Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then gave a resumé of the practical contents ; directions for the kitchen garden , with vegetables through the seasons ; the fruit garden , where some erroneous methods of pruning were corrected ; the flower garden , where both exotic and domestic blooms might be raised and , finally , the wilderness , where the correct choice of shrubs and trees and particularly their size and shape was all-important . |
| 2 | We left , plugging along a red and arid coast for Kas , where the usual deputation of dolphins bounded out to greet us . |
| 3 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 4 | Life is where girls are murdered ‘ with a gallon of lysol in a bath , , and where the tedious business of words only elicits the answer that there is no point to speech . |
| 5 | The rationale of the accounting reform is to use accrual accounting to provide a more complete picture of the management of public resources , particularly where the financial implications of actions extend beyond a year . |
| 6 | I remember seen a programme where the underwater shots of hippopotami showed numerous fish feeding on their leftovers . |
| 7 | Psychological criteria are thus given no weight , despite the fact that the medical evidence is that where the two sets of criteria clash , the only effective treatment is to try to reconcile the clash in favour of the psychological . |
| 8 | There are no reasons why all groups ca n't mix , except where the sheer numbers of users are dangerous . |
| 9 | ISDN services outside the UK are available in Australia , Belgium , France , Germany , Japan , Holland , Sweden , Switzerland , and the US , where the largest number of connections are in place . |
| 10 | The struggle for national independence was thus a peculiar context where the normal sets of interests and classes appeared not to bind the leaders : the skilful adventurer could almost create his or her own outcome . |
| 11 | In many cases the school was also the church , where the small groups of Christians , almost entirely Karen in race , gathered for Sunday worship and for Holy Communion when I was able to turn up , or occasionally one of my four Karen ‘ curates ’ . |
| 12 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 13 | This marks a strong contrast with other countries such as Denmark , France , the Netherlands and the United States , where the great majority of workers now have their salaries paid direct into bank accounts , usually monthly ( fortnightly in Denmark ) . |
| 14 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 15 | He quotes an example from a dunefield in southern Peru where the average width of barchans is 37 m and their height about one tenth of this , this being a width height ratio commonly found in barchans . |
| 16 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 17 | In British India , however , where the collective prejudices of doctors were less effective , Dr James Esdaile made widespread use of the mesmeric trance to relieve suffering . |
| 18 | Where the joint appeal of Liberals and Labour had bitten more deeply into the Unionist vote there was no visible recovery of ground ; so in 1914 there were no Unionist MPs at all from Leeds or Bradford , Leicester or Derby or Stoke , Newcastle upon Tyne , Sunderland , Southampton , Stockport , Bolton , Blackburn or Northampton . |
| 19 | For example , the two charges may be of some atomic distance ( of the order of 10 -10 m ) apart , whereas we are interested in their effect at macroscopic distances ; or take the so-called dipole aerial where the assumed separation of charges is small in comparison with the wavelength of oscillation . |
| 20 | Others lend themselves to group discussion where the moral support of peers encourages individuals to put forward their views in the presence of management . |
| 21 | A general waiver has been granted by the Council to permit the establishment of staff bonus schemes which make payments to employees calculated by reference to the gross fee income or net profits of the firm ; which are open to all employees subject only to a short ( maximum three years ) qualifying period ; where the basis of distribution ( length of service , proportionate to salary etc ) is disclosed to the staff , but where the actual level of profits or income need not be so disclosed ; and where no distribution is permitted which is related to the introduction of business . |
| 22 | The long-term price of the product is that where the differing interests of producers and customers converge . |
| 23 | The publication of the results allowed tribute to be paid to the local authorities whose results were good and where the hard work of teachers was showing results . |
| 24 | Particularly where the horizontal flow of parts must be good , upper parts can be written first , using serialism . |
| 25 | However there are much more data on incest in western societies , where the sexual abuse of children is becoming recognised as a social problem . |
| 26 | It has been suggested above that where the true owner of goods can not be involved in the proceedings the common law rule that a mere possessory interest entitles the plaintiff to recover the full value of the goods against a wrongdoer still applies . |
| 27 | THERE HAVE also been changes at the south end of the Kylesku Bridge , where the little cluster of buildings where vehicles formerly embarked on the ferry boat is now bypassed by the new road . |
| 28 | Environmental pressures , particularly in northern Europe where the intensive use of agro-chemicals has boosted production , will also further constrain farmers . |
| 29 | Moreover , Britain lags far behind developments in the USA , where older persons ' organisations like the Gray Panthers are dominated by women , and where the shared interests between women and older people are recognised more commonly . |
| 30 | Except the little bundle of Papers folded together under his pillow . |