Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coverdale training , where groups study their behaviour in the performance of a series of tasks . |
| 2 | Where supporters call her brave and detractors selfish , it is perhaps nearer the truth to see the passionately political Katharine Hamnett as developing all the pragmatic hallmarks of the hard-nosed businesswoman . |
| 3 | Where countries use their own devices to protect their domestic industries artificially from genuine overseas competition , they must expect us to do the same . |
| 4 | Where areas have their own separate currencies , the forces revealed in the accounts have a vital bearing on the prospects for exchange rates ; where there are not separate currencies these same forces have a bearing on the prospects for the real economy , including unemployment . |
| 5 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 6 | A promotional drive in California was directed at specific industrial sectors — like electronics — where officials thought their best chance of success would lie . |
| 7 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The government also believes , ’ said the Minister , that ‘ where farmers restrict their activities beyond the degree which could be regarded as good agricultural practice , they should be compensated . ’ |
| 9 | This is particularly so where tribunals have their own appellate tribunal . |
| 10 | The guides will naturally point out such things as where children hang their coats and where children are collected at the end of the day . |
| 11 | More modern , historically accurate accounts of SBS activities are available ; but they lack the colour of this first-hand view , expressed in many humorous turns of phrases — albeit with a tinge of bitterness with regard to operations on mainland Greece and the Istrian Peninsula , where partisans demonstrated their fickle tendencies . |
| 12 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 13 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 14 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |
| 15 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 16 | By the Seventies , ballpoints reigned supreme and , once schools allowed their use , the future for fountain pens looked bleak . |
| 17 | In the immediate postwar period as the franchise was again extended , and as Labour emerged as the principal opposition , so Conservatives retrained their guns . |
| 18 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 19 | Milk was generally carried by passenger trains , but increasingly milk rather than passengers became their raison d'être . |
| 20 | The top two , St Johnstone and Partick Thistle , maintained their unbeaten records although Saints dropped their first home point this season to Morton at McDiarmid Park . |
| 21 | ‘ In the name of Isis and Amon-Ra , ’ began Kruger , ‘ though the way we walk is thorny , and of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep , as the rain enters the soil so the river enters the sea , and of Beelzebub and Asmodeus , so tears surround our predestined end . ’ |
| 22 | A ‘ Business Says Yes ’ group has been formed , claiming widespread support from small and medium-sized business for strong powers for a Scottish assembly , although critics claim its membership is tiny . |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH critics give their judgment on the latest movie releases , it is the public that determines which films become hits . |
| 24 | However , traditionally , it was generally believed that , as a consequence of the wording of ss. 141 and 142 , once landlords assigned their reversionary interest they could only sue or be sued by the original tenant . |
| 25 | How else can one explain why women are more likely than men to take their IBS symptoms to a doctor in western cultures , whereas the opposite is true in India ? |
| 26 | In addition , there is a similar figure outside the gas supply area , and some Regions have better prospects than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 27 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 28 | Asian women were more likely than others to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour ( 8/38 ( 21% ) v 141/1333 ( 11% ) , p<0.05 ) and epidural anaesthesia ( 13/34 ( 38% ) v 263/1326 ( 20% ) , p<0.01 ) . |
| 29 | Immature babies are even more likely than others to have their umbilical cords clamped and cut immediately after birth to allow resuscitation and transfer to neonatal intensive care . |
| 30 | there seems to be more men than women eat your bakewell tart then |