Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] where [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 2 | Yes , there 's always been a genuine interest in the Arts Association as a point where the university , those people involved in the university , can hear about what 's taking place in the arts and also participate in some aspects of the advisory panels . |
| 3 | Silas parked the minibus near a gap where a path led into the gloom , and as they trod the leaf-mould their steps made no sound . |
| 4 | The latter had a mere twelve members but nevertheless carried weight in a situation where the Callaghan government was in a technical minority in the House and in danger of imminent defeat . |
| 5 | Clearly a major problem in controlling corporate crime is raising victim and public consciousness to a level where the community desires and supports a policy of more active and effective state control and regulation . |
| 6 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 7 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 8 | While less than a mile away , as the moon came out again from behind clouds , it shone through a window into a cage where an old eagle perched and its light fell across her head and one of her wings . |
| 9 | It becomes a rite of separation into an area where the detective 's need to ‘ juggle with statistics and detection rates ’ is diametrically opposed to the constantly voiced uniform preference for action which is simply programmed to ‘ nail the prig down ’ . |
| 10 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 11 | ‘ Escape ’ was defined as ‘ escape from a place where the defendant has occupation or control over land to a place which is outside his occupation or control . ’ |
| 12 | There was a kiln to dry the corn in an area where the damp climate gave a short season for harvesting and a mill , where the grain was processed . |
| 13 | Whether or not , as Heath reported , the Vietnamese were turning increasingly to the US for advice and assistance in a situation where the Governor of Annam was n't speaking to the Prime Minister — who was being kept on . |
| 14 | A child in a world where the Angel had gone . |
| 15 | ‘ Nominative not objective pronoun in a comparison where the verb is understood . ’ |
| 16 | At one point they stopped to smoke a chillim in a glade where the conifers were thinner and dense clumps of feathery-leafed bamboo had spread across the open spaces . |
| 17 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 18 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 19 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 20 | It is in these situations , particularly following a public inquiry into a case where a child has died , that poor co-operation tends to be most exposed . |
| 21 | Not only is it a move into a realm where the distinction between life and death seems , as in ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , to have broken down , it is also a crossing to the world of the ‘ cannibal isle ’ which is revealed as only another version of the life left behind , and where the realization that ‘ Life is very long ’ is not escaped from , but reinforced . |
| 22 | The fact that Crosby fought tooth and nail to get the job in an area where the success rate is so limited and expectation so high , speaks volumes for his bottle . |
| 23 | In El Salvador , the FMLN is trying to build a party and electoral apparatus in a climate where the killers of the past decade are still at large . |
| 24 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |
| 25 | Although much work remains to be carried out on the coach , including repairs to windows and roof , restoration of interior compartments and finally repainting in L & SWR salmon pink and brown livery , it is hoped to complete the restoration within a year where the LSWR carriage will join the TVR coach and the two GWR coaches to form a very unique vintage train and to move the Gwili further up the valley . |
| 26 | It does n't seem very clever of them to cut the grant for a festival in a region where the MPs are both Scottish ministers . ’ |
| 27 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 28 | In the course of the arguments before us it was suggested that a construction of section 8 of the Act of 1969 which denies a 16- or 17-year-old girl an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , but leaves it open to her parents to consent to such treatment , could in theory lead to a case where a pregnant 16-year-old refuses an abortion , but her parents consent to her pregnancy being terminated . |
| 29 | A leading commentator on the criminal law , Professor J. C. Smith , has drawn attention to a situation where a farmer shoots dead an alsatian dog . |
| 30 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |