Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They reached the turn in level par , having birdied the 5th , where Stewart chipped to four feet , and bogeyed the ninth .
2 Intensive rearing practices have been blamed , where animals kept in cramped and often unhygienic conditions are fed on high protein feeds often containing the remnants of slaughtered chickens contaminated with salmonella .
3 Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company .
4 Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company .
5 For more than twenty years , Rockwell 's work has been shown in the Norman Rockwell Museum , a small white clapboard house on the main street of picturesque Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where visitors grew from 5,000 people in 1969 to 160,000 today .
6 Staff involved included S. Buchan , W. Edwards , R. C. B. Jones and J. V. Stephens who helped with the mapping of the Orkneys and Shetlands where work started in 1927 .
7 In the hall , turning to Martin , she said , ‘ Come and see the table before you go upstairs , ’ and hurried forward to the dining-room , where Martin exclaimed in genuine appreciation of the table , beautifully decorated with flowers , glass , and silver and set for sixteen people .
8 Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes .
9 Bonsall was an important centre of framework knitting in Derbyshire , and one of the early workshops , where knitters worked in primitive factories instead of in their own homes , can still be seen .
10 Where Sorenstam finished at 11 under par , Helen Alfredsson , her sister Swede , came in at seven under .
11 The heaving Hunslet certainly proved to be a nostalgic sight at the colliery , former home of Whiston 's sister loco Robert , and a base where steam-power reigned until 1978 — with a back-up steam loco surviving there until just six years ago .
12 Production in the industrial sector fell by 3.1 per cent , worst hit being the car industry where output fell by 23.4 per cent .
13 Where monks sat in quiet contemplation , guests now seek sanctuary from the city 's bustle amid lush palms and ivy .
14 Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers .
15 Where patients presented with multiple ulcers , however , details of only the four most significant were requested , so information on only 470 ulcers was obtained .
16 Strongest organic growth came on the Continent , where profits rose by 150 per cent in France and 70 per cent in West Germany .
17 The city itself , with more than a million people , is America 's seventh largest and where California began in 1542 .
18 Some of it was undoubtedly derived from associations with British India , where graveyards abounded in miniature pagodas and obelisks .
19 Nevertheless , their souls met at the weekend in Rick 's Cafe Americain , where men dressed in crisp linen suits drank bourbon beneath whispering ceiling fans under the watchful eye of a Moroccan inspector of police .
20 We have provided in the Finance Bill that where property held on discretionary trust were settled before 26th March 1974 a different — and almost invariably more generous — basis of charge will apply .
21 The crucifer Braya humilis was originally described as aperiodic in northeast Greenland ( Sørensen , 1941 ) , where flowers produced in late autumn were retained frozen but viable in snow until the following spring ; the same species was found to be periodic , with a late summer growth check , in the harsher snow-free conditions of Hazen , north Ellesmere Island ( Savile , 1972 ) .
22 where boxes lined with red and white tissue
23 Sect. 46 , sub-s. 1 , of the Housing Act , 1925 , says this : ‘ Where land included in any Improvement or reconstruction scheme … is acquired compulsorily , ’ certain provisions as to compensation shall apply .
24 where senators barked from curtained litters ,
25 As well as making various suggestions for changes to the VAT regime , problems were perceived where shares received from unapproved share option schemes have become valueless .
26 Only in the sub-discipline within archaeology called ethno-archaeology , where archaeologists worked in contemporary ethnographic situations in order to study the relationship between peoples and their material world , was it usually impossible to ignore the social basis of material culture ( e.g. Gould ed. 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 ; Hodder 1982a ; Kramer ed. 1979 ) .
27 Leeds could n't immediately pay Fulham their share of the takings for the match at Elland Road on Christmas Day , so Fulham retaliated by withholding money from Leeds after the return match at Craven Cottage on Boxing Day .
28 Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D.
29 Although revenue tripled in real terms during the seventeenth century the budget was not brought into balance .
30 In Britain , the ‘ Darwinians ’ led by Huxley succeeded in dominating the scientific community of the late 1860s and 1870s , although opposition grew in later decades .
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