Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to achieve this , teams have to work towards the situation where the knowledge and skills of all members are fully utilised . |
| 2 | A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) , |
| 3 | Several hundred mourners had to stand in the grounds where the service , conducted by the judge 's brother , Monsignor Laurence Higgins , was relayed outside by loudspeakers . |
| 4 | City , whose power struggle has dominated the season 's headlines , continued to struggle on the pitch where they conceded two goals in the first 22 minutes and have now gone nine Premiership games without a win . |
| 5 | ‘ The theatre would go out of them and there 'd be no leap of faith required to come to the shore where they sit . ’ |
| 6 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 7 | But there is only injustice when preventable suffering is allowed to persist to the point where a person would rather be dead . |
| 8 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 9 | What makes it more enjoyable Like my father years ago , Is to stand by the river where Oxford and Cambridge yearly row . |
| 10 | She stepped into the room and went to stand by the armchair where he had so carelessly thrown his coat . |
| 11 | Opposition leaders made speeches during the gathering in the southern city of Kaohsiung , and some planned to walk along the route where the disturbances occurred . |
| 12 | When she said , ‘ What about bed , now ? ’ they were more than glad to escape from the kitchen where the Very Important Councillor Evans might appear any minute . |
| 13 | Competition between consumers for a given commodity may , for example , tend to force its price upward ; each consumer is careful not to consume beyond the point where the marginal purchase is just worthwhile ; during the process , those who are less eager consumers of marginal units drop out of the race earlier . |
| 14 | This enables a liquidator or administrator to apply to the court where , within two years before insolvency , the vendor has given preferential treatment to creditors . |
| 15 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 16 | McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office . |
| 17 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 18 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 19 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 20 | Shanti 's mother loved her very dearly , and had tried for nearly two years to cope with the situation where she , as an Indian , had a baby with an African father . |
| 21 | Ignoring his advice that she stay still , stay still , she started to stumble towards the place where her assassin had fallen . |
| 22 | Trespass was obviously unsuitable to deal with the case where the owner had voluntarily put his goods into another 's possession and the other refused to re-deliver them , but this situation was covered by the remedy of detinue . |
| 23 | Section 20(2) goes on to deal with the position where price information is correct when given but becomes false afterwards . |
| 24 | These are designed to deal with the situations where , under the TALISMAN system , a certificate is not issued to a particular type of transferee , or the company is entitled to and does refuse to register a transfer . |
| 25 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 26 | And there is still plenty to do in the garden where she is planting vegetables and some more varieties of fruit trees . |
| 27 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |
| 28 | Those words I would like to put on the record where on an earlier sheet that somehow or other have disappeared from the current Order Paper . |
| 29 | In truth , there were those in the American camp who admitted that they had to bow to the Europeans where the Solheim Cup uniforms were concerned . |
| 30 | Because I , I want to sit in the room where they 're both gon na be facing not sitting like an odd dog right . |