Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have no dislike of getting their feet wet , while preferring to stay dry where the easy option exists . |
| 2 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 3 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 4 | Imagine the boat-owners cuddled up here , planning their trip up the Severn and along the canals , whispering ‘ Do n't wake the children ! ’ — who 'd be asleep where Vern was now . |
| 5 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 6 | Seated where he is , Rhys Williams knows one false move could mean the might of God descending on him at any moment . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , judges often give reduced sentences on a plea of guilty where there are mitigating circumstances , or where the need for young children to give evidence in court is avoided . |
| 8 | Similarly , the accused is guilty where ownership passes on delivery such as when food is eaten or petrol put into the tank . |
| 9 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 10 | ( f ) Insurance If the matrimonial home is in the sole name of the husband then it is best to change the insurance arrangements once agreement is reached or the court order made ; the husband may neglect or to be unnecessary where the property already stands in the joint names of husband and wife and a separate declaration of trust is made . |
| 11 | The plan was to change vehicles on the outskirts of Habane then continue on to Kondese where hundreds of men , mostly ex-Security policemen loyal to Ngune , were waiting to launch a crushing offensive against Jamel Mobuto 's inept , and disorganized , government troops , many of whom had only joined up when the new regime was instated . |
| 12 | For him it becomes so self-evident where true fulfilment lies that those who are content to rest in the basic reformation in faith appear ludicrous . |
| 13 | He gropes mentally , ‘ straining every nerve in an agonised attempt to divine as quickly as Possible where the trap lay ’ . |
| 14 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 15 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 16 | Although a conviction is perfectly possible where no harm results — and such a case might still be regarded as a most serious non-fatal offence , since D tried to cause death , and the subjective principles confirm the high guilt — there are also cases where D's attempt to kill results in serious injury to the victim . |
| 17 | Thirdly , quality is only possible where every component of the organisation 's needs is defined and appropriate training procedures are identified and implemented in order to improve the staff selection process . |
| 18 | A pleasing aspect of this technique is that overpainting is possible where adjustments are required . |
| 19 | How are you going to make sure your customer 's payment to you wo n't be stopped by his government 's policies , which is always possible where there are balance of payments or political problems ? |
| 20 | Yet change is possible where there is willingness that progress should take place . |
| 21 | All this is only possible where multi-skilling and flexible skilling are the norm , rather than restrictive skill defensiveness . |
| 22 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 23 | It is probably fair to say that communication has sometimes been more effective at very local level where local sharing of concerns over mutual clients has been possible where inter-agency relationships are good . |
| 24 | Recognition of detrital grain morphology ( form , sphericity , roundness and , in some cases , surface textures ) in thin section is only possible where grain surfaces have not been modified during diagenesis . |
| 25 | This is possible where , as in Sterns v. Vickers , the contract is for the sale of unascertained goods out of a specified bulk . |
| 26 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 27 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 28 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 29 | This is only possible where there is a transnational capitalist class willing to deal with the TNCs when , for example , the comprador role may be too dangerous or has actually been abolished . |
| 30 | The LAW 's main function is ‘ to make development land available as quickly as possible where the private sector finds it difficult to complete transactions ’ . |