Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museums are part of an educational system , and part of the entertainment industry ; and the problem was particularly acute in scientific museums , where botanical and zoological research was going on . |
| 2 | Where textual or illustrative copyright material is to be included full information of the source of the material shall be provided . |
| 3 | Where half or full board has been booked , flight timings may necessitate the loss of one meal ; in such cases the holiday price has been reduced to compensate . |
| 4 | The fact that many syllabuses and teachers ' books are full of relevant and challenging content and that in every country schools can be found where interesting and exciting work is in progress , must not obscure the central problem . |
| 5 | Snow-capped mountains , the River Limmat and the blue Lake Zurich lend their charms to this beautiful Swiss city where old and new blend in absolute harmony . |
| 6 | As multicultural education is cross-curricular in its scope , many parent groups regard the right of a parent to withdraw his/her child from religious education or collective worships ( but not sex education ) as offering insufficient choice where cultural or religious autonomy is at issue . |
| 7 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 8 | What is required is a balance where basic and applied research co-exist and catalyse further developments . |
| 9 | Where national and international pressure has been effectively mobilized in defence of such victims of state-sanctioned abuse victories are often won . |
| 10 | Scott ( 1987 ) , for example , has examined the impact of more frequent clearance that is now being practised by the Campa Indians in the Gran Pajonal area of central Peru , where primary and secondary forest is interspersed with savanna and grassland . |
| 11 | Here , at the water 's edge , you have a small beach and sundeck with a bar/snack bar for lunches and a restaurant where international and Creole cuisine is served . |
| 12 | Where less than full disclosure suffices , for example , as a matter of custom , a clause that made adequate disclosure might , if subject to UCTA , be rendered ineffective as an unreasonable exclusion clause . |
| 13 | In cases where the dog is healthy or where surgical or medical intervention stand a good chance of success , most veterinary surgeons would try to dissuade the owner or offer rehoming . |
| 14 | One might quibble with these distinctions , but the proposal is simple : BSL is a language for conveying information and will be optimal where accurate and immediate knowledge is the goal ; methods imposed on this medium will be tailored to specific educational goals and these will be a function of the priorities of teachers , parents and society . |
| 15 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 16 | On the whole , however , where metropolitan and urban health conditions are not detrimental , children born to rural mothers have poorer chances of surviving infancy and early childhood than do those born to mothers residing in urban , particularly metropolitan , areas . |
| 17 | This may happen where someone makes a recording for anything other than private and domestic use without consent . |
| 18 | Although acute and chronic pancreatitis are considered common diseases in many Western areas , surprisingly few epidemiological studies on large populations have been reported . |
| 19 | The breaking and training process will need to be longer than usual and extra care must be taken to ensure that new lessons are clearly taught . |
| 20 | We do not know whether peaks ( and troughs ) in phenylalanine control are more ( or less ) harmful than persistent but moderate hyperphenylalaninaemia . |
| 21 | Under pressure from government economic policies and spending cuts , the predisposition to rethink conventional provision is slight , except in so far as as competition for student numbers , effective teaching hours and fee-income intensifies the concentration on popular recreational and leisure pursuits , rather than innovative and developmental work in areas which can not be relied upon to be lucrative . |
| 22 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |
| 23 | Nothing less than clear and unambiguous advice to obtain independent legal advice would probably be necessary to avoid the restraining hand of equity ; unless the attempt to give this was frustrated by circumstances beyond the reasonable anticipation of the creditor : see Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 24 | For all its drawbacks as a theoretical base for the sociology of knowledge , the social constructionist accounts do suggest the importance of common-sense knowledge , of knowledge in ordinary social interaction rather than theoretical or scientific knowledge . |
| 25 | Many have been formulating charging policies for services other than residential and nursing care . |
| 26 | Lothian 's water and sewerage charges are amongst the cheapest in Scotland and cheaper than English and Welsh water companies , based on the information available . |
| 27 | Stories can mobilize us to action and affect our behavior — more powerfully than simple and straightforward information ever can . |
| 28 | The repetition of a consonantal sound , usually at the beginning of words , although medial and final alliteration are common , eg After life 's fitful fever . |
| 29 | The criminal law includes only one type of non-consensual sexual act as rape , namely the insertion of penis in vagina by force or threatened force ; it excludes sexual intercourse between husband and wife , no matter how much the latter is beaten by the former to exercise his ‘ conjugal right ’ ; it excludes most sexual acts achieved by fraud , deceit , or misrepresentation — thus a man may pose as a psychiatrist and prescribe sexual intercourse as therapy to a ‘ gullible female ’ , because he knows the law will regard this as acceptable seduction rather than rape ; it excludes men who use economic , organizational , or social power rather than actual or threatened force to overcome an unwilling but subordinate , and therefore vulnerable female ; it excludes the forced insertion of any other instrument , no matter how sharp or dangerous . |
| 30 | They see the output of state policies in the USA as the result of interagency negotiation , rather than central or local direction . |