Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 2 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 3 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 4 | I am sure they feel much safer in open water , where their surrounding radar system of lateral lines can be used to utmost effect . |
| 5 | An example of this would be the value of a piece of equipment where its gross book value would be represented by the total volume of water in the two reservoirs . |
| 6 | He chewed and stared to the south , where his precious parchment sheets might even now be ash , blowing on the storm wind of the new shaman 's power . |
| 7 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 8 | On Aug. 18 Ratsiraka declared Madagascar to be a federation of six states with himself as President , claiming to have the support of the five provinces where his ruling Arema party continued to hold majorities in the regional councils . |
| 9 | For ladies , we have a luxurious health and beauty salon , where our trained beauty therapists and hairdresser will be happy to give you a professional all over body treatment . |
| 10 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 11 | A kind choirman gave me a threepenny bit , so my total spending money for the day amounted to tenpence . |
| 12 | Sunday was bath-night , so my big sister Etty would be given the task of looking for my younger brother Jerry , Anna , the youngest of our family , and myself . |
| 13 | ‘ I opened Keith 's shirt and saw a bullet hole just a little bigger than my middle finger nail . |
| 14 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 15 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 16 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 17 | Diesels have greater rate springs than their equivalent petrol models , as they are heavier vehicles . |
| 18 | Old World monkeys have narrow noses with downward pointing nostrils — like man 's — and can rotate their thumbs , which allows them more manipulative skills than their New World relations . |
| 19 | In addition , the assets may constitute " new assets " from a previous roll-over relief claim under s152 TCGA 1992 , so that the vendor will have a " lowered " base cost in them than their actual purchase price . |
| 20 | No-one was more cheerfully downhearted than their Barbarian captain Kari Tapper , sporting a tightly wrapped knee following an injury in a soccer game the week before Catania . |
| 21 | Interpretations of settling characteristics based on the most minute elemental particles , of which many thousands may combine naturally to produce flocs or aggregates , may give a very misleading guide to the energy levels in the depositional environment , for flocs settle at much greater rates than their individual component particles . |
| 22 | ( e ) shareholders who paid a much higher price for their shares than their current market value may simply react emotionally to an offer which would involve them in a loss . |
| 23 | Systems coping with cursive script are fewer and on the whole less accurate than their unconnected character counterparts because recognition of cursive script is much more difficult . |
| 24 | Midhurst and Petworth were actually less affluent than their respective market areas . |
| 25 | These often involve vowel sounds having their Creole rather than their expected London pronunciations . |
| 26 | Information collected on the professional experience of front-line practitioners revealed that the majority of police officers w&re more experienced than their social work counterparts . |
| 27 | And this lot treat the New FADS like nothing less than their favourite pop group . |
| 28 | Some members of this Government are becoming more ludicrous than their Spitting Image puppets . |
| 29 | IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium . |
| 30 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |