Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [unc] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not deny change ; but where Pirenne 's followers saw decomposition , they detect signs of economic activity of a new kind . |
| 2 | Conversely , where employers ' associations remained weak and underdeveloped — as in France up to the inter-war period — collective bargaining played a negligible role in setting the terms and conditions of employment , with the result that legislative provisions assumed relatively greater importance . |
| 3 | The ground was deeply cut up where Dersingham 's cattle had been wont to stray . |
| 4 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |
| 5 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 6 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 7 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 8 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 9 | I was travelling with camels in hot , arid country under testing conditions where , if things went wrong , I could get no help and where men 's lives depended on my judgement . |
| 10 | The head of Andrew 's cock strains in its clinical , plastic vice — there out of necessity and there where Iain 's hands have so often passed over . |
| 11 | This was in marked contrast to the result of the Oct. 3 first round where Collor 's supporters took nine out of the 10 state governorships which had been finalized [ see also p. 37773-74 ; see below for subsequent annulling of Alagoas result ] . |
| 12 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 13 | Although Strach 's performances have been going downhill ( by his standards ) since he injured his back . |
| 14 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 15 | Alcoholic beverages were a fact of life when most drinking-water was a health hazard , so Dorchester 's Puritans killed several birds with one stone by taking over the demon drink themselves , to administer it with moderation and make a healthy profit to be dispensed to the needy . |
| 16 | Although Hector 's dolphins do not feed extensively on commercial fish species , they , too , move into the sheltered waters of the peninsula 's bays to breed during the summer . |
| 17 | Although Mesmer 's crises have little in common with modern hypnosis and his explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited , he did obtain cures that physicians had been unable to achieve ; so scientists and therapists remained mesmerised by the phenomenon . |
| 18 | Although MTM 's shares rallied at the start of last week the publication by UBS Philips & Drew of an in-depth report on the state of the company 's finances started them on a downward slide again . |
| 19 | Such extensive managerial powers had not been built in to any of the LEA pilot schemes of financial delegation in existence before 1988 although schools ' experiences had often entailed a change in managerial approach ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 20 | Second , the pound was not hopelessly overvalued within the ERM , so importers ' margins have less room to adjust than in the past . |
| 21 | According to Tolstoy in The Minister and the Massacres ( pp 103–9 ) , no sooner had the 20–30,000 Croats assembled at Bleiburg laid down their arms ( they also included many civilians ) than Tito 's partisans opened fire from the surrounding woods causing an immense massacre ( " the slaughter was terrible … the whole field was strewn with bodies … how many people were massacred in the Bleiburg fields on 15 and 16 May is unknown " ) . |
| 22 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
| 23 | The figure is £1,000 more than England 's stars pocketed last season . |
| 24 | Certainly our brains occupy a much larger proportion of our body than elephants ' brains do , as is evident from the bulging shape of our skulls . |
| 25 | Nobody laughed , and nobody actually said ‘ Rubbish ’ , although Clovis 's lips moved silently … |
| 26 | Although executives ' roles span all these categories , the evidence highlights the fact that companies too often concentrate on the internal , financially-based operational information to the detriment of strategic and change-management information . |
| 27 | This seems a more satisfactory way of looking at the possibility that a society may be an organic unity than Moore 's principles allow . |
| 28 | But , in fact , the delegation was to be more successful than Manners ' remarks revealed at the time . |
| 29 | Once Sipotai 's scouts saw the small party under Burun 's silver banner , they would forget everything else . |
| 30 | Although Anne 's sympathies lay strongly with the Tories , she too was determined to maintain the political independence of the Crown . |