Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 2 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 3 | The path continues for around a mile to the Bloody Bush pillar — named after a dispute over where exactly the border ran . |
| 4 | It is still disputed where exactly the dome based upon pendentives originated , but its adoption for use in Christian churches is now accepted as being from eastern influence not , as was originally thought , from Imperial Rome . |
| 5 | Where not a habitation stood before , |
| 6 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 7 | A thick black slick now covers parts of Cannop brook , where once the water flowed clear . |
| 8 | ‘ In other words , ’ I answered , ‘ the Earl of Angus bedded where once the falcon had , between the sheets with Queen Margaret . ’ |
| 9 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 10 | The structure of the society , too , may vary from a large extended family system where care for all dependants — the young , the elderly , the mentally handicapped , the ill — is shared , to the small nuclear family , typical of the Western world , where often the state has taken over many of the traditional caring activities of the family , with their attendant safety aspects . |
| 11 | This is the Lyricist Lounge , where twice a month aspiring rappers run new rhymes past each other in something that 's closer to an old school jam than to videogenic 1992 hip hop . |
| 12 | This is in marked contrast to desktop publishing programs where almost every element has to be created externally and then imported . |
| 13 | The nearer the pilgrim approached the Pyrenees the deeper he penetrated a countryside where almost every landmark had some kind of association with Roland . |
| 14 | Sister Asuncion 's convent was completely destroyed by a bomb attack , although luckily the community had been warned and everyone had gone into hiding . |
| 15 | A selection of owls from Ti-N-Terirt in Morocco ( Lhote , 1970 ) includes the obvious outline of an eagle owl , top right and bottom left , and the ones with the closed face shield probably represent barn owls , although apparently the artist got confused and combined the ear tufts of the eagle owl with the facial disc of the barn owl on some of the bottom pictures . |
| 16 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |
| 17 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 18 | The more easterly of the two valley roads which combine at Pierrefitte takes you first to the charming town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur , which may look like one place but is really two , with more than just a hyphen dividing them . |
| 19 | Does he agree that the law should be changed so that the police have a duty rather than just a power to act under section 39 ? |
| 20 | But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick . |
| 21 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 22 | The Beta version of Ultrafax from WordStar/Zsoft we 've been pre-viewing is the link between your Windows applications and the rest of the world 's fax machines , but offers more than just the facility to print your documents remotely . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 24 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 25 | Spenser 's depictions in Book V are more than just an attempt to justify Grey . |
| 26 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 27 | Was it more than just an in-joke to make George 's chauffeur go under the name of Chomsky ? |
| 28 | She was n't always an Englishwoman either , although more often than not the headmaster gave one of his parents British nationality . |
| 29 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 30 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |