Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private sector companies do not have this luxury however , and operate on a funding scheme where money placed into the fund is used to finance future pension payments . |
| 2 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 3 | On the whole his face gave little away , unlike Mr Kinnock 's , where emotion raced like the shadows of cloud and splashes of sunshine over a landscape . |
| 4 | where IR stands for the Band 7 reading and R ( red ) for the Band 5 reading . |
| 5 | At the foot of the cliff , where debris slipping from the cliff is liable to collect , a steep gradient is needed to enable the sea to comb the material down the beach , but , although this action may assist in the formation of a concave profile , it is probably not the sole cause of the concavity . |
| 6 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 7 | Malta , in comparison , must have been a doddle : a civilised , sophisticated holiday island where traffic keeps to the left , letter and telephone boxes are scarlet , the coinage matches ours , and everyone speaks English . |
| 8 | I was shown into a bare room where paper spilled from the desks then taken back round the main hall . |
| 9 | The latter answer is given , for instance , by those favouring a Bureaucratic Politics model , where policy emerges from the interplay of domestic bureaucracies , as we shall see in Chapter 7 . |
| 10 | Some of the earlier references to the area have confirmed that this was near the site of the 17th century Kings Forge , where iron produced in the Kings Furnace , a mile away , was refined . |
| 11 | It 's a land where doom hangs upon the air like poison gas . |
| 12 | ‘ faultless ’ manager of the Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , ( opened 1826 ) , where CD stayed on the eve of his departure for America in 1842 . |
| 13 | Investigations using an emission analyser identified the bag house , where air exhausted from the paint mixing tanks is filtered , as the main culprit . |
| 14 | This is reflected in cl 2.2 of Precedent 2 , where risk remains with the seller until delivery to the buyer notwithstanding delivery to storage . |
| 15 | Information disclosed by one party to another in the course of negotiations will be subject to the obligation of confidence where information relates to the subject matter of the negotiations and has the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 16 | It is interesting to contrast this statutory definition of monopoly of " one quarter " with that of economic theory where monopoly refers to the existence of a single firm . |
| 17 | On the more favoured soil of America , where no medieval ruins bar the way , where history begins with the elements of modern bourgeois society as evolved in the seventeenth century , the working class passed through these two stages of development within ten months . ’ |
| 18 | It is an arresting paradox — although , admittedly , only a seeming one — that where child-rearing veers to the exact opposite extreme to that represented by the Schreber case and becomes a liberal democracy , or even anarchy in microcosm , the eventual consequence , if I am correct , may well be a totalitarian macrocosm . |
| 19 | Colonies are easily detected by females at a distance , especially in species where advertisement displays on the many nests are given in synchrony to produce a vivid tree-sized orchestration of sound and movement . |
| 20 | England is ideally suited to uncovered pitches , where time lost to the weather can be made good by allowing the bowler a natural means of compensation . |
| 21 | This compares with depreciation on the Dumfries building where production ceased during the year . |
| 22 | Infant sexuality moves into the anal phase next , and some adult sexual aims derive from this phase where interest centres on the erotogenic possibilities of the anus . |
| 23 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 24 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 25 | Both managers said their style of leadership was authoritarian , where power focuses with the manager as opposed to democratic , where power focuses with the group as a whole . |
| 26 | Both managers said their style of leadership was authoritarian , where power focuses with the manager as opposed to democratic , where power focuses with the group as a whole . |
| 27 | Although Futurism succumbed to the ravages of the First World War and its surviving adherents were later to be put to flight by Mussolini , many of its observations and its leading artists , such as Severini , Picabia , Boccioni and Balla continue to inspire the main stream of modern art . |
| 28 | Although cholecystitis stopped in the three months follow up in that case , we did not consider this technique for our patient because of her history of fistulas . |
| 29 | The partial imputation shades into the split rate system , which treats distributed income in a more favourable tax manner than income retained by the corporation . |
| 30 | But these preventative powers do exist , because once violence occurs on the streets , once there has been a breakdown of public order , then the damage has been done . |