Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For where rapes are not differentiated , it tends to be assumed by police and prosecutors that true rape is rape with clear indications of violence . |
| 2 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 3 | Sharpe knew it was important for Dornberg to know where the Emperor was , for where Napoleon rode , that was the main French attack . |
| 4 | Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller . |
| 5 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 6 | This principle is not confined to any one set of living conditions , for where meaning , order and joy are generated , then any environment can be turned into a welcoming home . |
| 7 | Of course we must be concerned for justice , and for where justice is violated . |
| 8 | Lessing 's close-set eyes followed him , and Nathan Holland who was hurrying after lest Paul slip on the stairs . |
| 9 | These included the transfer of the Metal Industry portfolio to Deputy Premier Cho Yong Nim ; the appointment of Deputy Premier Kim Tal Hyon as Chairman of the State Planning Commission ; and the appointment of Yi Song Tae as Kim Tal Hyon 's successor as Chairman of the External Trade Commission . |
| 10 | The horns have also been sought after as dagger handles by rich Arabs and this involves the killing of the animals . |
| 11 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 12 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 13 | But this is not altogether relevant for although Cordelia is essentially a fine character and her sisters mainly corrupt , there are the opposites ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in both of them . |
| 14 | Most of the time he 'd nothing more serious to worry about than squirrel shit on the seats if ever he left the windows open . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't think what you 've got to cry about , ’ said my mother , managing to imply that she herself had far more to cry about than Lili and far too much strength of character to do so . |
| 16 | ‘ Next ’ is not exactly fashion , not what The Face or Vogue would recognize as such anyway , but then successful survivors have far more important things to think about than fashion ; it is more a statement of lifestyle . |
| 17 | In terms of exercise , horses seem better provided for than runners . |
| 18 | This was because their programmes for investment of capital funds ( i.e. funds for the construction of new facilities ) , to support which ‘ growth ’ revenue for the running costs was of course required , were completely taken up with the task of moving general medicine out of over-provided London to the under-provided hinterland of Essex . |
| 19 | Some people are more aware of the goals they are working towards than others and subsequently have a greater sense of direction and purpose . |
| 20 | Anyway , I started hitting doctors for dikes after that and then , when this smack started coming around , it was easier to get hold of than dikes . |
| 21 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 22 | Despite Than Shwe 's promotion , many commentators continued to regard Brig. -Gen . |
| 23 | Okay I 've I 've heard of cos X |
| 24 | Despite calls of if Rentokil won , Rank would terminate the contract , Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory . |
| 25 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 26 | To revert to our earlier terminology : given that all tribunals are delegated power in the form of if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , you may or shall do Y , everything relating to X becomes potentially jurisdictional . |
| 27 | The molar extinction coefficient has units of if c is in and I is in cm , so that A is a pure number . |
| 28 | It 's certainly , the appraisal interview is a good opportunity to , to address the issue of because communication is difficult |
| 29 | If he did n't answer the leg , he got a quick reminder from the schooling whip — something I should have done but had chickened out of because Skipper 's reaction to a schooling whip had been to throw some rather impressive bucks . |
| 30 | Eric and myself went out and did a physical re-count last week of wha a whole bay of because numbers were n't adding up . |