Example sentences of "[conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgil 's Aeneas leaves a burning Troy to go on his adventures , effect his betrayal , and arrive at the Tiber , where an empire is to rise . |
| 2 | This remains particularly so today where an objectivist stance on morality prevails in a national or local culture anywhere in the catholic world . |
| 3 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 4 | The neutral question is interpreted phenomenally , where an older child ( around seven years ) interprets it in a realist fashion . |
| 5 | The circumstances are : where the adjudications authority failed to take into account specific evidence before it relating to a claim ; where a member of staff did not submit or record relevant evidence ; or where an adjudication officer overlooked and misconstrued a provision in legislation or case law . |
| 6 | They will only be challenged if ‘ it can be shown that the proposed referral is wholly unjustified on clinical grounds , or where an alternative referral would be equally efficacious , taking into account the patient 's wishes ’ . |
| 7 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 8 | Where an employee is paid once each month , but in multiples of a week , for example on the last Friday of each month , add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before . |
| 9 | Similar chords of pathos are struck in Kieslowski 's A Short Film About Love , where an adolescent voyeur becomes infatuated with an older woman living across the square . |
| 10 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 11 | Where an average minke whale would yield between 1000 and 2000 kg ( 2200–4400 lb ) of meat , now some 17–34 dolphins have to die to provide an equivalent amount . |
| 12 | Even La Scala , where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500 , rarely comes close to breaking even . |
| 13 | Those unable to get to Salzburg — where an estimated 300,000 Japanese will be bound this year — may eventually listen to Mr Saegusa 's mélange in the Wave , a glossy modern building in the fashionable Roppongi district of Tokyo . |
| 14 | Where an infant actually has in his hands tangible movable property , it would seem that he has a power of disposing of it , of which the limits — if such there are — have not been determined . |
| 15 | No country was worse hit than Britain , where an economic gale tore through companies which were already dangerously weak . |
| 16 | ’ ( ‘ Outside ’ was quite a sumptuous place in its little way ; a good walk from the house , along a winding path between yew and box trees and down some artistically rounded white steps , to a trellised porch with chequered black and red tiled floor , where an escort might wait on a dark night . |
| 17 | In many cases , pinpointing provenance , where an object of a particular type was made , enables us to identify it quite specifically . |
| 18 | Where an object has been heavily restored , radiography can frequently ‘ see ’ through the carefully applied make-up . |
| 19 | In the case of Finney ( 1974 ) , where an attendant at a mental hospital caused the death of a patient by releasing a flow of boiling water into a bath , the test was whether he was grossly negligent . |
| 20 | He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski . |
| 21 | In a garden large enough to include a wild herbage meadow , or where an established orchard can be converted for the purpose , soil preparation must aim to reduce , not increase , fertility . |
| 22 | This is especially true if you are playing a sport such as squash , where an extremely high level of stamina is needed right from the very beginning . |
| 23 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 24 | Neurones connect with one another via ‘ synapses ’ , where an end branch of an axon comes into contact with a cell body or dendrite of another neurone . |
| 25 | ‘ And if you were to look in here , ’ and he pointed to his side , where an ancient oak chest , bound with brass braces and secured with a giant lock and key stood , ‘ you would find Møn 's Book of Legends , in which the massacre is chronicled in words by two contemporary survivors . |
| 26 | RELIEF , anger and fear were felt yesterday in the scattered communities near the factory car park where an American EF-111 jet crashed on Thursday just yards from where 45 people were working . |
| 27 | Compare them with our comprehensive schools , where an official attempt was made to trample upon the diversity of the British people . |
| 28 | In theory , Government should be a seamless web where an incoming administration of whatever persuasion is presented with a smoothly-running machine ready to obey its command . |
| 29 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 30 | Where an educational approach is to be taken by all the various specialist bodies , in agriculture , health , social welfare housing and so on , a major training commitment is required for all staff . |