Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 2 | They had dinner at a superb restaurant , bustling with the rich and famous , where everyone covertly glanced at everyone else , slyly assessing outfits and hairdos . |
| 3 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 4 | I 'll never forget the cellar of a little pub where I once stood for 10 agonizing minutes — ( it seemed like a century ) — with three of my friends , facing four of the meanest-looking characters I had ever met . |
| 5 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 6 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 7 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 8 | Where you ever put on the landing ? |
| 9 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 10 | It is currently fashionable to talk of " competition policy " where one formerly talked of " monopoly " or " anti-monopoly policy " . |
| 11 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 12 | Within an office environment where there seldom seems to be time to learn new software this approach may find a considerable following . |
| 13 | That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party . |
| 14 | Polar bears , especially mothers with cubs , tend to spend the summer on the islands , where they also graze on the vegetation . |
| 15 | These beautiful fish quickly adapt to aquarium life , and make ideal occupants for the reef style aquarium where they rarely interfere with any of the invertebrates . |
| 16 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 17 | It seems that there can be no conspiracy between an employer and his employees , at least where they merely go about their employer 's business . |
| 18 | Managerialist attitudes have also had an impact , with a few authorities ( particularly on the radical right ) preferring a managing director model , which downgrades corporate management and has sometimes undermined Bains-type arrangements even where they formally continue in existence . |
| 19 | The first approach involved despatching specially selected officers into ‘ alienated neighbourhoods ’ and having them operate from ‘ storefront ’ mini-police stations , where they sometimes worked in teams , helping and advising marginal sections of society , like drug addicts and delinquent children . |
| 20 | Except , of course , where they directly impinge on me , that is . |
| 21 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 22 | While not forgetting the observations in Black-Clawson International Ltd. v. Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg A.G. [ 1975 ] A.C. 591 of Lord Reid , at p. 614f , Lord Wilberforce , at p. 629c–g , and Lord Diplock , at p. 637D , where he wisely warned against departing from the plain and natural meaning in favour of a strained construction , I am much impressed by the more adventurous but very logical pronouncements of Viscount Dilhorne , at pp. 622c–623e , and Lord Simon of Glaisdale , at p. 646e–g . |
| 23 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 24 | Fluent in French and German , he added Italian during a two-year working spell in Italy and returned to Milan in 1982 , where he now looks after fibres . |
| 25 | Yet in casual conversation with the wife of a working colleague , Jean discovers that-Peter is just the same at the computer business where he now works as a systems manager . |
| 26 | Her eyes in the darkness found his and her dry hand clasped his leg , where he now stood beside her , preparing to leave . |
| 27 | He then worked at a Salmon Farm near Fort William before joining Douglas Reyburn , where he now concentrates on new developments and quality control . |
| 28 | The courts have sometimes appeared to embrace a rule that a person can become a constructive trustee not only because he personally receives trust property knowing it is transferred in breach of trust , but also where he knowingly assists in the breach . |
| 29 | First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) . |
| 30 | She was , however , able to describe and explain the scenario that would be repeated in most of Nicholson 's most spectacular films — where he personally falls in love with his co-star . |