Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] was [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The established deaf football clubs in England were based in Midlands and Northern cities and towns where work was hard and money was scarce . |
| 2 | It amounted , they said , to a total alteration of the law of the land and the establishment of a permanent act of insolvency at a time when trade was embarrassed and credit had sunk to its lowest ebb . |
| 3 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 4 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 5 | ‘ There was once a bumper sticker that read ‘ remember the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty ? ’ |