Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brambling in the pine tree was on its way back to its breeding grounds in birch woods or conifer forests — where insect populations peak during the short summer season in the far north of Europe . |
| 2 | In this regard , data on the helix-coil melting transition in single strands of DNA and RNA present an opportunity to study structure formation that benefits from base stacking interactions ( analogous to those found in the double stranded helix ) , but where hydrogen bonds play a minor role in structure stabilisation ( and then only involve ribose hydroxyl groups in single stranded RNA ) . |
| 3 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 4 | Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process . |
| 5 | But much of the flexibility stems from the use of self-managing teams , whose members are multi-skilled , and where payment systems reward co-operation rather than competition , and recognize skill acquisition . |
| 6 | Where directorate systems work well , there seems to be an increase in staff morale and greater co-operation between professional groups as they cohere around an integrated programme of patient care . |
| 7 | Early next year , the company plans to produce a full-blown version where Progress applications reside on the HP 3000 . |
| 8 | Describes a project where case managers employed by social services , with devolved budgets , were located in a geriatric multi-disciplinary team . |
| 9 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 10 | Where leftist governments do gain power , international financial markets and the loss of business confidence automatically create unfavourable climates for radical social reforms , normally shaping the ‘ economic facts of life ’ to constrain any fundamental alteration of capitalism long before the ultimate weapons available to domestic business ( such as investment strikes ) have to be brought into play . |
| 11 | Section 138 does not affect the court 's powers to grant relief on such terms as it thinks fit under s 146(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925 , but subject thereto , it provides that where rent arrears have not been paid into court not less than five clear days before the hearing , then if there is a right of re-entry or forfeiture the court must order possession at the expiry of such period , not being less than four weeks from the date of the order , as the court thinks fit , unless within that period the lessee pays into court all the rent in arrears and the costs . |
| 12 | Wind driven generators are economical where wind velocities average 6 m/s or more . |
| 13 | The major line of development of the College has thus been its transformation from a teaching school attached to an equine infirmary , to a fully fledged university school in which teaching at undergraduate level and research of high standing encompass the whole range of domesticated animals , and where postgraduate courses meet the increasing demands of specialisation in such subjects as animal health , pathology and laboratory animal science . |
| 14 | The sun must only be a rare visitor to this mysterious landscape where spring flowers push through the slowly melting ice . |
| 15 | Clearly , such an arrangement necessitates the use of more elaborate and comprehensive timber framing than would be employed in a narrow barn where masonry walls provide all the support for the roof . |
| 16 | I would strongly recommend , where club rules allow , that you take a small stove and tea-brewing equipment . |
| 17 | The Aquarium also has an attractive bar/lounge with colour TV and video , where Club clients get together for regular party nights . |
| 18 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 19 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 20 | This step prolonged the localisation of PCNA immunoreactivity in time , which is especially useful in multicentre studies , where biopsy specimens have to be sent from several endoscopy units to a central laboratory . |
| 21 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 22 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 23 | Guba and Lincoln base their approach upon the notion that , where stakeholder groups differ in their assessment of the effectiveness of their organizations , this is because of underlying differences in their value systems , which influence their assessment of the importance of different mixes of organizational outputs . |
| 24 | With examples drawn from seventeenth-century England , Merton argued that the social utility of both science and technology was increasingly recognized where puritan values held sway . |
| 25 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 26 | An index of living standards will be derived and related to income to assess whether there is a poverty ‘ threshold'--a point on the income distribution where living standards decline sharply . |
| 27 | Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps . |
| 28 | These valleys were cut most easily and deeply where fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks . |
| 29 | Where arts projects follow this model ( the Art and the Built Environment Project show some features of this approach ) there seem to be difficulties in persuading participants to respond to the evaluator 's findings ( Pring , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Where snow depths increased rapidly in central and eastern districts , scores of vehicles and their occupants were trapped on busy highways where such conditions have been rare in recent years . |