Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher rejected a personal campaign , preferring to emphasise her stature by carrying out her normal official duties which included a visit to Ulster and attendance at the Security and Cooperation summit in Paris ( where she was when the result of the first ballot was announced ) . |
| 2 | It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods . |
| 3 | After another couple of hair-raising bends , they entered the tiny village of Ham , where there was not a light to be seen . |
| 4 | This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface . |
| 5 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 6 | Some children saw an ending where the aggressive adult was called a ‘ champion ’ , some saw the aggressor being berated , and others saw an ending where there was neither a reward nor a punishment . |
| 7 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 8 | When he moved his head I caught sight of minute areas along his hairline where there was apparently no colour at all , as though the bistre shade of his face were a mask . |
| 9 | In Kisling 's studio , where there was always a bottle or two open , Modigliani wrote on one of the preparatory pencil sketches that he made : ‘ I , the undersigned , author of the drawing , swear never to get drunk again for the duration of the war ’ . |
| 10 | For many centuries it remained in the hands mainly of the monastic houses , where there was always a physic garden containing the herbs required by the prevailing medical incumbent . |
| 11 | Although behind them was a six-foot-high beer-bottle , with the red-lettered statement ‘ A Man 's Drink ! ’ across it , they superimposed upon it a silent and rocky country where there was always a wind blowing with a touch of rain on it and few birds sang . |
| 12 | When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by . |
| 13 | There are parts of France , used to be anyway , where he was almost a legend . |
| 14 | The National Westminster Bank has bought the freehold of its premises in Whitby Road , Ellesmere Port , where it was previously a tenant on the ground floor . |
| 15 | He also took tapings from Jacob 's hands and from his head , where it was not a mask of blood . |
| 16 | Goulding J found as a fact that all parts of the sales information had been used for the purposes of the defendant 's business and he divided information into three categories where it was not the subject of any express provision : ( 1 ) Information which because of its triviality or public accessibility was not confidential at all . |
| 17 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 18 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 19 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 20 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed to work OK , although I was always a bit worried Thom might take Eva from me — he still had her US passport . ’ |
| 22 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 23 | Anne liked to feel that er although she was n't a teenager any more , that she was at least smartly dressed as well as the other women in Bay like you know . |
| 24 | On the evidence in the present case I am satisfied that one reason why the plaintiff did so much for the deceased was her belief that , although she was not a blood relative of his , he would leave his estate to her on his death ; but , on the authority of Greasley v Cooke [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1306 , if the evidence was not sufficient to establish this positively , the plaintiff would still succeed on the fourth element in the absence of proof that she did not rely on the deceased 's statements . |
| 25 | She is usually shown wearing a religious habit ( although she was never a nun ) and either surrounded by or wearing garlands of roses . |
| 26 | But on the run to the post Bassetja was passed by Velma and the useful Top Generation , although she was only a length behind the runner-up at the finish . |
| 27 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 28 | ‘ So you were here the night he died ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So you were n't a dream . ’ |
| 30 | Once she was just a village … |