Example sentences of "but where [art] " in BNC.

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1 Self-assessment using a Personal Learning Journal is an integral part of the basic training programme , but where a trainee is new and vulnerable it may be hard to distinguish a slow learner from a hard-pressed tutor .
2 In order to determine the cost of services received by the action sample , it was decided to use mainly costs already calculated in previously published research , but where a service appeared to have special local features , an examination of that service would be carried out by the research team .
3 This additional need to prove negligence imposes a considerable burden on the plaintiff , but where a Code of Practice is in existence failure of the water authority to adhere to the Code 's terms , will provide valuable evidence of their negligence .
4 She drew too much water , and the Bahamas , for the most part , are a shallow bank dotted with ripsaw coral heads and treacherous shoals where flat-bottomed boats might glide in comparative safety , but where a deep-keeled schooner was forced to creep with painful care .
5 The path simply sheds water to either side ; but where a path which follows the contours goes down into a dip , you 'll have to ensure that ponding does n't occur , and it may be necessary to form a small land drain to lead the water away to a less waterlogged area .
6 People do not always observe the principle , of course , but where a speaker flouts it , the hearer will suspect she has a reason .
7 In the case of a large community this may be less significant , but where a small community is described there can be no anonymity for anyone .
8 But where a decision affects everyone in general and no one in particular it is much harder to define sufficient interest .
9 Only amounts in excess of 2% will be surcharged , but where a surcharge is payable there will be an administration charge of 50p per person together with an amount to cover agent 's commission .
10 But where a discharger has regularly been outside consent , standards have been relaxed to accord with the existing performance in 95 per cent of samples taken .
11 But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different .
12 But where a party says , ‘ I charge you such a sum by virtue of an Act of Parliament , ’ it matters not whether the money is paid before or after the service rendered ; if he is not entitled to claim it , the money may be recovered back .
13 But where a party says , ‘ I can charge you such a sum by virtue of an Act of Parliament , ’ it matters not whether the money is paid before or after the service rendered ; if he is not entitled to claim it , the money may be recovered back .
14 It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example .
15 ( 3 ) But where a third party impugns the title to the mortgage , or the enforcement or exercise of some right or power accruing to the mortgagee thereunder , the mortgagee 's costs of the proceedings , even though they be reasonably and properly incurred , are not allowable .
16 It may be suspected that issues on which there would be widespread local resistance , but where a party political split is not clearly in evidence , rarely hit the news headlines because they are quietly negotiated in private discussions between the minister , or civil servants , and the local authority associations .
17 it was held that the pursuer would almost certainly succeed against his employer but where a substantial question remained about his fault it would be inappropriate to make any award against the master .
18 But where a disease is contracted by the defendant , more intractable difficulties arise .
19 An example of such a system would be the Tuareg of North Africa where a ruling class controls large numbers of slaves but where no centralized authority existed traditionally .
20 He had found a club where Doreen Dacres had been engaged but where no Doreen Dacres had arrived and this comforted him .
21 In his travel across the plains , Celati has created a space which may he filled with meanings , but where no single or definitive meaning can be imposed .
22 Various doctors have described cases of children whose parents believe them to have food sensitivity , but where no consistent reaction to a food can be shown .
23 Then there were mixed economies which enjoyed a fairly high standard of living and whose diversified resources included some heavy industry , but where no one branch of the economy predominated .
24 ( Example : Julian Symons 's widely anthologised short story as if By Magic , about a murder on the pier in which the killer is bound to have horribly bloodied his jacket but where no one can be seen in such a state .
25 Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled .
26 It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place .
27 We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied .
28 But where the sentence is substantial the offence will be grave , the risk the offender represents to the public can be significant and the difference which decision to grant or not to grant parole makes , may be more than a few months .
29 In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion .
30 Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ?
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