Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind driven generators are economical where wind velocities average 6 m/s or more . |
| 2 | Clearly , such an arrangement necessitates the use of more elaborate and comprehensive timber framing than would be employed in a narrow barn where masonry walls provide all the support for the roof . |
| 3 | Where arts projects follow this model ( the Art and the Built Environment Project show some features of this approach ) there seem to be difficulties in persuading participants to respond to the evaluator 's findings ( Pring , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins , plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines . |
| 5 | By the same token , the level of takeover activity where UK companies acquire other EC companies is considerably less . |
| 6 | The Notts County star had been expected to travel north to last night 's clash at Ewood Park , where money-bags Rovers lost 3-2 against Everton and missed their chance to bounce back to the top of the Premier Division . |
| 7 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 8 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 9 | Where depth counters emerged these were linked to surface perceptions with the spots , for example , stimulating the following response : ‘ There 's spots on there , and I guess that 's another reason why I want to go into that area . |
| 10 | This is the best frequency to use under pack ice , where fin whales spend some of their time ; it also penetrates well through the open ocean . |
| 11 | Worst affected is Sheffield , where Nox concentrations reached 47.7 parts per billion . |
| 12 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 13 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 14 | The resultant strain tends towards symmetry as the crystal grows , so that although snow crystals exhibit great variety of detail , little difficulty arises in their recognition . |
| 15 | The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place . |
| 16 | 1781 so Benin alloys exceeding 30 per cent of zinc must be later than this date . |
| 17 | Although conference representatives seemed muted in their applause for Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , when he defended water privatisation , they responded well to his support for Mr Lawson 's increase in interest rates . |
| 18 | Thus , the further education element in the United Kingdom is completed in the school system although community colleges do similar work , often with an older age group , in the United States . |
| 19 | One study , for example , has shown that children separated early on from their schizophrenic mothers are not only more likely than control children to become schizophrenic themselves but also show greater artistic and musical talent . |
| 20 | Buyer said although space considerations make this difficult , it is being looked at . |
| 21 | Furthermore , WIRS 's focus on matters other than employment practices means that information on certain useful contextual variables , particularly with respect to labour force structure and labour costs , was not available to test all the hypotheses the literature suggests . |
| 22 | The dissection of human rather than animal corpses became important to this new status . |
| 23 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 24 | Last year official sales figures were FFr200 million ( $34.78 million ) , a 30% drop on the previous year although attendance figures remained constant at 140,000 . |
| 25 | It is also noticeable that slightly fewer men than women informants reveal any significant memory . |
| 26 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 27 | Although class teachers have considerable personal autonomy over their classes with regard to both the mathematical content and the manner in which this is encountered , they are far from free of the social world which they , and , as importantly , their pupils inhabit . |
| 28 | Old ladies with thick stockings holding veins like knots of worms , and men whose eyes are duller than clay alleys dream other dreams and watched the numbered screen , killing time , hoping for a win . |
| 29 | ‘ Although house prices remain weak , building society commitments and advances are stronger and both housebuilders and estate agents are now reporting increased activity . |
| 30 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |