Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 2 | Having established a top camp on a col below the headwall , where Bonington stayed behind , the team began its summit bid at 3.30 am on 20 June . |
| 3 | Former Coalport production director Mike Harley ( below right ) takes over where Roger left off as production director at Tuscan . |
| 4 | Difficulties created by local authority boundaries , especially where policies differ sharply and where these divide built up areas are well described . |
| 5 | First silicon of the follow-on UltraSparc-II a year later should start where UltraSparc-I leaves off , going to 275MHz with Specint 92 ratings of between 325 and 475 and Specfp 92 between 550 and 750 . |
| 6 | First silicon of the follow-on UltraSparc-II a year later should start where UltraSparc-I leaves off , going to 275MHz with Specint 92 ratings between 325 and 475 and Specfp 92 between 550 and 750 . |
| 7 | So too did CADCentre Ltd in Cambridge — where ICL gets in again as a shareholder . |
| 8 | It has shown up deficiencies in common law where protection does not exist or can be waived for people with HIV . |
| 9 | where sheep press through . |
| 10 | Residents should have their own rooms and access to bathroom and WC facilities , preferably of their own , or shared with no more than one or two others ; tenants sharing a house are not like a family of adults and children in an ordinary house where intimacy allows much more comfortable sharing of facilities |
| 11 | An ‘ atrophied preface ’ , typically at the end of the boom , contains a mock Whitmanesque statement of stylistic plenty where Burroughs whips up its visual and aural multiplicity : ‘ This book spills off the page in all directions , kaleidoscope of vistas , medley of tunes and street noises , farts and riot yipes … ’ |
| 12 | Deeper down in the chest , where Tod does n't often burrow , the women get appreciably younger and are to be seen in things like shorts and swimwear . |
| 13 | The surviving accounts of his triumph dwell on the size of the booty , but of greater interest to us is its dispersal : statues were dedicated in Italian and even in Spanish towns , where Mummius had earlier served as praetor ( judicial magistrate ) and provincial governor . |
| 14 | These improvements were achieved in a market where hire rates have not improved and where contracts became even harder to win with margins further reduced . |
| 15 | Where employers have not yet applied SSAP 24 to post-retirement benefits other than pensions , the abstract prescribes disclosures to be included in their financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 23 December 1992 , where the cost of meeting such benefits is expected to be material . |
| 16 | This lamplit cave , where Jan turns back and farts , |
| 17 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 18 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 19 | A cuckoo that finds a host 's nest where incubation has already started will often rob the nest causing the unfortunate host to start a new clutch , thus providing the cuckoo with a further chance for parasitism . |
| 20 | In the remoter rural areas , where agriculture has traditionally held a virtual monopoly of employment opportunities , the declining demand for labour in agriculture has historically led to widespread rural depopulation . |
| 21 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 22 | Where hedges become very interesting , and suggest a huge meadow of fresh research , is when they appear in contexts where a priori we would expect total precision , such as in scientific lectures . |
| 23 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 24 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 25 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 26 | where animals have usually four legs |
| 27 | ‘ Harvester picked up where Berni left off , ’ he says . |
| 28 | West Country Living : Where waves wash away city tension Lynne Edmunds finds that the trek to a more leisurely crowd-free lifestyle is far from being an over-60s monopoly |
| 29 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 30 | For a store which is totally uncompromising in the wholefood and vegan pedigree of all products and meals on sale , where Rex waxes eloquently about macrobiotics and the ying and yang of food , it 's comforting to note that genuine beers fulfill his criteria quite easily . |