Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 The strong similarities between English glassware and that in Belgium , northern France and the Rhineland , especially the area around Trier where Carolingian glass factories are known , has suggested that the majority of glassware in England was imported .
2 The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges .
3 It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together .
4 The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat .
5 It is , however , very much a matter of judgement how far it is desirable to pursue coverage at all costs .
6 My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you .
7 ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said .
8 I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view .
9 He was smuggled out of the Scotland camp but it was only a matter of time when his pursuers caught up .
10 And it was only a matter of time when the truth came out .
11 They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do .
12 It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing .
13 Mr Chairman , it 's just , just the sort of reason why we did n't su did n't support spending eight thousand pounds on , on some low pay unit , this is just the sort of thing that we feel that , that Committee 's money should be spent on .
14 Ours is not the kind of house where you expect to steal jewellery and furs .
15 That is not the case in London where the 20 per cent .
16 He looked around the kitchen , tidy but empty , not the sort of kitchen where any serious eating was done .
17 It should be a good experience , not the sort of situation where bands get burned out . ’
18 They removed electrical fuses from outside the flat in Hollywell where Mrs Davison and daughter Jody , 12 months , now live , but failed to get in .
19 After just a couple of minutes when the spray had dried , we brushed out the curls into these beautifully smooth , sculpted waves .
20 Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick .
21 And in an increasingly unsafe world , it 's still the sort of place where you can send a small .
22 There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment .
23 There is always a moment in time when we can make a decision whether or not to vent our anger .
24 The Jewish–Christian tradition identified the gods of polytheism with subordinates of the devil , malevolent spirits entrapping their worshippers , impelling them to worship the created order ( hence the images in temples where polytheists believed their gods to be resident ) rather than the Creator .
25 He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific .
26 Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 .
27 The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked .
28 But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa .
29 This is most clearly the case in referrals where relationship problems were considered primary and where no compulsory admission took place .
30 On the principles relating to constructive knowledge in the ticket cases , the documents upon which standard terms and conditions are usually printed ( quotations , order forms and acknowledgments ) are clearly the sort of document where one would expect to find terms and conditions , and which a reasonable man would read carefully .
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