Example sentences of "[is] the [noun] of [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its southernmost end is the village of Gargrave where the river Aire , the Skipton — Kendal road , the Settle-Carlisle Railway and the Leeds-Liverpool canal all meet to travel among the low-lying valleys of the Aire and the Ribble . |
| 2 | One of the greatest fascinations of provincial printing in Britain is the diversity of localities where presses were set up , often , for example , along the line of canals , where labour was cheap and plentiful … another fascination being that this is a relatively unresearched area , its local beginnings in the eighteenth century often more obscure than the highly recorded beginnings of early printing . |
| 3 | A home is the treasury of God where purity , beauty and joy are shared , for his purposes , inviolate . |
| 4 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |
| 5 | This is the kind of situation where readers seem to be relegated to the role of invisible eavesdroppers , overhearing a conversation between others . |
| 6 | This is the kind of house where flowers fade overnight . |
| 7 | It is the kind of area where keeping a close eye on the map is almost essential for peace of mind — asking the way could prove difficult , to say the least . |
| 8 | This is the kind of place where grown men dress up in leather shorts and slap each other accompanied by mountain tunes from a schnapps-crazed accordion player . |
| 9 | American football is the sort of sport where you can do yourself a serious injury before the match has started . |
| 10 | That is the sort of climate where unsubstantiated claims flourish , and must be challenged and put into proper perspective by the Chief Constable . |
| 11 | It is the sort of place where you find a different object of interest every time you go back . |
| 12 | In the US , information is material if it is the sort of information where there is a ‘ substantial likelihood that a reasonable shareholder would consider it important ’ in making an investment decision about the company 's stock . |
| 13 | Where is the process of accountability whereby elected people can ask questions such as , ’ What are you doing to stop it ? ’ |
| 14 | NOW is the time of year when tour operators ' thoughts turn to tempting the over-60s — and increasingly the over 55s — to spend their winters in the sun . |
| 15 | This is the time of year when we all rack our brains to think of the perfect Christmas present , so if you are planning to look for something a bit different for the machine knitter in the family , this could be the ideal gift . |
| 16 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |
| 17 | This is the time of year when new members are welcomed onto the Executive Committee and farewell is bid to those who are leaving . |
| 18 | This is the time of year when people die : |
| 19 | The most obvious and tangible eftect of economic TNPs is the creation of jobs when a foreign corporation opens a factory or an office abroad . |
| 20 | The intercept a is the value of Y when X is zero , or where the line starts . |
| 21 | The intercept is the value of Y when X is zero , a pretty meaningless value when X is a mortality rate , as we noted above ; we just treat it as a scaling factor , needed to predict a given Y value from a given X value . |
| 22 | Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries . |
| 23 | ( Another example of this attempt to separate similar words , as a matter of interest , is the number of occasions where identical words are distinguished by doubling letters — of and off , to and too ( but not two , which comes from a different root — twegen ) and more subtle ones like in and inn . |
| 24 | it is a nothing , a zero , a mere point , which , however , dwells in all apparent existences , and at the same time is the point of origin whence , on the slightest stimulus , a double appearance presents itself , an appearance which only manifests itself to vanish . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the kind of sport where you do n't need lots of cash to do well , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Well er I think that getting away the oh you live in Nottingham , oh fancy that you know , you , you know where you 're starting , you know , everyone either works for Boots or used to work for Boots and , you know , you 've got a rough idea , you , you , you do n't need to go into the oh fancy that you know , all that 's arranged so erm I think i i it 's , i i i it 's the middle of September when we either go to Los Angeles , I think we go to Los Angeles , and fool around Hollywood and San Diego and places and down to see a and then away off to erm Las Vegas and Flagstaff you know about this meteor crater in Flagstaff , that apparently is why you go to Flagstaff tt a meteor came , the meteor crater is there tt and then the Grand Canyon and go through national park which San Francisco and erm spend erm two or three days there and then come back again . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the unification of unification where and how they all gather that 's where they all are . |
| 28 | It 's the sort of place where you can hardly sneeze without your neighbour and their neighbours , and the people in the next village , feeling the breeze . |
| 29 | It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes . |
| 30 | It 's the sort of place where you can get everything done , from mastering to stampers to putting your cassettes in the shops . |