Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can apply only where the expression of the legislative intention is genuinely ambiguous or obscure or where a literal or prima facie construction leads to a manifest absurdity and where the difficulty can be resolved by a clear statement directed to the matter in issue . |
| 2 | 16–9 The steamer " Maggie " brought a quantity of dynamite for use at the Ballygrant lead mines , where a rich and thick lode had been found on the farm of Finlaggan . |
| 3 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 4 | It is often necessary where a distinctive and valuable sound made by an instrument or small group of voices can not be heard over the singing of a congregation . |
| 5 | Both replication and review can be carried out only where a full and detailed record of the original experiment is provided . |
| 6 | Where a relative or friend of a person in custody inquires as to his whereabouts , that person should normally be told unless the detainee objects or unless any of the factors , noted above , justifying delay , apply . |
| 7 | Where a false or misleading statement is made in the course of an estate agency business or a property development business , otherwise in providing conveyancing services , the person by whom the business is carried on shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 8 | But in so far as his criticism is based on the right to freedom of expression and its particular relevance where a local or central government authority is concerned , I consider that aspect in the next section of this judgment . |
| 9 | Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin . |
| 10 | Where a light but well-defined bass is required , the double basses pizzicati might double the bassoons playing legato . |
| 11 | With a shrug of her shoulders , Charlotte rose and accompanied Ursula out through the kitchen and into the garden , where a calm and picturesque evening was spreading long shadows and rectangles of gold across the lawn . |
| 12 | Conversely , where an uneven and granulated wash is desirable ( such as in a mixture of ultramarine and burnt umber , which tends to separate and granulate in a very attractive way and is a good alternative to the deadening effects of lamp black ) then water with a high mineral content should be used by stirring a teaspoonful of cement powder or plaster into about half a pint of water , allowing the solids to settle and using the relatively clear overlying liquid . |
| 13 | The impact of this resolutely conservative and often authoritarian political ideology can be felt right across the field of social and economic policy where an idealized and homogenized vision of ‘ The Black Community ’ is the object of a discourse that urges it to take care of its own problems and assume the major burden of managing its own public affairs . |
| 14 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
| 15 | Agreement has been reached at national level that where an APT & c member of staff is sick on a public holiday he/she is entitled to a day off in lieu . |
| 16 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 17 | Although a complex and costly procedure , over the years many authorities have acquired powers by this means to perform particular functions in their localities : for example , to maintain the external decoration of listed buildings ( Kensington and Chelsea ) , and to operate a municipal bank ( Birmingham ) . |
| 18 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 19 | Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage . |
| 20 | But , although a professed and conforming Anglican , he was often reviled as an atheist . |
| 21 | Although a free and critical mind , he reached reasonably conservative conclusions about the New Testament — which pleased the nonconformists and the bishop on the board . |
| 22 | The alternative approach to competition policy involves the government trying to influence the structure of the market in which the firm is operating — in other words , creating an environment in which a competitive structure , rather than a monopolistic or oligopolistic one , is more likely to exist . |
| 23 | My message therefore , boring but always to be heeded , is ‘ watch your credit control , say NO more often , ask for increased payments more often , use the reference bureaux more often , if in doubt say no — cash in the company is better than a lazy or non repaying loan . ' |
| 24 | Such a theory will find it hard to repudiate the accusation of being little more than a clever but patently transparent artifice . |
| 25 | However , the preoccupation with violence and lawlessness is part of a long and continuous tradition , rather than a new and unique phenomenon . |
| 26 | Many primitive displays have to be viewed more or less head-on , and even then they produce more of a grey mixture than a black and white image . |
| 27 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 28 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 29 | They were sparse , little more than a wide and overgrown hedge , but at least no dragon would be able to fly through them . |
| 30 | ‘ The world crisis is thus in my view basically a moral rather than a political or economic crisis . ’ |