Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention . |
| 32 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’ |
| 33 | His glance towards the file told them precisely where that letter was and McLeish asked for it promptly . |
| 34 | For example , it is essential to know exactly where each find was unearthed in order to assess whether the date of the finds can help to date the deposits in which they were found . |
| 35 | For this reason , it is most important to know exactly where each find was discovered . |
| 36 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 37 | We take care in stating exactly where each division is taking place . |
| 38 | We have an example of the latter in its crudest form in the Cemrel Project already referred to on page 102 , where each child is required to display a variety of emotions as part of a test . |
| 39 | Forgetfulness proves deadly because it strikes deep into the delicate area where conscience registers sin and where each person is most attuned to the nuances of relationship . |
| 40 | Now work out where each character is in the stairwell . |
| 41 | Since the optics of the microscope are arranged for white light , where each wavelength is brought to a slightly different focus , optimum resolution in monochrome photographs is obtained by employing a medium density green filter ( selecting a wavelength in the middle of the range ) . |
| 42 | For a monochrome monitor , where each pixel is either ON or OFF , each bit will control one pixel . |
| 43 | Within the generative paradigm the following definitions hold : A language is a set of sentences , where each sentence is a string of one or more symbols ( words ) from the vocabulary of the language . |
| 44 | This is particularly true where each parish was formerly a cohesive unit , but later amalgamations resulted in the ‘ stalk ’ of one on the side of another . |
| 45 | A process known as ‘ cycling ’ — where each number is in turn brought into the first position in the combined number can be employed in order to generate headings for added entries . |
| 46 | Where drains are connected to the public sewer , they can either be single , where each house has its own connection , or communal , where each house is joined to one big pipe which goes to the sewer . |
| 47 | The more expensive type of interior-sprung mattress has pocketed springs , where each spring is enclosed in a calico pocket . |
| 48 | Major vegetation types are described , as are the nature reserves , and the place is given where each photo was taken . |
| 49 | Observing day after day , one saw that the library was also a place for pastoral support , a place for equal opportunities where each student was valued and encouraged . |
| 50 | A centre could devise eg. a ‘ student centred ’ assessment system where each learner is responsible for collecting evidence of his/her achievement and judging his/her own performance against the criteria . |
| 51 | Unit stock control ( where each item is individually counted ) is a method used by retailers to calculate how much stock they have on the premises , including the warehouse or store-room . |
| 52 | It will also become the focus of political lobbying by health authorities who stand to gain by this or that factor being included . |
| 53 | Similarly , we may find that arms and faces are raised , or that kneeling is an appropriate response in the congregation . |
| 54 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 55 | Acknowledge in your wording — " possibly " , " maybe " , " one explanation … " — that there is room for other points of view or that evidence is insufficient to admit of confident verdicts . |
| 56 | Yet at the same time this doctrine leads to the altogether counterintuitive conclusion that there can be no such thing as style or that style is simply a part of content . |
| 57 | If you want a nuclear-free world , do you believe that the world 's political leaders are crazy warmongers , or that humanity is out to destroy itself , or that the world is a dangerous and evil place ? |
| 58 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 59 | This means either that air has got into the system or that corrosion is causing hydrogen gas to collect . |
| 60 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |