Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] where the " in BNC.

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1 A survey to gain a clear picture of where the dumping occurs is to be carried out by the North Sea Conference .
2 European political leaders need to give a clear explanation of where the Community stands — a requirement which the MacSharry proposals simply do not meet .
3 They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight .
4 Fast free kicks are ok ( as along as the ball is stopped I think ) what was very illegal was the fact that the free kick was taken from a COMPLETELY different spot to where the foul took place , so the Leeds player were ( justifiably ) waiting for the ball to be placed where it should have been .
5 It is in this area that the majority of people expect the chief executive to have a personal vision of where the company should be going .
6 The suddenness of the spit makes the attacker jump smartly backwards and the hiss that follows alarms it even more ; it retreats carefully , watching the dark corner from where the noise is originating .
7 The characteristics of the waggle dance performed in the hive provide the crucial information about where the returning bee successfully foraged .
8 But Posi promised to lower me slowly , to raise minimal dist from where the beam hit the ground .
9 If we anticipate reversing the fact that much of our population holidays abroad , so that instead we have more people from overseas holidaying with us , a straightforward reversal of where the money is spent would beneficially affect the foreign exchange by £1,600 million .
10 To conclude colleagues , the Maastricht Treaty the dynamic evolution of the European community from where the single act in nineteen eighty six left off .
11 Let's have a quick look at where the numbers came from .
12 What happens if we get one of the national agencies who 's located in the opposite part to where the majority of the erm the business from the multi-location commercial account is ?
13 An obvious example of where the accounts could provide information about erosion of capital , but in the case of cash accounts do not , is for the sale of capital assets .
14 It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres .
15 Erm so I presume that was the opposite end to where the tow bar would be
16 The issues here are complicated and I only have space to give a rough indication of where the difficulties lie .
17 Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective .
18 Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff .
19 Archaeology , in the sense of deciding where to excavate , is perhaps a good example of where the psychic ability may often be used unconsciously .
20 A good example of where the level of aggregation adopted by the budgetary accounts affects their comparability occurs in local government .
21 If they had , they would have had to provide an alternative explanation of where the surface energy of a newly broken surface came from , but somehow nobody took it very seriously .
22 And to give a rough idea of where the group makes its money , she cited breakdown of turnover by geographic area .
23 Both chairs are placed securely , with the free chair at a slight angle to where the patient is sitting .
24 TEAM Components Bureau have the chance tonight to remove any reasonable doubt about where the Royal Bank Scottish Women 's league title will end up .
25 It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier .
26 Always sit near the door , try to sit near the driver , guard or conductor , and make a mental note of where the emergency alarm is .
27 These indices have been used to produce 113 maps for England and Wales at a scale of 1:63,360 and although the five grades shown on the maps provide a broad pattern of where the best ( grade 1 ) and worst ( grade 5 ) land is , the maps have , however , been roundly criticized .
28 Six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , slim and athletic , his right-handed batting was less ferocious than that of Walcott and Weekes , relying on superb timing and balance , lightning footwork and an uncanny judgement of where the ball was going to pitch .
29 Ted 's assistant throughout the work on this engine was Jim Mitchell , a Kentishman now living in Southery , Norfolk , within a short distance of where the engine had been recovered .
30 I conclude this section with an exegetical example of where the parallelism of greater precision is a " false friend " and potentially misleading .
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