Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This form of extension exists for the benefit of restaurants , hotels etc. where the sale of liquor accompanies the service of refreshment , and music and dancing is provided . |
2 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
3 | The appeal lies only where a point of law is involved . |
4 | Most grammar schools were single sex ; mixed schools were usually provided only where the sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls . |
5 | But the narrow stetches were used only where the heaviness of the land made them inescapably necessary ; for their disadvantages were many . |
6 | The infinitives of such verbs are found only where the person of their support is specified ( We want it to snow ) , but not when the support is left undefined , as in certain exclamations , and not in the function of subject ( * To snow is pleasant ) . |
7 | Treaty , applies only where the legislation of a member state treats individuals differently on account of their different nationality . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In urban areas special control can be operated only where the secretary of state is satisfied that there is a need for ‘ special protection on grounds of amenity ’ . |
10 | A court should be slow to draw any such inference , however , since Parliament has in section 4 indicated its intention that an offence should be committed only where the distribution of literature is likely to lead to the use of violence . |
11 | A point should be certified only where the outcome of the appeal depends upon it — the prosecution to appeal where a defendant would be acquitted on the certified point alone if the Court of Appeal 's judgment were to stand ; the defendant to appeal where a reversal by the House of Lords of the Court of Appeal 's decision on the certified point would be his only means of acquittal . |
12 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
13 | As the Law Commission observed , it is possible to justify the continued existence of the offence on such grounds only where the penalty for participating in the fight is relatively light , and whereas the penalty was life imprisonment at common law , it is now three years . |
14 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
15 | She looked up suddenly where a shower of blossom swirled from the cherry-boughs . |
16 | For some , the fist was an alternative to the stick , especially where a conflict with a buck had taken on the form of a personal feud . |
17 | The traditional rhythm of work remains because most operations in agriculture , especially where the growing of crops is concerned , must take place sequentially rather than concurrently . |
18 | ( h ) Windows The lease should make clear whether windows are included in or excluded from the demise , especially where the responsibility for repair is divided between landlord and tenant ( Reston v Hudson [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 51 ) . |
19 | Some countries impose a fixed fee ( e.g. , the United States , where actual costs incurred by U.S. Marshals can vary enormously depending on travel distances involved ) , others seek to recover actual charges levied by , e.g. , a huissier , and others will in practice make no charge , especially where the state of origin is known to operate a similar policy . |
20 | It can be seen that there is a wide variation , especially where the number of dies in a year is small . |
21 | The reservations bourgeois thinkers had about their world were social and political rather than economic , especially where the danger of revolution was unforgotten , as in France , or emerging with the rise of a labour movement , as in Germany . |
22 | Just as banks have a vested interest in the growth of their main customers , they have a clear role to play in limiting the damage that recession can bring especially where the failure of a leading company will affect many of their other customers . |
23 | Helmut Schlesinger has attacked the Commission for overestimating the economic benefits and for under-estimating the risks of EMU , especially where the need for massive transfers from rich countries to poor ones is concerned . |
24 | One might focus particular attention on stress points in the day , perhaps where a mismatch of perception between individuals or even outright conflict occurred . |
25 | Obviously where no party to the contract is acting as a businessman , ( eg sale of a secondhand car between two natural persons by way of private treaty ) the contract can not be a business contract ( as defined above ) , neither party can incur " business liability " , and both parties can exclude liability without reference to the section . |
26 | Not so where an illusion of everyday reality is more important . |
27 | Where the draftsman can anticipate this problem arising ( eg where the lease in question is a sublease or is one of a parade of indentical shops ) he should consider enlarging the powers of the arbitrator . |
28 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
29 | So although the quantity of money required will be larger in the case of monthly payment , the velocity of circulation will be lower than for weekly payment ( assuming total spending is the same ) . |
30 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |