Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boot-and-brushing room , where Twomey did the hunting clothes and Dada 's clothes and boots and shoes ; a lesser room for lamps and other people 's boots and shoes . |
| 2 | For those who argue that the 1925 legislation represents a series of reforms in order to facilitate conveyancing the foundation of the legislation lies in s. 1 , Law of Property Act , where Parliament reduced the number of estates and interests capable of existing at law : |
| 3 | The danger of the approach is that it allows the courts to intervene even where Parliament intended the tribunal 's decision to be final . |
| 4 | The Bar has lost by the gradual extension of county court jurisdiction ( where solicitors have the right of audience ) ; and the income limit for legal aid in civil cases has fallen well behind inflation , so that few people are now eligible for it . |
| 5 | Where steps follow the slope of a bank , retaining walls can also be stepped |
| 6 | In some cases it is also hard to measure scheme cost , eg where aid takes the form of tax concessions . |
| 7 | In fact where r represents the learning rate . |
| 8 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 9 | They walked back to the forest track where Corbett dismissed the porter . |
| 10 | Where poetry involved the distinction between ordinary and poetic language , and narrative that between what one might call literary form and its non-literary content , literary history as conceived by the Formalists entails a distinction between automatized and perceptible form within literature itself . |
| 11 | At one extreme was an electroplating plant where management took the view that operators were unintelligent and unreliable . |
| 12 | When these five worked together , they soon opened a 30-second gap and , despite all the efforts of the field , they stayed together to the finish where Graham won the sprint from Martin with all five times equal . |
| 13 | The second , and less obvious , was Lindsay Anderson 's film This Sporting Life where Hartnell took the role of an ageing rugby talent scout ; a somewhat sad and reflective character who looked back with fondness on his years in the game . |
| 14 | Where individuals had the choice , they preferred to save money even at the risk of continuing to live in fairly insanitary and certainly uncomfortable dwellings . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the contrast is best made for introductory purposes by thinking about the middle of the range , where individuals take the stage in a social capacity , as , for instance , Prime Minister or Secretary of State . |
| 16 | Thus the Japanese sentence ( 97 ) ano-hon-wa John-ga kat-ta That book-topic John-subject bought means roughly " as for that book ( or , talking of that book ) , John bought it " , where wa marks the topic , ga the grammatical subject ( where topic and subject are identical , only wa is used ; Gundel , 1977 : 17 ) . |
| 17 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
| 18 | Under this regime , the most solid nerves can not resist for long ; the moment arrives where the blood mounts to the head ; where fever burns the body and where the nerves , exhausted , become incapable of reacting . |
| 19 | Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction . |
| 20 | In Case 73/84 Denkavit Futtermittel , it was held that where directives regulated the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , but did not regulate health inspections of those products , Member States could still justify national health inspections under Article 36 . |
| 21 | At a mass rally in the Guildhall , where McAteer shared the platform with Major Gerald Glover of the Unionist Party , Hume roused the crowd with a speech which made no reference to partition or traditional nationalist grievances , but emphasised the common heritage and common interests of all the citizens of Derry . |
| 22 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 23 | Where Jesus led the way in his acceptance of the Old Testament as the word of God , the New Testament was content to follow . |
| 24 | One unit now remains on the estate , where tenants include the Post Office and Securicor . |
| 25 | Democracy might not be much , in his view , but everything else is worse ; and a robber-baron , as he once remarked to the Marxist scientist J. B. S. Haldane , is better than an inquisitor , since greed sleeps easier than dogmatic certainty : ‘ where Mammon vacates the throne , how if Moloch takes his place ? ’ |
| 26 | Consider next a curve in space where s measures the curve length from some reference point along it . |
| 27 | They left after that drink and went back to the house at Lochgair ; Rory and Kenneth cleared a tangled choke of bushes and shrubs at the rear of the garden , where Mary wanted the lawn extended . |
| 28 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 29 | In a closed system the given amount of initial free energy becomes less readily available as the system develops towards a state with maximum entropy , where entropy signifies the degree to which energy has become unable to perform work . |
| 30 | Where demand outstrips the number of licences , the NetWare Loadable Module will be able to create a waiting list that enables users to launch the software when a slot becomes free . |