Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Big City brokers turn their backs on small investors : Martin Baker reports on where private investors can go for advice and dealing services as shares falter |
| 32 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 33 | Now it seems we are back to normal , with catchy weather frustrating attempts to get on where crops are fit , and further kicking of heels in prospect once the winter barleys have been cleared . |
| 34 | You 'll carry on where Hitler left off , if they let you , getting rid of Jews and Gypsies and colored people and … ’ ‘ … what about the people who wo n't do what you scientists tell them and get pregnant anyway . |
| 35 | First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are . |
| 36 | But his gaze focused on where ‘ it ’ lay . |
| 37 | Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off . |
| 38 | Do n't look to the right , to the left , or over your shoulder , but concentrate on where you 're going . |
| 39 | A well-planted 30″ tank , with an open area in the front where a flat stone is placed , will usually induce the fish to use the stone to spawn on where they are easily accessible for photographing . |
| 40 | Curiously these metabolic processes seem to anticipate the homeothermic organisation of mammals , thus hinting that dinosaurs carried on where the reptiles left off . |
| 41 | One 's in Edinburgh ( a nursery nurse — definitely not my side of the family ! ) , and the other 's in London , training to be an actress ‘ carrying on where ma Mammy left off … . ’ |
| 42 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 43 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 45 | I took on where he left off … what have you done for me ? |
| 46 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 47 | She said , ‘ And why are n't you getting on where you are ? ’ |
| 48 | Where vendors can not agree on where the problem lies , they will at least inform the customer in writing of the reason . |
| 49 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 50 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
| 51 | Britain 's Jackie Stewart carried on where Clark left off and , had it not been for a decision to retire early , could have dominated the sport longer than he did , and could well have added to his collection of three world titles . |
| 52 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 53 | Just as the Black Power and civil rights movements in the USA during the 1960s focused on where African Americans were allowed to be , either by legislation or through convention , so too a crucial aspect of feminist thought is concerned with whether women are allowed to have a proportionate and equitable bodily presence in ‘ our ’ parliament , council buildings , unions , in the media as journalists , and throughout the hierarchies of all workplaces and organisations — including , of course , in the galleries and the pages of art magazines . |
| 54 | If you 've truly got nothing better to do , let's forget the charades and carry on where we left off … eh , my love ? ’ |
| 55 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 56 | Negotiations dragging on where there is apparently little separating the two sides ( quite likely in the case of job evaluation where a five point difference in a grade boundary might represent hundreds of posts ) can lead to accusations of bad faith and a potentially dangerous deterioration in the general climate of industrial relations . |
| 57 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 58 | ‘ Your work is still creating interest , and the women of the Fabian Society are talking of following it up with a scientific examination of the social and economic condition of the women in the poorer parts of London , carrying on where Booth in his great survey of poverty left off . ’ |
| 59 | The back row simply carried on where it left off against the Welsh with the indestructible McBride , Robinson and O'Hara repeatedly first to the breakdown . |
| 60 | No lights came on where I figured the master bedroom probably was ; that comforted me a bit . |