Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opencasting was carried out where a new Supermarket now stands , and the final load of coal is ready to depart for Barrow Hill behind shunter 08509 . |
| 2 | Performance was relatively weaker with small scale acoustic recital and chamber material where a certain hardness sometimes intruded . |
| 3 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 4 | He 's from rural New South Wales , where a working dog really works . |
| 5 | ‘ If you know where I might lodge , where a young woman alone — ‘ |
| 6 | This used to happen on both the Chipmunk and the Tomahawk where the elevator control loads become much heavier during the spin and where a half-hearted movement forward on the stick may be insufficient to stop the spin . |
| 7 | We want houses to reciprocate our feelings of loss but , like the rectangle of unfaded paint where a favourite mirror once hung , they give us nothing to reflect upon . |
| 8 | Nor is it even very suggestive ; it provides no clues as to why this first phase of class struggle is so much more advanced in Italy ( where the Communist PCI regularly obtains almost a third of the popular vote ) compared with the United States ( where a socialist party hardly exists ) . |
| 9 | A hardy annual , it can be grown in any garden where a few patches here and there can be a delight . |
| 10 | AUTOBUS Post-New Wave whizz-kid Eric Rochant follows A World Without Pity with a trip to the French provinces , where a passionate youth quietly dying of smalltown boredom hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 11 | The Code allows it , where the suspect consents , or where a senior officer reasonably believes that delaying interrogation will involve an immediate risk of harm to persons or serious loss of , or damage to , property ’ or ‘ cause unreasonable delay to the processes of investigation ’ . |
| 12 | The ‘ cost of capital ’ may be low enough and there may be a strong demand for the type of commodity which the investment project aims at producing , but if other competing enterprises are able to supply the same commodity or a close substitute more cheaply ( or of a higher quality ) then the project will not be ‘ commercially viable . ’ |
| 13 | They went in single file , stooping frequently , clutching a handrope to prevent themselves slipping on the wet stones underfoot , exchanging brief whispers of warning to each other to beware of pothole here or a slimy boulder there . |
| 14 | Relief often comes with a discharge such as the menses or a nasal discharge etc . |
| 15 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |
| 16 | One must decide whether to use a unification-based approach , an ATN system , a Marcus parser or a transformational grammar etc . |
| 17 | You can use a remortgage for a variety of schemes — to start up your own business , to buy a car or a second home overseas . |
| 18 | There was a rustling from the long grass down the hill — yes , it was the path I came up yesterday ( was it only yesterday — or a million years ago ? ) and Vern reappeared out of the undergrowth . |
| 19 | Hollywood stars were safe to fall in love with , dead or a million dollars away . |
| 20 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 21 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 22 | There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed , but this may not be easy to find . |
| 23 | Now , as you can see from the dots , the relationship is n't perfect in that everybody who 's older than somebody else necessarily earns more but there 's a sort of trend or a general pattern So there seems to be a relationship between the variables of age and income . |
| 24 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 25 | Their lack of other skills or a decent education often pushed them into routine manual labour , though jobs within football did increase between the wars . |
| 26 | You can tell the Volunteer Co-ordinator or a specific charity exactly how much time you can give them . |
| 27 | There are two main ways in which genetic engineering can be used in agriculture : ( 1 ) by the introduction of a specific gene or genes into a plant or animal cell so that the performance of that plant or animal is enhanced in a particular way through the new trait which has been added , and ( 2 ) by the introduction of a gene or genes into a bacterial cell which will cause the bacterium and its subsequent generations to perform a useful function , for example , to produce a protein toxic to insects or a specific compound especially valuable to farm animals or to man . |
| 28 | I know er , down at Corfe Junction or a one road across or one another across or there was one road going to Wimborne , one going to Broadstone , up road and down road . |
| 29 | Tax at the reduced rate of 20 per cent is due , which amounts to £38 a year , or a few pence over £3 a month . |
| 30 | Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months . |