Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] where it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 2 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 3 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 4 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 5 | Comparison is also used to explain a current phenomenon by comparing the past experience of the group where it is occurring with that of a group where it is not occurring . |
| 6 | The eye is the infantile , incipient and sometimes scarcely discernible growth bud that forms in the axil or angle of a leaf where it is attached to a stem . |