Example sentences of "where a [noun] [be] [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's draft Directive proposes that laws on the minimum wage and paid holidays in the country where a worker is being contracted out should apply solely to workers whose assignments last for more than three months . |
| 2 | It should not be necessary to compile long programme notes , except perhaps in those cases where a poem is being interpreted ( see page 28 ) . |
| 3 | Similarly , in a court where a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination , or in a meeting where someone hogs the discussion and refuses to listen to an important point which is being made , it may be important that the injunction is resisted . |
| 4 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 5 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 6 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |