Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun] are [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where building materials are more strictly controlled . |
| 2 | The Regulations apply only where computer screens are habitually used by one or more employees as a significant part of daily work . |
| 3 | It is a region where handweavers still exist , where the women preserve their own style of embroidery , and where milk churns are still decorated by craftsmen . |
| 4 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 5 | Cuts in Network South East grants will increase the Government 's pre-election risk of alienating Conservative voters in the South-east commuter belt where rail travellers are already unhappy over rail services . |
| 6 | Lucky said that computer links have started a trend toward using ‘ offshore word processing ’ based in the Caribbean , where labour costs are less . |
| 7 | Strangely , it is not only high tax rates that encourage avoidance , for it often occurs where tax rates are as low as 14% . |
| 8 | Where spray bottles are more widely used and there is a risk of confusion colour coding is desirable and such a provision would take precedence over our control needs . |
| 9 | According to circumstances , the building inspector may be prepared to rate an unprotected cast-iron structure as one hour fire-resisting and where iron beams are partly embedded in brickwork or concrete ( eg , in jack-arch and filler-joist floors ) a greatly enhanced fire-resisting performance results from this partial protection . |
| 10 | In the private service sector , where trade unions are less active , temporary workers often do not receive the same level of fringe benefits as permanent workers ; and in some organisations and industries they are paid at a lower rate — for example the statutory minimum rather than a higher , collectively bargained rate — than are comparable permanent workers [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 11 | Does he also agree that the increase this year is extremely valuable and that steps should be taken towards improving houses in rural districts , where improvement grants are particularly valuable and welcome ? |
| 12 | Where bank affairs are closely tied to the fortunes of their leading customers through shared group affiliation , the lending bank and the borrowing company are bound to the same fate which makes unilateral changes in loan terms much less likely . |
| 13 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 14 | By contrast , where food resources are relatively constant the population will be close to the carrying capacity of the environment and successful reproduction will only balance mortality . |
| 15 | This recognition of the " blurred roles " of teachers and librarians , and of the importance of providing opportunities for those who wish to gain an understanding of and professional accreditation in both professions , has long been the case at school level in the USA , where school librarians are generally required to have a proportion of undergraduate and graduate credits in both disciplines ( the regulations vary from state to state ) , and the education system has long been flexible enough to meet the need without the provision of special courses ( though this has its disadvantage in that some students may therefore miss the opportunity to make direct cross-disciplinary comparisons under academic supervision ) . |
| 16 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
| 17 | So too has Mexico , where maquiladora enterprises are now permitted to sell up to 20 per cent locally under some conditions . |
| 18 | That of Clark draws attention to the phenomenon of speech repair in two-year-olds , where speech errors are spontaneously corrected , indicating that children must have awareness of language at some level virtually as soon as they begin to talk . |
| 19 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 20 | Although Building Regulations are mainly concerned with the construction of houses — and proposed changes in construction — there are ways in which they affect the home plumber , too . |
| 21 | In Italy , also , although industry agreements are still important , there has been a marked growth since the 1960s of decentralised bargaining at plant and company level , in contrast to the previously highly centralised system . |
| 22 | Locally , I 've got Brackley down , Brackley Town pencilled in down here , now they 're playing Earthling Borough Diamonds in the United Counties Premier League ; now Earthling Borough Diamonds , they 've yet to win a match and with a name like that they do n't deserve to , I 'm just glad they 're not on my patch , although Elmensbury Pixons are apparently . |
| 23 | The former may be supported by testing although test results are essentially evidence to enable the individual to clarify his own self concept . |
| 24 | Although rucksack fabrics are supposedly waterproof , always use a rucksack liner , plus polythene bags round individual items , to ensure your kit is kept dry . |
| 25 | Although morpheme combinations are syntactically valid they may be semantically invalid . |
| 26 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 27 | Note that in this case all lines coincide , and so Q branches are often line-like features close to the vibration transition energy ν vjb or ν . |
| 28 | Although chain hotels are often constrained by bulk purchasing agreements and central decision making , it should not be beyond the imagination of those involved to make each property memorable through small design details such as prints or lighting . |
| 29 | Although AlphaWindows terminals are primarily suited for Unix — Santa Cruz Operation Inc is supporting the specifications under its SCO Unix — they will run on any operating system which can do multiplexing . |
| 30 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |