Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type D may best be described as a culture of relations and co-operation , where opportunities exist for creative thinking . |
| 2 | Other such epiphytes include some bromeliads and several orchids , where ants live in hollow pseudobulbs or between the roots . |
| 3 | Such studies have received a lot of publicity , so it is small wonder that the average family doctor suspects a psychological cause rather than a physical one , especially where patients complain of multiple symptoms . |
| 4 | keyhole surgery , where surgeons operate through small punctures in the skin instead of making a large cut , viewing their patients ' organs via an endoscope and watching the process on a screen |
| 5 | And the heart-beat grew louder and louder and closer to my ear , and I heard the deep booming sound of the sea at its very deepest depths , where monsters live in total darkness and corpses of drowned sailors lie in coral dust . |
| 6 | Often this can not be avoided where odours emanate from existing premises and uses , but where new development is concerned planning authorities are in the unique position of being able to prevent odour pollution . |
| 7 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 8 | Visit the Fish Nursery — where tiny baby creatures are reared , where unborn infants can be seen wriggling in their eggcases and where magnifiers focus on fascinating marine life features too miniscule for detection by the human eye . |
| 9 | The company sees China , where AT&T recently signed a memo of understanding opening the way for a wide variety of deals as ‘ a huge opportunity ’ for AT&T although prospects depend on political stability and the country 's continued ability to obtain most-favoured-nation trade status . |
| 10 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Although teachers flinch at such international comparisons , most of them are surprisingly enthusiastic about the national curriculum . |
| 12 | For example , although babies cry for all sorts of reasons — hunger , pain , discomfort and loneliness — they do not cry to ‘ get at ’ their parents . |
| 13 | As a much greater proportion of women than men survive into advanced old age , they increasingly dominate the poverty profile of successively older age groups . |
| 14 | Prey animals may end up spending relatively more of their budget on defensive weaponry than predators do on offensive weaponry . |
| 15 | I 've yet to see anything except weeds grow in this place . " |
| 16 | PRICES in Italy have gone up and stayed up , although Nikki Keep of Italian Country Homes says sensible sellers are now open to offers . |
| 17 | Du n no I , there 's a friend of mine and I 'm selling it in the pa have to advertise in the paper as well so that money 's going to it , I 've made , I 'm having a word with the bank manager for business facilities and then opening an account with him at the bank to er basically get some extra , a business account going which I do n't touch , er I need to get credit facilities done on the bank , accounts and stuff , dad 's gon na look through it completely with me and work everything out , but for the next six , seven weeks I 'll be too busy with the school work to really concentrate on it , cos exams start at seven weeks time now |
| 18 | If yields rise from 10 to 10.5 per cent , then the price of the bond will fall by to 98.75 . |
| 19 | If yields rise from 10 to 12 per cent , the price of the bond will fall by to 95.20 . |
| 20 | If schools respond in different ways to the requirement for guidance , special information and sometimes special effort which attends higher education entry as against guidance for entry into vocational education and training , is this because there are two cultures ? |
| 21 | Failure to benefit from some union policies need not preclude membership if advantages accrue from other union policies . |
| 22 | If companies stick with on-cost rates on direct labour , percentages in the hundreds or thousands are not unusual . |
| 23 | Imagine an economy in which firms , for whatever reason , agree to fix prices at the end of period t to cover period t + 1 and t + 2 and not to alter these prices in either period t + 1 or t + 2 if circumstances differ from those expected at the close of period t . |
| 24 | But if fish respond to these common herbs , what other plants are to be found in their environment that they usually respond to ? |
| 25 | If retailers buy in large quantities ( buying in bulk ) the manufacturer will probably offer a discount ( ie provide the goods at a slightly reduced price ) . |
| 26 | But if Sweden go through this time we will try to arrange extra games . |
| 27 | All this testing is on-going and if suppliers falter in any way they are quickly informed . |
| 28 | If properties let on long leases to tenants of the highest covenant are sold for cashflow or balance sheet enhancement the substance of the group will have been sacrificed for short-term advantage . |
| 29 | If problems arise in everyday life , they may begin by some rational search and analysis , but they are looking for aspects of the situation that reflect prior experience ( that are stereotypical ) and , once they recognize those aspects , they switch to a more holistic and intuitive assessment based on their understanding of those stereotyped elements . |
| 30 | Russia will beat Poland up , I 'm sure , if things go on this way . |