Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 2 | ‘ Nico 's Dream ’ is a fine example of this , where a sampled fragment of the late ice queen 's vocal is caught in a metal mesh of shifting sound that , for a fleeting moment , brings her spirit back from the dead . |
| 3 | At first the hotel was encumbered with the inevitable stone bankers but soon the ground was laid out with a delightful garden ‘ where a respectable band of musicians , formed in this place , meet every Tuesday and Friday evening ’ . |
| 4 | I mention these matters not in order to indicate any disagreement with Knox J. 's conclusions on discretion but because the indemnity provisions in section 83 seem to me to underline that the legislature did not contemplate the power of rectification being exercisable under section 82 except in cases either where an error or omission had occurred in the register , i.e. paragraphs ( d ) to ( h ) , or where a substantive cause of action against the registered proprietor required the register to be rectified , i.e. paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) . |
| 5 | Even in the USA , where a radical process of resettlement got underway at an early stage , most reported episodes of mental illness are still treated at these institutions . |
| 6 | Friendly service provides a warm welcome at the front desk and continues in the air-conditioned dining-room , where a good standard of meals includes a buffet breakfast and choice at lunch and dinner . |
| 7 | Such was Prussia , where a new system of recruiting , based on the allocation to each regiment of a defined area , a canton , upon which it could draw for its manpower , was introduced in the 1730s . |
| 8 | Where a new member of the department is appointed time should be taken to induct this person into the overall role of history within the school and its curriculum mission . |
| 9 | ( a ) Supervision Where a new office of a firm is opened , save as a separate department in close proximity to the main office , arrangements will need to be made to ensure compliance with r13 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 relating to the supervision of the office ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 10 | The errors were either semantic , where a similar part of speech had been inserted ; or grammatical , where the wrong verb tense was used ; or vocabulary , where a nonsense word had been inserted . |
| 11 | CMV is the simplest form of positive pressure ventilation , where a fixed number of breaths ( frequency ) of a specified size ( tidal volume ) are delivered to give a total volume of gas per minute ( minute volume ) . |
| 12 | The most common method of representing the exponent is the excess-value or biased representation , where a fixed value of 2k-1 ( where the exponent field has k bits ) is added to the exponent . |
| 13 | A distinction is made between sales negotiations , where a certain amount of bargaining may take place , and pure selling , where the salesman is given no freedom to bargain . |
| 14 | Here was a circumstance where a great number of foreigners , who would be unable to speak the local language , whose customs would be regarded with suspicion , and whose mariner of worship differed significantly , were suddenly thrust upon a remote community . |
| 15 | Much the same situation , although both a more productive and prolonged one , obtains in temperate woodland , where a great table of riches is spread every summer , declining to a low level of diminishing resources in the autumn . |
| 16 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 17 | This is easily the most important leg of the course , where a great deal of place changing can go on due to the huge differences in speed among sailors . |
| 18 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |
| 19 | They will also work in Soviet archives , where a great deal of new statistical data has become available . |
| 20 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 21 | This does not , however , mean that high quality results can be achieved only by such methods : where a small volume of sections is involved , many of the techniques described in this chapter can easily be adapted for manual preparation of thin sections . |
| 22 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 23 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 24 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 25 | All such knowledge must be of value in nursing , where a wide range of people from a broad range of cultures are cared for daily in a variety of contexts both at home and in the hospital setting . |
| 26 | In the present volume , where a wide range of topics in children 's development is considered , the influence of Margaret Donaldson will be apparent . |
| 27 | Authors are worried that Britain is moving in the same direction as America , where a wide range of groups have mounted campaigns to ban books from schools and libraries because they do n't conform to their particular view of society . |
| 28 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 29 | Indeed , for some purposes its cheapness and speed make quota sampling a procedure which could be more extensively used in some academic research where a general indication of the attitudes extant in a specified population is required . |
| 30 | matrix structures are sometimes more costly eg. if product management positions are additional jobs , where a simple structure of functional departmentation would suffice ; and |