Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , what are the support needs of a step-family where the step-mother has recently given up work , had a new baby , where there are two sets of step-children in pre-puberty and puberty who have just changed house and schools , where one set of children have a good relationship with the non-custodial parent and the others do not ? |
| 2 | where the judge intervened so much that proper cross-examination was precluded ( Jones v. |
| 3 | On 15 March , Yugoslavia lodged a formal claim to the silver in the New York State Supreme Court , where the Lebanon had already lodged a claim . |
| 4 | Red and white , the two colours so far mentioned , are joined by a third , black , to complete the Ndembu system of colour symbolism where the imagery reaches perhaps its most abstract level . |
| 5 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 6 | In a more widely-held company where the directors have only small shareholdings , they will be reluctant to assume legal liability for the affairs of the target given their modest financial involvement . |
| 7 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 8 | A similar effect can be achieved in other ways : for instance , a clause providing that the seller will not refund any sums paid by the buyer effectively prevents rejection where the buyer has already paid the price . |
| 9 | The exceptions may , however , be relevant where the buyer has unlawfully obtained possession . |
| 10 | Where the skill comes really is when you get a large number of aircraft , and it 's using your aircraft the most efficient way you can in the shortest possible time , so you have n't got people hanging around wasting good fuel , you want them ideally plugged in and taking fuel . |
| 11 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 12 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 13 | This is a major advance on the pre-existing system of judicial monitoring where the Government agreed only to the publication of the first but not the succeeding reports of the monitor . |
| 14 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 15 | Dr Heatherton made his entry and ascended the pulpit , where the beadle had already opened a large Bible . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 17 | In tragic theatre , where the character enters already impaired , then doom enters the narrative that much earlier . |
| 18 | Belle Ile was quite spectacular , a castle crowning a hill beside the sea , a vast estuary stretching beyond it , sand where the tide had just retreated . |
| 19 | I open the throttle a bit and head out into the sound , where the tide flows strongly and it is a favoured feeding place for auks . |
| 20 | InterCity has its own clear identity , though the greatest achievements have perhaps been with Network SouthEast , where the tide has really turned , and in Provincial with its own increasing network of imaginative expresses often resulting from stringing several services together . |
| 21 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 22 | On to Wing On Street , better known as Cloth Alley , where you can find silks , linens and wools at incredibly low prices , and where the salesmen know exactly how much you need for a shirt or a suit . |
| 23 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 24 | The Fortune is a tiny gem of a theatre where the boxes sit very close to the stage . |
| 25 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's reached a stage lately where the players look forward with relish to away games . ’ |
| 27 | Its economic functions , for example , have become severely limited ; once a unit where the members produced jointly ( on a farm or in some form of domestic industry ) as well as consumed jointly , the nuclear family has now simply become a unit of consumption only . |
| 28 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 29 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 30 | Around the next corner he came to a hairpin bend where the road turned abruptly inland and up hill to Albert Terrace . |