Example sentences of "[adj] where [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have no dislike of getting their feet wet , while preferring to stay dry where the easy option exists . |
| 2 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 3 | ( f ) Insurance If the matrimonial home is in the sole name of the husband then it is best to change the insurance arrangements once agreement is reached or the court order made ; the husband may neglect or to be unnecessary where the property already stands in the joint names of husband and wife and a separate declaration of trust is made . |
| 4 | Thirdly , quality is only possible where every component of the organisation 's needs is defined and appropriate training procedures are identified and implemented in order to improve the staff selection process . |
| 5 | Although a conviction is perfectly possible where no harm results — and such a case might still be regarded as a most serious non-fatal offence , since D tried to cause death , and the subjective principles confirm the high guilt — there are also cases where D's attempt to kill results in serious injury to the victim . |
| 6 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 7 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 8 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 9 | However , that is not possible where an order is placed by telephone . |
| 10 | He gropes mentally , ‘ straining every nerve in an agonised attempt to divine as quickly as Possible where the trap lay ’ . |
| 11 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 12 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 13 | The LAW 's main function is ‘ to make development land available as quickly as possible where the private sector finds it difficult to complete transactions ’ . |
| 14 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 15 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 16 | VAT will not be due if the vessel is a pleasure craft over eight years old on 1 January 1993 , or when the VAT due is negligible ( for UK purposes it will not be due where the vessel is worth less than £4,000 ) . |
| 17 | I was feeling a bit pissed off : I was sore where the fickle Shelly had left her mark and I was distinctly peckish . |
| 18 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 19 | It will not be dishonest where the accused believes he had a right in law to the property or that he would have the other 's consent to take the property . |
| 20 | The problem can be very acute where a UK intermediate holding company holds shares in foreign companies , and dividends are paid to the foreign parent . |
| 21 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 22 | The problem is particularly acute where the dynamic competition involves investment in risky R&D : the market power it confers is the incentive for undertaking the investment . |
| 23 | The problem with tied bars is particularly acute where the bar is linked to the number two blond beer , Anker , which has its own black beer , Anker stout . |
| 24 | I 'd like to set up a different sort of help-line , something informal and friendly where the employees wo n't be afraid to discuss their problems . ’ |
| 25 | Many colleges , particularly those designated as Tertiary where the relationship is closer , ordinarily describe the 11–16 high schools with which they work as ‘ partner ’ schools , rather than the unhelpfully condescending term ‘ feeder ’ schools . |
| 26 | Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms . |
| 27 | Intentionally or not , Sharp 's collection was strong where the museum 's was weak ; among his treasures were an exceedingly rare Adam Elsheimer copper of ‘ The flight into Egypt ’ , Annibale Carracci 's ‘ Boy drinking ’ ( the primary version of the ex-Ellesmere canvas now in a private collection , Zurich ) , Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo 's ‘ Boy with a flute ’ , Guido Reni and G.A . |
| 28 | There is obviously a marked difference between the strategic and finance approaches , but they are not mutually exclusive : the one is strong where the other is weak . |
| 29 | The expectation of an open offer and clawback from shareholders may be strong where the new shares being issued represent a significant proportion of the existing issued shares of the bidder or are being offered at a significant discount to their current market price . |
| 30 | Her throat was still painful where the other woman 's fingers had dug in to her . |