Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem , which , where conflicts of interest are involved , becomes one of ideology , need not lead to overt conflict , however , because the groups concerned may be quite unaware of the discrepancy . |
| 2 | Where conflicts of interest arise ( should minerals exploration be permitted in a caribou reserve ? see Sheldon , 1988 ) there are precedents and procedures for resolving them . |
| 3 | where norms of co-operation and high output are established because of a feeling of importance , physical conditions may have little impact . |
| 4 | The first , inadequately expressed as ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht treaty , is that the Community should expect to exercise power only where flows of things or people across frontiers make such power truly necessary . |
| 5 | Nick and I got up and went outside , where groups of friends were gathered . |
| 6 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 7 | More figurative work in both paintings and drawings old and new shows up at Forum all this month and next where canvases by Gregory Gillespie and Alan Feltus co-mingle with those of George Grosz , Oscar Bluemner , Edward Hopper and John Graham . |
| 8 | OLEG SALDYKOV claims to have succeeded where generations of alchemists had failed . |
| 9 | In the centre of the room was a deal table with a top that was scrubbed daily , it had a large cutlery drawer and one of the four turned legs was well worn where generations of cats had sharpened their claws . |
| 10 | The effect as a whole is like that of A Midsummer Night 's Dream , where pairs of lovers wander in another enchanted wood , their paths crossed and tangled by puck , Oberon , Titania and the infatuating Bully Bottom . |
| 11 | In the second pattern , where pairs in amplexus are matched for size , the males may be better able to resist displacement by other males . |
| 12 | Mimicking a hawk could also be useful in Africa , the European cuckoo 's wintering ground , where birds of prey are numerous . |
| 13 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 14 | There is direct evidence of owls in some of the French caves , where pictures of owls are included among the other animal drawings . |
| 15 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 16 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 17 | Learning through Writing in the Primary School Classroom Mr. Stephen Rowland , Lecturer in Primary Education , has studied aspects of children writing within the context of participatory observation in the primary classroom , where roles of teacher and researcher are integrated . |
| 18 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 19 | This feature is especially well-developed in Cichlids , where combinations of colour and pattern signify fear , confidence , territoriality , willingness ( or otherwise ) to mate , and other ‘ emotional states ’ . |
| 20 | Alice Edelson is reputed to have played the harp sitting in the bay , where books of harp music were actually found by the Carters . |
| 21 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 22 | The main focus of the new line will be at Lille , some 100km from the Tunnel , where branches from Paris , Brussels and the Tunnel will converge on a new station in the heart of the city . |
| 23 | In the great house , where relationships with servants are mentioned — Lady Dedlock and Rosa , Mrs Transome and Fenner in Felix Holt are examples — they signify a perilous moral isolation . |
| 24 | Three examples are the university of the third age , the south London refugee project , and the Croydon action group for the unemployed , where aspects of specialist work are undertaken , with the support of the adult service . |
| 25 | as part of a manufacturing or processing complex , where units of materials are stored to service the industrial or manufacturing process . |
| 26 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 27 | Most of the damage was again done in the financial sector , where worries about scandals and the recession abound . |
| 28 | Women in developing countries typically have their first child when they are very young and , except where circumstances of custom proscribe it or where family planning is not widely practised , continue childbearing until they are nearing the end of the reproductive years . |
| 29 | Across the Pennines , in Derbyshire , the immense walled kitchen garden at Calke Abbey , where visitors to Calke could once sit in the now-ruined orangery that presides over it and admire the order and industry , is just an area of pasture . |
| 30 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |