Example sentences of "where [pron] [be] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be able to see where I 'm going a lot better now , ’ he said . |
| 3 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 4 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 5 | It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors . |
| 6 | Our discussion of these examples suggests that you can use " the " if you have already created a situation where you are naming a group of which the " the " phrase indicates a subgroup . |
| 7 | The graphics are much improved in this game and it also uses a scrolling screen , which means you get to where you are going a lot faster . |
| 8 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 9 | And then there was a bit where a man takes all his clothes off and then just jumps into the river and then there was a bit where she where she 's having a bath |
| 10 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 11 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 12 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 13 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 14 | Erm , there are also provisions in there for the Children Act , where we are holding a contingency of eighty two thousand . |
| 15 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 16 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 17 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 18 | Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree . |
| 19 | I joined them in Gloucester where they were playing a particularly foolish burlesque based on As You Like It . |
| 20 | She had spoken affectionately of them and shown Lou a postcard from Italy where they were spending a holiday . |
| 21 | He looked round the table at Clerkenwell , where they were having a directors ' meeting . |
| 22 | LSI Logic Corp is transferring most of its semiconductor fabrication to Japan , where it is building a new 0.6 micron wafer fabrication facility in a joint venture with Kawasaki Steel Co , and will cut a total of 450 jobs . |
| 23 | Prodescon has already started work at Haywards Heath in Sussex , where it is building a £3.3m. 50-bed private hospital for Independent Care , and at Bradford , where it is building a £3m. extension and refurbishing the Yorkshire Clinic for Community Hospitals . |
| 24 | Prodescon has already started work at Haywards Heath in Sussex , where it is building a £3.3m. 50-bed private hospital for Independent Care , and at Bradford , where it is building a £3m. extension and refurbishing the Yorkshire Clinic for Community Hospitals . |
| 25 | That , and the need to earn a living , are the reasons behind his desire to stay in the US where he is seeking a green card as a full-time athlete having graduated from Stanford University last year . |
| 26 | It 's rapidly reaching the stage where he 's becoming a danger , not only to himself , but to others on the shop-floor . ’ |
| 27 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |
| 28 | ‘ Good idea , ’ he said immediately from where he was enjoying a leisurely read of the newspaper . |
| 29 | Earlier yesterday Ms Place had shown the world heavyweight boxing champion , Riddick Bowe , around Mogadishu , where he was making a brief charity visit . |
| 30 | In Haiti in the early hours of 2 July 1990 Mariano Delaunay , founder of a night school for the poor of Port-au-Prince , was standing on a pavement outside the house where he was attending a friend 's wake . |