Example sentences of "[subord] it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago . |
| 2 | Dexter noticed that each report ended with Nicola addressing the camera , even in the third one , where it was unnecessary and intrusive . |
| 3 | I knew the Swiss Ambassador , who had a country residence where it was possible to ride and relax . |
| 4 | Italy also managed to occupy British Somaliland , in East Africa , but lost battles in the western desert areas of Egypt , in February 1941 ; also in East Africa , before the end of 1941 , where it was possible to re-establish the Emperor of Ethiopia . |
| 5 | In those areas where it was possible to receive transmissions only 9% of households had a set , and only 8% of our sample watched television daily . |
| 6 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 7 | The place was a collapsed wall , where it was possible to edge between two glittering spars of glass into a kind of cave underneath the rubble . |
| 8 | There was really only one ground on which the reformers could agree , in fiction as in fact : that cleanliness , above all , was the answer , and that the working class could achieve it in conditions where it was possible to make a genuine home . |
| 9 | The largest indigenous groupings occurred further south still , in the wooded steppe and the immense grasslands , where it was possible to herd large numbers of domestic animals , as well as engaging in hunting and primitive forms of agriculture . |
| 10 | The problems of political recruitment were also highlighted by the experience of the Soviet Union , where it was possible to categorize certain politically significant types within the Politburo , and the Supreme Soviet . |
| 11 | In the end , where it was necessary to decide compromises , with such issues as who could use women 's and lesbian and gay centres , behaviours often had to be allocated the moral high ground on highly pragmatic criteria : that they were private , or that they did n't involve conspicuous clothing , for instance . |
| 12 | Judge Lauterpacht however felt that extension of the Organisation 's powers could only be justified where it was necessary for the performance of its functions and , in this instance , was caused by South Africa 's non-performance of its obligations . |
| 13 | Where it was necessary , for example , to make art-objects as a form of delineation of the governing kinship relations , or a form of practical relations with the natural world , or-as so often — as a form of the reproduction of a specific social or social-metaphysical order , the problem of hierarchy is radically different from the outset . |
| 14 | A new poll commissioned by the Birth Control Trust showed that 82pc of people in the province thought abortion should be legal where it was necessary for the physical or mental health of the woman . |
| 15 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 16 | Danger to the stability of his Europe appeared , instead , for the first time in the Balkans , where it was impossible to muffle forever the basic clash of interest between Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 17 | Flaubert found London scaring ; it was an unhealthy city , he declared , where it was impossible to find a pot-au-feu . |
| 18 | The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion . |
| 19 | Cattle theft flourished in circumstances where it was profitable , and the risk of punishment was only one factor which thieves took into account when assessing this profitability . |
| 20 | China , Rachel had told Maggie , was the place for dragons , where it was hot , and where in the villages great paper ones were paraded with veneration . |
| 21 | Tempers reached breaking point when filming moved to the New York locations , where it was hot and muggy . |
| 22 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 23 | A large proportion of the oil surpluses was kept in a fairly liquid form and redeposited in the Euro-currency market , where it was on-lent to the monetary authorities of deficit countries , thus enabling them to finance their deficits . |
| 24 | She quickly thrust what remained of the one package , together with the fat whole package down her shirt where it was visible . |
| 25 | The land , particularly where it was peat-covered , sank as the water was removed and thus drainage involved lifting water out of the fields into high-level drains and rivers . |
| 26 | Previously , he had merely submitted the name of the person chosen by his committee to Downing Street , where it was rubber-stamped . |
| 27 | Anna was crying again and Peg cuddled her into the folds of her own shawl where it was warm . |
| 28 | In North America , where it was first identified , it is seriously altering the environment . |
| 29 | No wonder I could n't quite believe it when we went into the top entrance of OFD II and it opened into wide open spaces where it was easy to walk at full height . |
| 30 | But it was a case of suits it 's a case of actually it was here where it was easy to get a flat than places anywhere else , it was a case of less waiting |