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 . |