Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] is [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the response of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in a Yorkshire infant school where she is asked to say how two pictures are different from each other . |
| 2 | And a wife has no other relationship where she is told to submit in everything as the church submits to Christ . |
| 3 | Where something is seen to change ? |
| 4 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 5 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 6 | These may be very useful where it is hoped to build in cross-curricular links . |
| 7 | Where it is hoped to offer the target 's shareholders " roll-over " or " hold-over " relief on a securities exchange , the bidder will usually find it desirable to obtain advance clearance from the Inland Revenue ( see para 23.2.1.4 below ) . |
| 8 | The herati design ( pls 22 , 23 ) derives its name from the town of Herat ( part of Persia until the last century , but now in Afghanistan ) , where it is said to have originated . |
| 9 | Some types of indexing are appropriate where it is desired to concentrate on generating excellent indexes . |
| 10 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 11 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 12 | Where it is desired to make an offer to settle a claim other than one for a sum of money by making a written offer " without prejudice save as to costs " , the offer should be filed with the court ; it is not brought to the attention of the court until the question of costs falls to be decided : Ord 11 , r 10 . |
| 13 | It is also to be found in most other industries , where it is employed to produce prototype models , spare parts , modifications to existing plant and countless other ‘ one-off ’ , tailor-made pieces . |
| 14 | Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme . |
| 15 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
| 16 | Where it is proposed to approach a potential purchaser which is a KPMG client the relevant client service partner should be informed in advance and he should agree the means by which the approach is to be made . |
| 17 | For expositional reasons , we shall need to use the word utterance in various ways in this book , but where it is used to contrast with sentence it should be taken in the sense advocated by Bar-Hillel , as a sentence ( or sometimes string of sentences ) paired with a context . |
| 18 | This would be to outlaw general references to age in all current and future legislation where it is used to imply frailty or the need for services . |
| 19 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 20 | A safer course ( assuming that the business wishes to exclude liability where it is permitted to do so — ie in non-consumer cases ) is to have one set of terms , including the appropriate exclusion clauses , but to include a provision that the forbidden exclusions do not apply in a case where the buyer deals as a consumer . |
| 21 | But before it can become law , the bill needs to be approved by the Senate , where it is expected to become the target of pro-hunting amendments . |
| 22 | At around $18,265 ( approx £10,000 ) the Spirit 's 0–60mph time of 6.8secs and top speed of 143mph make it ‘ one of the world 's fastest production sedans ’ according to Chrysler , and exceptional value in the US , where it is expected to compete against Ford 's $22,000 ( £12,000 ) Taurus SHO . |
| 23 | Now their 2,000-strong collection has been sent to Christie 's , where it is expected to make hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 24 | Here it will be fed into computer models where it is expected to provide far more accurate predictions of the effects of deforestation . |
| 25 | The Lost Leader , of course , had not the remotest interest in sport , although she is said to look back wistfully to those distant Lincolnshire days when she would clasp the hand of Alderman Roberts as together they watched the bear-baiting . |
| 26 | ‘ Buki 's career took off when she played the detective in South Of The Border , so she is determined to continue her career . |
| 27 | To top it all her mother disowns her , so she is left to wander the streets , when she meets Matthews ( Martin Donovan ) , who has also been driven from his home . |
| 28 | Much of it is n't recorded in great detail , so one is left to read between the lines about the activities that were involved . |
| 29 | I do n't recall ever seeing a big beardy climber lying down in the heather having a tantrum , or a party of Outward Bound students holding their heads and crying into their gaiters , so one is forced to conclude that I am alone in my hill hysteria . |
| 30 | The truth is perhaps that Lévi-Strauss 's conception of structure has no greater intrinsic value than Radcliffe-Brown 's — although it is made to carry a vastly more elaborate analytical superstructure . |