Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a putative immunosuppressive effect of L1 might accord with the intestinal distribution seen of the L1 + eosinophils : they are localised mainly in the lamina propria where a downregulating effect on lymphocyte proliferation would be beneficial to dampen immune responses to food antigens , but they are virtually absent beneath the follicle associated epithelium of Peyer 's patches where adequate immunostimulation to potentially pathogenic antigens is desirable . |
| 2 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 3 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 4 | Where a major change to the firm has taken place ( eg the departure of one partner out of only a few or several partners at one time , merger or takeover , or the closure of an entire department ) there is a professional obligation to notify clients as soon as reasonably practicable . |
| 5 | All these behaviours are part of a vicious circle where a maladaptive response to stress produces more stress . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Where a firm deals with or for a customer it must take all reasonable steps to deal on the terms which are the best available for the customer in the circumstances . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tuathal , it seemed , had come north from the Forth estuary , where a new church to St Serf was being raised beside the traditional shrine of St Kentigern . |
| 15 | ( 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 ) . |
| 16 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Isabel hurriedly took Ellen 's advice , retreating to one side of the room , where a rough table near the fireplace served as a bar . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No longer a rock band , where a certain stiffness in the limbs is a virtue , but not yet virtuoso jazzers , The Style Council are stuck at that most useless of levels — semi-fluency . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They will also work in Soviet archives , where a great deal of new statistical data has become available . |
| 29 | There is in any case , it is argued , less incentive for efficient production in a bureau than in a firm operating on a small profit margin where a small reduction in costs means a large increase in profits . |
| 30 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |