Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle .
2 ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction .
3 In point of fact , for my Uaru tank , I would probably simply potter out to the garden , where I have piles of our local rock , which seems to be a metamorphosed sandstone , and has proved inert during years of use .
4 I never go round by myself without seeing one because I hear feet scrabbling on the bark or I see bits of fir cone floating down .
5 There are exceptional circumstances , such as my total castration or my taking vows as a monk , where my only residual fitness is that which accrues to me through my assistances to relatives .
6 Normally , you would use which to join sentences about things and who or which to join sentences about people .
7 Her first stop was Merchiston Tower , once home to our name-sake , John Napier , where she met members of the Governing Body , staff and the Students Association .
8 The figure is also lower than that derived by Hughes 100 for her single chemistry thesis , where she found elements of the thesis research in five subsequent papers .
9 Equally , the figure is lower than figure derived by Hughes for her single chemistry thesis , where she found elements of the thesis research in five subsequent papers .
10 You could go through again and you could put sodium instead of that M G but where you had things like M G O H twice you 'd just have N A O H so you 'd have a have to do a little bit of changing about .
11 There are two main approaches for deriving double stops : the first is chordal , where you break chords into their component intervals ; the second is scalic , where you break scales down into as many intervals as you can .
12 Cohesive markers are not always necessary , but where you find sentences without evident markers , it may be useful to inspect them closely to be certain that the relationship with the preceding sentence is sufficiently clear .
13 Where you study matters for four reasons :
14 You do n't let players get to the end of their contracts or you get peanuts for them .
15 I 've tried to slow down my pattern of speech , I 've tried to simplify my vocabulary , and certain methods of when you 're talking to someone you do n't tower over them , you try and squat to his level or you give instructions in certain ways to certain classes .
16 In another experiment one of the pair had a non-illusory view ; for example he or she had portholes of plane glass .
17 They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized .
18 At times the question may arise as to the precise capacity in which a solicitor is in practice overseas , more especially where he or she has qualifications in two or more jurisdictions .
19 You need to know whether your potential accountant could undertake royalty examinations , and if he or she has colleagues in other countries to assist with international tax problems at very short notice .
20 Members of an established company scheme at the time of the 1989 Budget , who remain in the same scheme — or who change schemes within the same group of associated employers — are not affected by the change .
21 Conversely , the Commission is given wide powers to deal with those who fail to notify mergers or to provide the information demanded of them or who implement mergers in contravention of an obligation to suspend .
22 ‘ In the days before there was much legislation on public health matters , public nuisance was the only offence for which it was possible to prosecute those who stank out the neighbourhood with fumes from glassworks , tanneries and smelters , or who kept pigs in the streets , or kept explosives in dangerous places …
23 Someone who buys goods having more than one common use or who wants goods for an abnormal purpose will not benefit from section 14(3) unless the seller was expressly informed of the particular purpose for which they were required .
24 By those who treat scientific and religious discourse as two distinct language games , or who detach doctrines of creation from statements about the physical world , Drummond 's attempt to integrate his faith with evolutionary science would be dismissed as an unfortunate error .
25 But what of the farmer who grew crops to feed the enemy 's army , or who paid taxes to the enemy king ( and more and more people were now doing this , in one form or another ) , or whose farmyard provided feathers for enemy arrows ?
26 We visited Abu Dhabi and Dubai , where we met members of the royal family and other officials ; Hong Kong ; Gibraltar ; and other towns and cities in Britain .
27 And its suggested ‘ activities ’ , like rearing silkworms , bore no resemblance to our gang meetings , where we planned raids on greenhouses , smoked cigarette ends picked up in the street or watched Brian Fish eat a live worm .
28 We also ‘ drowned male kittens , beat up the man who came to read the meter , and held covens where we stuck pins in male voodoo dollies ’ .
29 ‘ We had rushes of blood where we committed offences in dangerous positions . ’
30 Recall the first section of this chapter , where we outlined ways in which the academic community has the chance of revitalizing its self-critical capacities .
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