Example sentences of "where the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Land Rover bumped along the track to where the young detective constable , looking chilled and ti red , was waiting for them .
2 Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea .
3 At the end of the corridor which he describes , before you get to the rubbish , is the place where the young make love .
4 Journalists were refused entry to the towns of Curkurca and Dargecit where the pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Ulke accused the army of carrying out similar operations .
5 The only practical problem encountered ( apart from cases where the proffered acknowledgement form was ignored , and the seller returned his own acknowledgement form or called for a special negotiation ) was that some sellers ' administrative systems required the issue of their own acknowledgement form before an order could be logged .
6 Expressed formally this requirement is where the integrated path length is .
7 ‘ Do you know where the General Post Office is ? ’ he asked .
8 Most are in primary schools where the average class size has shot up from 26.1 to 28.8 in two years .
9 They are most at risk along our roads where the average family car can deposit a pound of lead ( 454g ) per year out of the exhaust pipe .
10 This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence .
11 This practice is also not unknown elsewhere , but the preferential treatment for corporate dividend receivers where the effective tax rate is ‘ close to zero ’ ( Aoki 1984 p.238 ) , has been a clear incentive to intercompany stockholding .
12 There is one sequence of note , grade I+/II , approx 200 yds below Balnastraid ( a ruined croft on the left bank ) where the combined gradient/channel/rack outflow produce mini standing waves with a big rock and undercut tree roots to keep things interesting .
13 Paul wonders where the inflatable life preserver is .
14 There is a large area of new build around where the southern fire station will be and I do say will be because it will be .
15 Some people prefer to be called ‘ clients ’ , a term which suggests a rather more active participative role in a dialogue where the professional service provider negotiates an agreed course of action with the recipient of his services .
16 The energy deposited by a gravitational wave in a bar of mass M and length l is where the mean velocity v within the bar is for a wave of strain amplitude h and angular frequency ο .
17 The cusp-cleft boundary is defined to be where the mean ion energy falls below 3keV ( refs 1 , 12 ) , and the cusp-mantle boundary where the ion energy flux falls below 10eVcm r-2 s r-1 sr r-1 .
18 It also agreed to begin negotiations on troop withdrawals from Poland , where the then Solidarity leader , Lech Walesa , at a meeting with the Soviet ambassador in Gdansk on Jan. 18 , had called for the removal of all Soviet troops by the end of 1990 [ see p. 37258 ] .
19 There 's been a lot of hot air generated over many years about grass cutting standards but it 's not an idle thought when I say if anybody wants to see where the best grass cutting takes place then they should visit .
20 A reasonably typical example is provided by Kenchester , where the early ribbon development , extending over some 700 m ( 2300 ft ) , was apparently modified in the course of the second century by a much greater concentration of streets within the defended enclosure ( see fig. 15 ) .
21 Their feet crunched on the brittle undergrowth , leaving sharp footprints where the early morning frost had taken hold .
22 Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain .
23 Dependency levels rose between 1979 and 1990 in all but the geriatric sector , the greatest increases being found in private residential homes where the largest percentage increase in the number of residents had occurred .
24 In 1933 , following a typical dispute over this issue , Alban Dobson of the Ministry of Agriculture sent a letter to the clerk of the Medway Catchment Board in Maidstone , dictating where the critical cut-off point should lie .
25 Given that in the calibration P 1 and P 2 are the initial prices , and substituting equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) into ( 7 ) , the aggregate expenditure index can be written as : The total market elasticity of demand for fertilizer , ε , is then defined and evaluated at the baseline point where the proportional change factor P equals 1 .
26 The Stars are currently racing at Palma while the 470s , Tornados and Flying Dutchmen continue their programmes at Cadiz where the 470 World Championship is the next major event to be held .
27 Some might admit that they use the best vins de taille in their demi-sec Champagnes where the extra sugar content is likely to mask any defects which may appear , but every house naturally declares that all inferior vins de taille are sold .
28 Putting things right , of course , is integral to quality improvement and this is where the corrective action teams come in .
29 The isosbestic point is in fact the point where the molar extinction coefficients of reagent and product are equal .
30 Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed .
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