Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in 1974 the Supreme Court had ordered President Nixon to surrender tapes in connection with the Watergate affair ( when Democratic Party premises had been broken into by Nixon 's supporters with his knowledge ) , no court had ever ordered a former President to surrender personal notes , and Greene 's decision was a departure from a ruling in the case of Oliver North , where requests for such material had been denied . |
| 2 | Dr. Yeats had replied that he had only followed the practice in Edinburgh hospitals , where cases of venereal disease were isolated . ) |
| 3 | The Anglian Water Authority has provided facilities for walking , picnicking and car parking on the margins of the lake , where views of the water and the very fine surroundings landscape can be enjoyed . |
| 4 | There continues to be potential growth points in other areas of research , particularly where contacts with other Departments overseas are strong . |
| 5 | Where conflicts between the Roman and Celtic branches of Christianity continued to erupt , she favoured the Roman rite . |
| 6 | This problem , which , where conflicts of interest are involved , becomes one of ideology , need not lead to overt conflict , however , because the groups concerned may be quite unaware of the discrepancy . |
| 7 | Where conflicts of interest arise ( should minerals exploration be permitted in a caribou reserve ? see Sheldon , 1988 ) there are precedents and procedures for resolving them . |
| 8 | Register-drift or register-clash , where forms from one register surface unexpectedly in another , often indicate that a style is not under control . |
| 9 | The council is providing cash towards the cost of a major survey in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , where plans for a Community Action Plan are under way . |
| 10 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 11 | These new political ideas and researches have also stimulated debate about the scope of social rights , especially in the prosperous industrial countries , but also , in quite different circumstances , in poorer developing countries , where conceptions of ‘ development ’ itself have to be reconsidered in a new context . |
| 12 | But the problem has now transferred to the town centre , where crowds of young people , sometimes in excess of 150 , are gathering at weekends . |
| 13 | In the former Crich Cliff Quarry is the Tramway Museum , where tramcars from all parts of Britain and abroad are preserved in working order , with a half-mile track on which a regular service operates with trams decorated with authentic Edwardian advertisements . |
| 14 | where norms of co-operation and high output are established because of a feeling of importance , physical conditions may have little impact . |
| 15 | Birthtales gave us insight into the most essential human experience , birth , where artists from different cultural backgrounds found a common ground . |
| 16 | The first , inadequately expressed as ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht treaty , is that the Community should expect to exercise power only where flows of things or people across frontiers make such power truly necessary . |
| 17 | Once an area is known it is also possible that , where houses with large gardens and potential for demolition and redevelopment are offered for sale , the developer may be able to effect a purchase . |
| 18 | The old tollhouse further upstream by the site of the totally removed old bridge is a very desirable residence with ubiquitous modern coachlamps at the door and surrounded by bungalows built ‘ where groups of fine cattle were grazing on the rich grass ’ , that made JTR ‘ covet the power of the animal painter . ’ |
| 19 | Nick and I got up and went outside , where groups of friends were gathered . |
| 20 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 21 | More figurative work in both paintings and drawings old and new shows up at Forum all this month and next where canvases by Gregory Gillespie and Alan Feltus co-mingle with those of George Grosz , Oscar Bluemner , Edward Hopper and John Graham . |
| 22 | In the centre of the room was a deal table with a top that was scrubbed daily , it had a large cutlery drawer and one of the four turned legs was well worn where generations of cats had sharpened their claws . |
| 23 | OLEG SALDYKOV claims to have succeeded where generations of alchemists had failed . |
| 24 | The effect as a whole is like that of A Midsummer Night 's Dream , where pairs of lovers wander in another enchanted wood , their paths crossed and tangled by puck , Oberon , Titania and the infatuating Bully Bottom . |
| 25 | In the second pattern , where pairs in amplexus are matched for size , the males may be better able to resist displacement by other males . |
| 26 | Mimicking a hawk could also be useful in Africa , the European cuckoo 's wintering ground , where birds of prey are numerous . |
| 27 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 28 | There is direct evidence of owls in some of the French caves , where pictures of owls are included among the other animal drawings . |
| 29 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 30 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |