Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was bitten lots of times by mosquitoes , once just above my navel , where my shirt buttons were bursting open . |
| 2 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 3 | The stolen cars were taken to garages in the Bronx , where their identification numbers were changed . |
| 4 | For an instant , his gaze had shifted to the bedside cabinet , where their whisky glasses stood beneath the lamp . |
| 5 | Given the increasing difficulty which the local authorities are experiencing in offering financial help to their institutions , especially to those polytechnics in urban areas where their parent authorities are under greater pressure from the Department of the Environment to keep rate increases down , it may not be possible for the public sector institutions , try as they may , to keep up their student numbers . |
| 6 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 7 | They operate within the confines of the planning policies administered by the Welsh local planning authorities , and , where their planning applications are refused they have the usual right of appeal to the Secretary of State for Wales . |
| 8 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 9 | In the case of single or dominant firm monopolies while it is accepted that these may behave detrimentally to the public interest at large , few democratic governments have had , or are likely to have , the political will to intervene directly in their operation , particularly where their market positions have been legitimately attained , and their activities are not overtly illegal . |
| 10 | Gone were the woods and broken country where their infiltration methods could excel . |
| 11 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 12 | where its spread fingers sink |
| 13 | The company 's strategies in the mid-range — where its RISC machines and AS/400s show great potential for growth and profitability — are said to have been constrained by concerns over self-impact . |
| 14 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 15 | I limit my inquiry further by not considering the situation in which the doctor exceeds the norm of accepted treatment — for example , where his treatment borders on experimentation , where other considerations apply . |
| 16 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 17 | He went first to the small wash-room near the back door where his wellington boots , the thick red socks protruding like a pair of amputated feet , stood ready at the door . |
| 18 | Blind Io had got his name because , where his eye sockets should have been , there were nothing but two areas of blank skin . |
| 19 | Even as he closed the door behind him , the thallium was on its way down through Donald 's oesophagus , slithering towards his stomach and digestive tract , where his body chemicals would turn it into a disease Donald would have difficulty in recognizing . |
| 20 | Generally you have two choices : where your debtor lives or carries on his business , or where the debt was incurred . |
| 21 | There was an Argentine sailing ship in the river and the sailors came ashore , and then made their way to a dance-hall in Great George Street , where our Liverpool lads were foxtrotting and waltzing . |
| 22 | ( ’ I do all my own servicing , so my garage bills are nowhere near £300 . ’ ) |
| 23 | The feet of Stewpid are right behind me now , pounding louder than my heart beats . |
| 24 | Yes , I do still keep a diary , though it now shows my hospital , doctor 's and dentist 's appointments rather than my business meetings or my target dates and such . |
| 25 | Although my fruit cakes are nice and moist , they crumble easily and are difficult to cut . |
| 26 | Her style is that of the illuminators in the Ghent–Bruges tradition , although her portrait miniatures show the influence of Lucas Hornebolt [ q.v. ] , her predecessor , and , in terms of composition , Hans Eworth [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Clint has discovered the porn channel on the hotel TV ‘ but they were n't really doing it 'cause her arse muscles were n't clenched . ’ |
| 28 | There are women who live with their husbands and they hate their husbands and do it once a month so their Amex cards do n't get cancelled . |
| 29 | Most of the Bangladeshi men worked in restaurants , so their working hours were more variable . |
| 30 | The thecodonts started off small , so their surface areas were large in comparison with their volume ; they could have felt the cold more , and a heat-transmitting skin was a liability . |