Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 2 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 3 | This is done when some identifiable change takes place , perhaps in the law or in social policy , and the researcher studies its effects by comparing the before-and-after situation or the situation in a group where the change has taken place with one where it has not . |
| 4 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 5 | Her superiors in pastoral studies had , on the whole , been of the opinion it was not merely officious but often dangerous to move a drunk from the place he had chosen to lie down into one where he had not . |
| 6 | P. I wanted to get into something where there was no-one telling me what to do all the time . |
| 7 | I think it 's a difficult subject er in one where somebody 's starting up own business who has n't erm had any experience before |
| 8 | A partnership between a school or college and a company on the doorstep will be different from one where the partners are separated by several miles or an extended bus journey . |
| 9 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 10 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 11 | I do n't want to invest in anything where every day I have to worry whether my managers are going to leave me . ’ |
| 12 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 13 | I leave my first category , therefore , and come to one where the prognosis is less gloomy . |
| 14 | A water where they feed both on the bottom and at the surface can be outwardly identical to one where they feed only on the bottom . |
| 15 | All this represents a move from a reactive approach for the nurse involving tradition , routine , and medical direction to one where her actions are founded on her understanding and judgement and are directed towards the achievement of a previously defined goal . |
| 16 | I was watching someone else picking up his post , a nice-looking man with a stoop , and he was reading his letters and he came to one where he cried bitterly . |
| 17 | But when you get to one where you ca n't do it in your head you 've got to go back to this bit . |
| 18 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 19 | The hard look doctrine therefore represents a shift from a previously more minimal standard of review , where judicial intervention would occur only if there was irrationality , to one where the courts will interfere where the broader list of defects set out above are present . |
| 20 | Because it was early in the week only a few tables were taken and they were led to one where they would be least disturbed by the comings and goings from the kitchen and the noise of the other diners . |
| 21 | We persuaded 99% of our staff to move from a pay system based on Civil Service style grading to one where overall productivity and individual performance were far more important . |
| 22 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 23 | She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself . |
| 24 | Your business will be better handled by an efficient , well-organized , calm office than by one where the impression is one of barely contained chaos ; |
| 25 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |