Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where my nearest brush with show business was when my father , a tailor , made Ronnie Hilton 's jacket for Buttons in Cinderella at the Hull New Theatre . |
| 2 | This article identifies conditions under which the service activities of professionals and paraprofessionals can be more productive and where their joint contribution to human well-being can be enhanced . |
| 3 | One solution is to integrate roses in mixed borders where their bare appearance in winter and early spring is disguised by adjacent shrubs . |
| 4 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 5 | She does n't get a newspaper and had to ask the social security for new shoes for the two children at school where their last pair of trainers got holes . |
| 6 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 7 | Obviously when the agency claims allegiance to an established precedent where its formal interests in pollution control or its organizational interests are served , it lends further support to the principle of equity . |
| 8 | So we tried to look deeper , particularly for a way of applying our money where its unique lack of strings could help add most the eminent scientists on the Venture Research Advisory Council — the Chairman Sir James Menter , Sir Rex Richards , Sir Hans Kornberg and Professor John Cadogan — contributed their expertise to this slow painstaking process as did my colleagues in the Unit . |
| 9 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 11 | As a representative of non-Zionist Jews Wolf played an important role at the Paris peace conference of 1919 , where his close association with the British delegation helped to bring about the conclusion of the minority treaties . |
| 12 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 13 | That will comprise a potentially exempt transfer regardless of where the life tenant resides or where his ordinary place of residence is or where he is domiciled . |
| 14 | His work was frequently illustrated , not only in magazines but also in books ; in William Johnstone 's Creative Art in Britain ( 1950 ) , in Herbert Read 's small but significant survey , Contemporary British Art ( 1951 ) , and in Wyndham Lewis 's The Demon of Progress in the Arts ( 1954 ) where his large painting of the dice-playing soldiers in the Crucifixion scene , The Gamblers ( Colour Plate XX ) , was reproduced with the observation : ‘ The symbolic power of John Minton 's picture requires no comment . ’ |
| 15 | Or ‘ Hot Thing ’ , where his descending drone-chant of the title makes him sound like a machine , subjugated to the moronic sex-beat . |
| 16 | Only on the south side , where his biggest battery of light cannon stood , did Nicholas build his bridge from the start almost entirely with stone . |
| 17 | But , having outgrown Stowe and with time to kill before going up to Cambridge , he gravitated , almost inevitably , to the London School of Economics , where his active interest in politics began to overshadow his desire to be a poet . |
| 18 | His research was mainly in atomic physics , where his theoretical studies of the impact of elementary particles on atoms were steps towards the discovery of the meson . |
| 19 | We have some knowledge of these processes in cases such as proxemics , where our spatial orientation to objects may be observed as both cultural and normative ( Hall 1966 ) . |
| 20 | In the pinewoods below the cliff the air was still and I remember being distinctly intimidated by the size of Raven Rock , where our first tick of the day was to be found . |
| 21 | On the official side it was a great help to be able to speak with one voice , especially where our specialized knowledge of equipment and operational needs of the boats were concerned . |
| 22 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |
| 23 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 24 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 25 | It mocked me , but at the same time I knew I was in danger of surrendering to it , that damned semblance of what I wanted — I was being weakened by it , seduced into yielding to your power over me , and it 's so much more comprehensive than my one-dimensional influence on you . |
| 26 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 27 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |
| 28 | Or , at least , the bat 's sensation of her mate may be no more different from my visual sensation of a flamingo , than my visual sensation of a flamingo is different from a flamingo 's visual sensation of a flamingo . |
| 29 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 30 | ‘ It is better than my earlier victory over Terry Griffiths because I played much better , ’ said Higgins , who produced a mature break of 99 in the eighth frame to kill off Terry 's revival as he battled back from a 3-0 deficit . |