Example sentences of "where [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 For 90° corners where resistance needs to be kept low or to reduce noise .
2 Yesterday Mr Prescott could not guarantee road improvements in the North-East until specific criteria had been established to judge where money needs to be spent .
3 Another area where progress remained to be made was indirect taxation — specifically Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and excise duties .
4 One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement .
5 Agricultural trade unions have described the system as ‘ feudal ’ and ‘ legalized serfdom ’ , while farmers have defended tied housing as being essential to farming ( especially livestock farming ) where labour needs to be on immediate call , an aid to labour mobility within the industry and a considerable tax-free perquisite .
6 Figure 2.2 identifies where action needs to be taken either defensively or offensively to influence the forces in their favour in order to pursue the goals of that firm .
7 The Association for Stammerers would like to increase our understanding and patience of stammering in a world where fluency tends to be taken for granted .
8 The commonsense view that to proceed with care is to proceed slowly can also be reversed in high level skills , there are instances where speed seems to be an essential accompaniment of delicate discrimination ( Lacy , 1978 ) .
9 But in a world where nature left to its own devices is as grim as it is in much of the Soviet Union , the belief that you can bend it on the heroic scale is unlikely to go away .
10 However , the basic National Insurance retirement pension by itself is not enough to bring her above the point where tax begins to be charged , so if she has no other income apart from this , she will not be asked to pay tax .
11 In R v Manchester Justices , ex pBannister [ 1983 ] 4 FLR 1977 , a case decided under the old law where residence had to be " habitual " rather than ordinary , the court held that a child resides where it eats , drinks and sleeps .
12 In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost .
13 I still feel it is a dangerous proposition to be in and we could end up in a situation where development comes to a full stop .
14 And to be far away from home and in a situation where life had to be lived as if each day was your last must have intensified every sensation .
15 the fraction of those planets where life leads to the development of intelligence
16 To these can be added rough figures from Staincline wapentake in Yorkshire , where status had to be inferred as it was not recorded .
17 Besides the obvious pointers this gives to where effort needs to be applied , it may also open the possibility of changing customer expectations .
18 Section 5(2) — ( 4 ) deals with cases where property belongs to the accused before he dishonestly appropriates it .
19 Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief .
20 Thus , antidepressants should be prescribed in adequate therapeutic doses ( Johnson 1973 ) where there is clear evidence of underlying depressive illness , not where depression seems to be entirely symptomatic of social problems .
21 If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks .
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