Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released … |
| 2 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 3 | But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency . |
| 4 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 5 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 6 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 7 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 8 | Polar desert is the area of bare rocks and soils beyond the tundra , where only a thin , patchy covering of plant life is found . |
| 9 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 10 | Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them . |
| 11 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 12 | This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets . |
| 13 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 14 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 15 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 16 | ‘ A company where only a few outside interests own the shares . |
| 17 | Across the Atlantic , where only a tiny minority took a serious interest in global politics , there was little obvious response . |
| 18 | where only a cook |
| 19 | Multiple bands were also clearly seen in orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and the old world monkey Ceropithecus aethiops , but not in more distantly related species , such as pig or cow , where only a single hybridising band is seen . |
| 20 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 21 | With only shocked monosyllables passing between us , we waded into the living room , where just a small steam flowed through from the area of the guest bedroom and bathroom . |
| 22 | Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done , the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child . |
| 23 | Clonmacnoise had now become scientific , with a large brick Interpretive Centre where once a motherly woman had sold entrance tickets in a shed . |
| 24 | It has a large garden and a terrace where once a week , instead of dinner , you may enjoy a barbecue . |
| 25 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 26 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 27 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 28 | There is a corner of a frozen field in Scotland … where once a year you 'll find some of the toughest … some of the hardest … some of the wackiest racers in sport … |
| 29 | THREE years of undergraduate study now requires 10 to 20 paperbacks where formerly a few solid textbooks sufficed . |
| 30 | On any Product page where both an identifier and title prompt appear , you can enter either the identifier or the title to indicate the item required . |