Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | CD reintroduces Pickwick , not very happily , in Master Humphrey 's Clock , where he is represented as joining Master Humphrey 's circle and supplying the story of Will Marks . |
| 32 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 33 | Loudspeakers lead the visitor from one counter to another , where he is deluged in official documents , forms and certificates to fill in . |
| 34 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 35 | On January 1st the rebels of the United Somali Congress claimed to have driven President Siad Barre into a bunker in the military airport , where he is defended by his favourite tanks . |
| 36 | Where he is addressing the converted , so to speak , he can say that his intention may have been to reinforce or confirm views already held rather than to stir up hatred . |
| 37 | But he must work on his kicking in general , especially where he is trying to find touch . |
| 38 | The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ? |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 41 | It can be detected out on the fairways , where he is acknowledged as being among cricket 's best golfers . |
| 42 | There is only a remark in Plutarch 's Alcibiades , where he is recounting the story of the double-crossing of the Spartan ambassadors ( p. 117 ) : Alcibiades ( xiv.8 ) urges the Spartans to go before the Council because it is more ‘ moderate and kindly ’ than the People , that is the Assembly . |
| 43 | His work can be seen regularly at the Chris Beetles Gallery , where he is having a solo exhibition from March 31-April 16 |
| 44 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 45 | Kapuscinski is soon in a still hairier place , further south , where he is told of the South African intervention . |
| 46 | The return to my house is strained by the thought that he still has not the faintest idea where he is going . |
| 47 | He knows precisely where he is going now and is fit and eager for the challenge . |
| 48 | Planning each outing is good training for the patient : if he has difficulties with programming , you might go over the plan with him each time before he goes out , and ask him to say out loud exactly where he is going and how he is going to get there . |
| 49 | ‘ In John Major you have a pilot at the helm who knows where he comes from and where he is going . ’ |
| 50 | To drive a London black cab , you have to pass stringent geographical and driving tests , so you can be sure that any London cabbie knows what he is doing and where he is going . |
| 51 | I would need about a quarter of the boxes , but I ca n't be sure where he is going to land . |
| 52 | J E Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) can stop wondering who ‘ the man on the tricycle is and where he is going ’ , as I am that man . |
| 53 | The first of these is when the teacher is asked to do a manageable job , where he is working within his intellectual capacity and has that confidence which proceeds from really knowing more about what he is teaching than the children do . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Its production has become associated with Italy , and in particular the Florence area , where it is represented in the heraldic arms of that city . |
| 56 | The means of promoting consensus on the curriculum proved to be The National Curriculum 5–16 : a consultation document ( hereafter TNC ) , where it is argued that the national curriculum will help to raise standards by ensuring that all pupils follow a broad and balanced curriculum throughout the compulsory period ; by setting clear objectives of what pupils should be expected to achieve ; by ensuring that all pupils , irrespective of their sex , ethnic origins or geographical location have access to the same curriculum offer ; and by checking on performance and progress at various stages . |
| 57 | In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology . |
| 58 | That this order was sometimes carried out is now confirmed in The Secret Hunters by Anthony Kemp ( 1986 ) , where it is revealed that on Operation Loyton , to quote one example , captured S.A.S. soldiers were shot in the locality of Moussey , between Luneville and Strasbourg . |
| 59 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 60 | On the basis of 1 Chronicles 21 , where it is recorded that David incurred divine displeasure because he ordered a national census , some Christian leaders refuse to gather statistics of their membership . |