Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GLC 's strategy of funding voluntary groups was less appropriate in smaller cities , where the visible lesbian and gay communities were proportionally much smaller . |
| 2 | Such a claim is most likely to be instituted where the deceased son or daughter was unmarried and was contributing substantially to the maintenance of his or her parents . |
| 3 | Its latest star acquisition is the UK agency for the legendary Mas de Daumas Gassac , where the dry climate and mistral wind makes organic viticulture naturally easier to maintain . |
| 4 | But I always try to stay the night there on my way down through France and on the way back again because of the Hotel de la Poste where the Swiss proprietor and his pretty Norman wife provide such a warm welcome and such good food . |
| 5 | Delegates stressed the need for increased co-operation with eastern European countries , where the recent liberalization and the relaxation of border controls had offered drug traffickers the opportunity both of fresh markets and of trade routes into western Europe . |
| 6 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 7 | Where the comparative blameworthiness or culpability of the parties is taken into account , then the test is an objective one of deviating from the standard of behaviour of the reasonable man . |
| 8 | Under a new Statement of Practice ( SP 7/92 ) , schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage or the specified amount of the notional pool depend on a formula which can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme . |
| 9 | A final climb to the hut finds a way over ice polished rocks , made simple by ladders that snake upwards almost to the hut door , where the friendly guardian and her daughter made us welcome . |
| 10 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
| 11 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 12 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 13 | Most sites bore fruit , even the latter where the black mud and mats of green algae teemed with worms , leeches and wandering snails ! |
| 14 | Two Counsellors had turned to scan the end of the ravine , where the young woman and the big man had taken cover . |
| 15 | This is especially true of the east tower , where the surviving wall and ceiling paintings are among the earliest and best-preserved of their type to be seen anywhere . |
| 16 | The views of Luria , and the findings of more recent work by Ferreiro on South American children , are not well supported by the outcomes of Jones 's Edinburgh study , where the developmental picture that emerges is less neat and tidy than Ferreiro 's work would lead one to expect . |
| 17 | Along at the river 's mouth , at the standing wave formed where the incoming sea and outgoing melt water meet , a flock of terns hover and dive like gnats in the summer air . |
| 18 | It also suggests Mrs Thatcher should initiate a public forum where the Methodist Church and others concerned about social issues could meet her and ministers to seek ways of overcoming the divisions within society , engendering a ‘ new spirit of common commitment and enterprise . ’ |
| 19 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |
| 20 | Uralmash , short for the Urals heavy machine-building factory , is based in Yekaterinburg , a grimy industrial city where the last Tsar and his family were shot and Boris Yeltsin began his career . |
| 21 | Delay in the completion of one work element which prevents the start of the next where the same plant and labour are used can easily be demonstrated . |
| 22 | Only the most severe conflict where the territorial integrity and political independence of a State is threatened can justify interference with third party communication rights through strategic international canals . |
| 23 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 24 | In wholly man-made processes , the ‘ arts ’ run through into the significant areas of dress , ornament , furnishing , decoration , gardening , where many of the same criteria of beauty , harmony and proportion apply yet where the full definition as ‘ art ’ is usually withheld , within the modern specialization . |
| 25 | This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely … |
| 26 | How , though , would the method used here perform if applied to a subject right in the middle of complex situational change , where the social formation and the musical culture are characterized precisely by heterogeneity and seemingly transient affiliations ? |
| 27 | Where the local nobility provided leadership in the rising against the French it was accepted , as the composition of the Juntas shows ; the role of these local notables has yet to be studied , but they represent a type of ‘ patriot ’ in 1808 . |
| 28 | Its strength lay in the relatively wealthy wards north of the borough — Forest Gate , Upton and Park — where the local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie were concentrated . |
| 29 | Included in this list are Great Yarmouth , Hyndburn , Slough , Harlow , Ipswich and Thamesdown ( Swindon ) , where the local authority and constituency boundaries are exactly or very nearly contiguous . |
| 30 | In Hammersmith and Fulham , where the pre-capping levy and the average bill were up by 23% , there was a 5.2% movement in favour of the Conservatives . |