Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 2 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 3 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 4 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 5 | For cheaper up-and-coming areas , she advises buyers to look around the Bastille and Le Valois Perret , where prices work out at £20-£40 a square metre — about £100,000 for a typical two-bedroom flat . |
| 6 | Double.length shifts are usually provided , where bits shifted out of one register of the double.length accumulator are shifted into the other . |
| 7 | Why was I reminded of Parent-Teacher Association concerts , where mums dress up as Madonna ? |
| 8 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 9 | The first is in the village 's neat cemetery , where fields run up to a distant hedgerow and a sign by the gate says ‘ Fast Food Service ’ . |
| 10 | Research in child development suggests that there appear to be no differences between male and female humour , at least until school age , where boys go in for practical jokes more than girls . |
| 11 | The northern section of the colony was settled by people from Virginia rather than emigrants brought out by the proprietors , and the southern section by emigrants from Barbados as well as from England . |
| 12 | Front-line troops were being used up quicker than units pulled out into reserve could recover ; moreover , they were demoralised by what had happened inside Douaumont . |
| 13 | Although gamsabhavas died out after the imposition of British rule , headmen and other intermediaries often negotiated compromises . |
| 14 | Although managers require up to date information they have access to more information on a day to day basis than external users . |
| 15 | Our survey shows that people with bank accounts are much more likely than others to shop around for credit , and to use lower-cost forms of credit . |
| 16 | If more than lip service is to be paid to the notion that we are all equal , then it must be first acknowledged that we are born unequal , and that some of us have to work harder than others to make up for it . |
| 17 | Different players will find it harder than others to come down from a game . |
| 18 | In the first case there were probably between 135,000 and 170,000 woollen and worsted textile workers involved in the dispute , although estimates go up to 240,000 , and every union and all sections of the textile workforce were unified in the action which they took . |
| 19 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 20 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 21 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 22 | If relatives come in with a new resident , begin to get to know them as well . |
| 23 | Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment . |
| 24 | Well again it could be sinister if things get out of hand , but er , er , and I think the speaker 's warning in that respect is fully justified . |
| 25 | ‘ If things go on like this , there will be no doormen and that will make it even worse , ’ he said . |
| 26 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 27 | ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising . |
| 28 | They 're better than lamp posts and that , cos trees grow out of the ground , so they 're extra special like . |
| 29 | ‘ If ships go down in shallow water , ’ adds Michael Cohen , ‘ cargoes are damaged by the tides . |
| 30 | If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe . |