Act states that the power is only exercisable where the education of pupils at the school is likely otherwise to be ‘ severely prejudiced ’ .
24 By the 1790s these shock waves had triggered off another seismic event , sending North America ( where the struggle for national independence had already begun in 1774 ) not only away from the English Crown but on the road to a republican state .
25 The assassin missed both ; not so the firing squad in the Mexican city of Querétaro where the dream of empire ended with the shooting of the Emperor Maximilian .
26 This is his daily morning campaign meeting where the progress of the election is monitored and it 's those tactical voters that dominate the discussion .
27 For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) .
28 From this they slide into ‘ Blinding Sun ’ , which has the mighty Mudhoney wallowing in a '60s psychedelic timewarp where the influence of the 13th Floor Elevators can be clearly heard wailing in the basement .
29 He won the majority of votes in the Afro-Mauritanian south as well as in the capital , and in the Trarza region where the influence of the maraboutic orders ( of Moslem holy men ) remained strong .
30 This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis .
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