Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I think there is a need to plan for a location where this new settlement is going to be successful , recognizing that failure to attract appropriate er private sector interest will mean poor quality design and social provision which will obviously detract from the new settlement as a place to live and also undermine its role in terms of the Greater York area . |
| 2 | I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old . |
| 3 | I find it difficult to conceive of a situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make an order positively requiring a doctor to adopt a particular course of treatment in relation to a child , unless the doctor himself or herself were asking the court to make such an order . |
| 4 | We have got to work towards a situation where burning is no longer the routine disposal method for getting rid of surplus straw . ’ |
| 5 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ In a way it would be interesting to work in a country where you could n't speak the language so you could communicate with your eye and your camera , not your tongue . |
| 7 | The Taipei job was only unusual in that it would be a new experience to work in a country where English was not the official language , but the presence of a large population of Westerners , the bulk of them American , ensured high listenership figures even with the competition provided by the existence of other English-language stations . |
| 8 | I am fortunate to work in a school where all the children are seen as people with questions to ask , ideas to share and problems to solve . |
| 9 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |
| 10 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 11 | There are a number of routes you could take if you want to work in a job where you 'll be looking after the countryside . |
| 12 | Leo would be coming back to New York now to work in a hospital where he could specialize in tropical medicine . |
| 13 | It would be awful to work in a place where everyone was miserable . |
| 14 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 15 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 16 | And there 's no quicker way to make money than drugs , particularly if you happen to come from a country where the stuff is sold like artichokes . |
| 17 | Dedicated time for training , education , and study will be difficult to find in an environment where consultants feel they are being subjected to increasing pressure and juniors ' hours are being reduced but the clinical workload is increasing . |
| 18 | Such pupils are likely to flourish in a class where the ambience is not competitive , pupils ' achievements are not ranked against each other , and individual progress and achievement are encouraged in their own right . |
| 19 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
| 20 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |
| 21 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 22 | Lady Selvedge and Mrs Grandison arrived at Victoria Station on the day of the bazaar shortly after noon , and proceeded to look for a place where they might have lunch , or luncheon , as they called it . |
| 23 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 24 | I 've yet to hear of a report where somebody 's empti Is that Have you heard of anywhere ? |
| 25 | As always , it is the poor who pay the price of conflict — and there can be no end to conflict in a world where the ‘ have-nots ’ outnumber the ‘ haves ’ by four to one . |
| 26 | By every indication , Louis Gerstner is poised to win in a battlefield where IBM has lost considerable ground of late : the corporate boardroom . |
| 27 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 28 | ‘ How long does it take a conifer to grow to a size where it can be used ? ’ she asked hastily , since her last remark had threatened to take the discussion off course . |
| 29 | Obviously with a computer background , I wanted to go into a business where you had large volumes . |
| 30 | I would n't use a bulletproof , well in certain circumstances I might , but I 'm not trained to carry a firearm so I would n't use a I , hopefully , I wo n't get selected to go into a house where I need to wear a bulletproof uniform . |