Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There were Bible studies and discussions , debate about the future of the Salvation Army , trips round the East End of London where the Founder had walked , a visit to the bombed International Headquarters , and spectacular events like a big march through London down Whitehall to Hyde Park . |
| 8 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 9 | This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives |
| 10 | He was against ‘ a very static kind of Wagner where the set is the concept ’ , to the neglect of intellectual excitement and engagement . |
| 11 | The woods of Lothlorien where the Elves dwelt was a wonderful place but now it will wither . |
| 12 | ‘ One of our key objectives is to reduce unemployment in the heart of Bootle where the rate is especially high . ’ |
| 13 | Mobbs had returned to Britain from a post at the University of Zambia where the vice-chancellor , a Canadian , had imposed a course unit structure with four units per year , but no choice . |
| 14 | It is sensible therefore that the health departments should give priority for new schemes to areas such as the north west of England and the west of Scotland where the prevalence of dental caries remains high and where large water treatment works allow for economies of scale . |
| 15 | There are , of course , big areas of Normandy where the farmers are still producing milk , butter , cream and cheeses by the old methods . |
| 16 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 17 | At its southernmost end is the village of Gargrave where the river Aire , the Skipton — Kendal road , the Settle-Carlisle Railway and the Leeds-Liverpool canal all meet to travel among the low-lying valleys of the Aire and the Ribble . |
| 18 | It is pointed out that the extinct quagga , a zebra with much less striping , came from the far south of Africa where the climate is cooler and that the northern , stripeless horses also enjoy cooler weather . |
| 19 | The trains still run along the coastline south of Jaffa where the family 's old orange groves stand . |
| 20 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 21 | The Syrian king , told by his captains that Elisha was the shrewd adviser , determined to capture him , and surrounded the hill town of Dothan where the prophet was said to be . |
| 22 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 23 | But it 's outside the armed forces and in the factories of Gloucestershire where the defence reductions have cut most deeply ; contractors like Dowty and Smiths industries have shed thousands of jobs . |
| 24 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 25 | Mikvas are being excavated in Israel , and at the top of Massada where the Jewish zealots were besieged by the Romans around two thousand years ago , a mikva has been discovered among the ruins . |
| 26 | He spends six months each year in the U.S. but returns to Romania at the beginning of April when the operation is expected to be performed . |
| 27 | At the beginning of August when the heat , humidity and despair reached their zenith in the Residency , when all eyes searched the Collector 's face for the signs of collapse which they knew to be imminent , two babies were born . |
| 28 | ‘ Minch is not just any eagle , she is an eagle of Callanish where the greatest of our kind come from . |
| 29 | French administration dies every year in the month of August when the civil servants go on holiday . |
| 30 | Bodie swung the car in a tight circle and drove quickly back to the area of London where the Stones lived . |