Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre manager later resigned after failing to stop the case going to court where Ben was put on probation . |
| 2 | Bill had had his own small share of this sometimes useful refusal to recognise awkward truths , particularly where Marcus was concerned . |
| 3 | Robison & Davidson was the only Lilley subsidiary not in receivership and is the subject of an institution-backed management buy-out . |
| 4 | THE last remnants of the estate of the troubled Lilley Group were sold yesterday when the entire share capital of Dumfries-based builder Robison & Davidson was bought by a management team led by the managing director , Bob Robison , writes John Hatfield . |
| 5 | There seemed to be quite a lot of turn from the end where Philippe was bowling but at my end there seemed to be no life at all . |
| 6 | An exception to this was the reporting of blood in motions , where 5-ASA was significantly better . |
| 7 | The series recalled a daring war-time raid by the Allies on Singapore harbour , where Bernard was stationed in 1946 following the Japanese surrender . |
| 8 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 9 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 10 | Or Marcus was not unlike Winifred . |
| 11 | He passed the barred windows of Edwin 's studio ; the only light in the building came from an upstairs room , the living-room , where Beryl was almost certainly sitting and brooding alone . |
| 12 | When a special event or a victory like the Nile , Trafalgar or Waterloo was to be announced , the Mail Coach and horses were decorated with laurels and a red flag floated from the roof of the coach . |
| 13 | Rosa showed him into the living-room , where Luce was waiting with mixed feelings . |
| 14 | A and , we it , well that that takes us back to er , to what I think , either er Tom or Jim was saying there that you know , if you 're paying into something yo you you expect to er , to get out of it when and if you need it . |
| 15 | If Rod or Jim were n't on the set on time , we would have to wait about until they arrived . |
| 16 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 17 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 18 | Apart from McLeish 's indiscretion , there was such an air of superiority about Aberdeen that disintegration looked an imminent possibility where Clydebank were concerned . |
| 19 | So closely was Ceauşescu identified with the policy of nepotism that local people and foreign observers often presumed that men like Verdeţ or Manescu were intermarried with the clan . |
| 20 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 21 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 22 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 23 | So the L & NWR were building coaches in the same area as Joseph Wright & Sons , at best not a satisfactory arrangement , and a major factor in the decision to transfer this activity to Wolverton . |
| 24 | For obvious reasons , the exterior of these vehicles on the L & NWR were not conspicuous . |
| 25 | ‘ Sit down , C.W. , ’ Kolchinsky said , waving towards the black leather sofa where Sabrina was sitting . |
| 26 | They lived at 3 Windmill Street , Lad Lane , Deansgate , where William was born . |
| 27 | David and Olga are both retired from Cambridge University where David was a principal lecturer and member of the music faculty and where Olga was a music librarian . |
| 28 | If Coel or Coilus was the original of Old King Cole , he lived many centuries before smoking was practised in Britain and before fiddles had been conceived . |
| 29 | Anne wept for him and for Kathleen , who must be told the news , and decided that she must definitely find out where Kathleen was and visit her . |
| 30 | But he is pleased with deals at Brooklands business park where lettings last week to Sony and Marks & Spencer were ‘ spectacular ’ . |