Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.

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1 There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) .
2 RESTRICTED CONTRACTS — the legal term for lettings where the landlord and tenant live in the same house .
3 Other preparations recommended for minor burns include Nelson 's Burn Ointment and Pakua , a wonderful preparation which aids healing in all sorts of injuries where the skin is damaged .
4 And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound .
5 Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds .
6 Officers have been combing scrubland and bracken on the outskirts of Bicester where the revolver was found , looking for other weapons , baseball bats used in the attack .
7 And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot .
8 This was another futile pretension of formality , since anyone wanting to buy from Nana 's small , dusty stock of essentials when the window was shuttered simply wandered into the yard and called for attention .
9 Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ :
10 There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation .
11 The Lorne plateau , between Loch Awe and Oban in western Scotland , lies to the north-east of Kilmelford where the Lagalochan intrusive complex has been investigated for copper and gold .
12 It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place .
13 Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered .
14 Formal objections are not invited at this consultation stage as a further period will be allowed for the submission of objections when the proposals are formally advertised .
15 Some very good examples of solution effects may be observed on the coast of Glamorgan where the Carboniferous Limestone emerges as the wavecut platform from beneath Liassic cliffs , for example near Nash Point .
16 Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone .
17 Could we put on the agenda for a future meeting something called review of guidelines where the , this is exactly the issue .
18 ‘ No action of damages where the damages claimed consist of or include damages … in respect of personal injuries to any person shall be brought in Scotland against any person unless it is commenced … before the expiration of three years from the date of the act , neglect or default giving rise to the action …
19 Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle .
20 Sir John Donaldson M.R. has described in Abse v. Smith how the judges of every court had inherent power to regulate the practices of their court , which included the identification of those they were willing to hear plead before them , and it was not in dispute before us that these powers , until they were removed by section 27 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , were exercised by High Court judges sitting as such .
21 Ever dug up a bed of apparently flourishing potatoes , only to find the tubers riddles with holes where the slugs have been at them ?
22 Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe .
23 The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 .
24 They were n't going to run the cars until midday when the heavy heat really built up .
25 After the arrest of Chatichai and Arthit the coup was swift and bloodless and caused little disruption in Bangkok where the key installations were all placed under military control .
26 A series of new Isle of Man stamps featuring lifeboats was launched with a splash in February when the Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary was launched into the harbour with the Lieutenant Governor of the Island , Sir Laurence Jones , aboard .
27 However , the government on Oct. 28 withdrew the National Bank of Pakistan from public sale , on the grounds that it acted as the treasury arm of the State Bank of Pakistan in places where the State Bank had no office .
28 After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located .
29 Keith Evans , chairman of the council 's public services committee , attended a ceremony in London where the 1993 Seaside Awards to local authorities were made .
30 Approve the amendment of the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 to provide for the Law Society to grant Remuneration Certificates to either [ i ] residuary beneficiaries in cases where the only executor is a solicitor acting in his or her professional capacity , with a review of the position one year from the date of implementation of the new SRO , or [ ii ] residuary beneficiaries in cases where at least one executor is a solicitor acting in his or her professional capacity .
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