Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a bit on t'spongy side , so Aah wants it finished afore t'rains come . ’
2 The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it .
3 Hammer stones are easily recognised amongst the other stones on a site as they show pock marks at each end , and often on the smooth sides , where flints have been struck .
4 Similar views on such teaching have also been expressed in the USA , where researchers have voiced concern about the preponderance of what they call ‘ frontal teaching ’ .
5 Conversely , instances of anti-abortion legislation which went far beyond the Pennsylvania statute — particularly in Louisiana , Utah and Guam , where attempts had been made to outlaw almost all abortions — appeared doomed to failure .
6 Where products do make provision for active retention management ( many do not ) it is likely to be at document level alone .
7 Even where products have short life-cycles and the strategy is to keep ahead of rivals by product development and modification at frequent intervals , as indicated in figure 5.2 , such new products are rarely totally different from their predecessors .
8 Difficulties created by local authority boundaries , especially where policies differ sharply and where these divide built up areas are well described .
9 The company collects cans in bulk from seven " aggregation centres " spread across the country , where merchants receive " factory gate " prices without incurring the costs of delivery all the way to Warrington .
10 Where accounts have been computerised it may well be possible to accelerate this programme , as discussed later in this chapter .
11 Volumes of almost 900m shares reflected not only the Midland placing , but also a sizeable number of program trades , where institutions inject or extract large blocks of funds across a range of stocks at a pre-arranged time and at pre-determined prices .
12 At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools .
13 So far , we have discussed the properties of matrices , and the algebra of matrices , in general terms , and without reference to the nature of the elements : where illustrations have been given we have used arithmetical numbers for elements .
14 In an economy with a government sector ( Figure 9.6 ) a net outflow of funds to the government ( where taxes exceed expenditure on a particular day ) results in the banking system being under-liquid .
15 PUCE complexions at Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust , where plans to commemorate the 50,000th investor suffered an unexpected hiccup yesterday .
16 But by the 1860s Berkeley Hill had become integrated into the culture of London 's professional gentry , where experts rubbed shoulders with the leaders of upper middle-class and aristocratic society .
17 Where states need armed forces to maintain internal order , as in China or South Africa or Northern Ireland , the military will continue to play a political role .
18 Where projects extend between years it is important to have a view of expected completion dates and the level of bidding needed to replace the activity lost .
19 He says it leaves prosecutors no alternative but to resort to methods such as plea bargaining , where defendents plead guilty in exchange for shorter sentences .
20 Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts .
21 These improvements were achieved in a market where hire rates have not improved and where contracts became even harder to win with margins further reduced .
22 A further source of friction and confusion is found where authorities have concurrent powers ; that is , an equal share in providing services .
23 Where employers discriminate because of disability by treating disabled persons less favourably than others , the existing concept of direct discrimination would be sufficient .
24 In Boston " mentoring " programmes exist where employers release a staff member on a regular basis over a period of months to work with potential " drop outs " to win their commitment .
25 They were too old for most of the jobs which provided training and which only recruit school or college leavers , and too young for many of the adult jobs which required recruits to be over 21 , and where employers preferred those who were married , with a family and a large mortgage .
26 Where employers have not yet applied SSAP 24 to post-retirement benefits other than pensions , the abstract prescribes disclosures to be included in their financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 23 December 1992 , where the cost of meeting such benefits is expected to be material .
27 Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices .
28 Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all .
29 Our workplaces kill campaign says that safety reps should have the right to stop the job when workers are in serious danger and where employers refuse to act .
30 It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines .
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