Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] where [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mantic view implied that the words are divinely given ; so any text can be interpreted in the light of other texts where the same word occurs . |
| 2 | All that remains of Herod the Great 's Temple is a course of huge stones where the Jews meet daily for prayer . |
| 3 | In the case of agreed bids where the target co-operates , we have to have regard to the City Code rules requiring equivalent information to be made available to all genuine competing bidders . |
| 4 | provision of additional facilities where the existing ones are under heavy pressure . |
| 5 | Quadrant 4 covers the type of innovative activities where the goals and outputs can be fairly well specified and the means to achieve them are relatively clear . |
| 6 | But there is a whole range of other situations where the opposite move is needed , where we need to stress that people can differ from us , for instance over proposals to give all children the same kind of education or to make everybody live in the same kind of house . |
| 7 | Now he dug his heels in : America was a place of infinite possibilities where an artist with no money and no background could gain recognition in a big way . |
| 8 | Other Jewish families living in the warren of neighbouring streets where the rows of cramped houses confronted their twins at almost arm-stretching distance had no such suggestion of exclusiveness and seemed to encourage the natural ebullience of their inhabitants as well as confirming their more straitened circumstances . |
| 9 | They walked on , wandering through a warren of tortuous passageways where the noise and stench grasped Athelstan by the throat . |
| 10 | For the rest , the difference principle allows deviations from an equal distribution of primary goods where the worst-off group will benefit from them . |
| 11 | This leads to the general observation , that if the aim of resource-based learning or any other teaching-learning mode is to produce the independent autonomous learner , then the tendency of closely structured sequences or units of work must be towards eventual loosening of structure , the emergence of open-ended situations where the student can exercise his choice and decision-making in a meaningful way , and " learn how to learn by learning " . |
| 12 | The following is a selection of other areas where the cause of a problem may be found : |
| 13 | Two distinctive features of the cormorant are a patch of white feathers where the legs meet the body , and another area of white extending from the rear of one eye under the head to the rear of the other eye . |
| 14 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 15 | Most important of all , he can have no rights at all against his home state — such matters are ‘ domestic ’ and normally entirely outside the purview of international law , a singularly important limitation in the area of human rights where the master criminal is the victim 's own government . |
| 16 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 17 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 18 | They demonstrate equitable intervention in favour of married women where the conditions to which I have earlier referred are found to be present . |
| 19 | Despite these cuts , however , it was expected that the balance would shift sharply in favour of sea-based systems where the USA would retain overall superiority . |
| 20 | C. P. Snow 's The Masters ( 1951 ) is a precursor rather than an instance : it tells a story of an election within a Cambridge college , a bitter tale of disappointed hopes ; but it hardly questions the intellectual claims of academia , and it ultimately belongs , like other Snow novels , to a world of administrative ambitions where a university is seen as an out-of-town version of Whitehall . |
| 21 | There seems to be no absolute reality in the world of physical forms where every creature sees things differently . |
| 22 | When the CIA and MI6 approached Gehlen with the idea of tapping into Russian communications in Berlin he responded warmly and at once started to prepare a list of suitable sites where the zones ran close together , and offering opportunities for driving tunnels from one to another . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , increase accident and a number of well-publicised fatalities where the pressure of work was cited as a contributory factor in the accident causing death must give cause for concern . |
| 24 | Further , ‘ there exists considerable uncertainty in the medical and legal professions as to the legality of terminating the use or application of life-sustaining procedures where the patient has voluntarily and in sound mind evidenced a desire that such procedures be withheld or withdrawn . ’ |
| 25 | There are many contracts for the sale of unascertained goods where the parties do not express their intention as to when property shall pass . |
| 26 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
| 27 | Omitted are a whole host of major industries where the dominant pattern is less readily discernible . |
| 28 | La Paz : It 's a city of shining skyscrapers where the wealthy industrialists and politicians enjoy life in a suburb which could be mistaken for Los Angeles . |
| 29 | Although the relative dimensions of ions ( indicated in Table 6.1 by ionic radius ) can be used to predict the general form of crystalline compounds where the bonds are largely ionic ( such as the cubic structure of fluorite ( , Fig. 6.2 ) ) , most rock-forming minerals are built from complicated silicate structures with complex charge patterns ( Fig. 6.3 ) |
| 30 | Deep under the cliffs is Hellfire Corner a labyrinth of secret tunnels where the evacuation of Dunkirk and the defence of the south east during World War II were planned . |