Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] where the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 this definition was extended ( without parliamentary approval ) to cover lesser offences where the financial rewards of success were very great . |
| 2 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 5 | ANDREW Mycock at the controls on the blending platform where the correct proportion of each ingredient is pumped into a tank which accurately measures the volume and weight of liquid before being mixed in the blending tank . |
| 6 | Such methods will be dealt with more fully in Chapter 4 on social surveys where the Lazarsfeldian conception became most firmly entrenched . |
| 7 | Societies have periodic festivals where the usual prohibitions on activities are allowed to be infringed , and the gaiety of these occasions Freud compares , by implication , with the mania experienced by some individuals when their ego coincides with their ego ideal . |
| 8 | A reasonable assumption is that the traditional dialect lexicon is at present in Durham being replaced rather rapidly by standard lexical items , and the same general pattern of variation is likely to be characteristic of regions such as the Scottish Lowlands where the local vernacular is historically distinct from any supra-local standard . |
| 9 | The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt . |
| 10 | For mile after mile the car ran on through the shadowy rubber groves where the straight-trunked trees with herringbone scars and metal latex cups stretched unendingly into the distance on either side of the road . |
| 11 | The Propeller Shop is a spacious and well-equipped area where the careful work of prop balancing and rebuilding takes place . |
| 12 | I shudder at the recollection of those long , cold hours standing around followed by long , deserted routes where the only struggle is you versus the wind , trying to keep the banner upright . |
| 13 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 14 | Edward looked round , and the sight of the empty space where the horse-drawn litter had been , all but unmanned him . |
| 15 | It may well be , however , that for the very small minority of very high income-earners where the maximum rates of direct taxation apply , taxation may have disincentive effects . |
| 16 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 17 | ‘ In a social situation where the old regime was collapsing , where old relations were in flux and general insecurity was growing , the members of the non-dominant ethnic group would see the community of language and culture as the ultimate certainty , the unambiguously demonstrable value . |
| 18 | He thought of little Rosamund and went to the high altar where the great missal lay . |
| 19 | An exception to the protection of the 1954 Act was licensed premises where the primary purpose was to sell alcohol . |
| 20 | The law of value is a historically relative law ; it is a specific form ‘ on the face of which is writ large ’ that it ‘ belongs to the kind of social structure where the productive process masters ( ‘ hemeistert ’ ) men and not men the productive process ’ . |
| 21 | Underemployment is endemic is the agricultural sector where the additional output of each extra worker may be zero ( or even negative ) ; this is a major reason for population drift from rural areas into city slums in many LDCs . |
| 22 | Schou 's theory works best in comparatively enclosed areas where the effective waves are usually caused by fairly local winds , for example Denmark and much of Britain . |
| 23 | We could see the green patches marking the old shieling sites where the incidental presence of humans and cattle over the generations had permanently fertilised the soil . |
| 24 | The ecclesiastical organization thus came to reduplicate the structure of the civil administrative geography , though not quite exactly , and least in the less Romanized areas where the Roman network of cities with their administrative territories was less regular . |
| 25 | But as an interim solution it may be advisable to develop specialist services for ethnic groups where the ethnic community asks for them . |
| 26 | We move from the cool blue , night street outside , where raw inedible food arrives , to the green cavernous kitchen where the unpalatable is prepared for consumption in the rich red dining room and on again to the clinically white lavatories . |
| 27 | By considering a simple case where the measured variables could take only two values , he obtained a mathematical expression that must be satisfied by a whole class of local theories . |
| 28 | MATURATION Now it is the turn of time to work its miracle — the new spirit is filled into oak casks and stored in cool , dark warehouses where the long process of maturation begins . |
| 29 | Some might admit that they use the best vins de taille in their demi-sec Champagnes where the extra sugar content is likely to mask any defects which may appear , but every house naturally declares that all inferior vins de taille are sold . |
| 30 | They scry and cry , wailing out their prophecies into the echoing dark where the rootless scurry and hide , but none of them can see Zambia Crevecoeur . |