Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 2 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |
| 3 | Where I was last night , and so on . |
| 4 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 5 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 6 | Bryony come back where you were clever girl . |
| 7 | ‘ That where you were last night ? ’ |
| 8 | Is that where you were this morning ? |
| 9 | Although the unit obviously benefits girls who have tended either not to do very well in school , or who were regular truants , there is a tendency for more scholastically-minded girls to do worse educationally than they would have in school . |
| 10 | The hybrid babies that were born would likewise hypnotize their parents to perceive beauty where there was twisted ugliness … |
| 11 | Of the many contacts explored , the most fruitful early collaboration came from the United States Department of Agriculture 's North Regional Research Laboratory at Peoria , Illinois , where there was much experience of culturing micro-organisms . |
| 12 | Gershuny 's conclusion is that as new technology continues to be introduced we are likely to move to a ‘ dual economy ’ in which there would still be a formal sector of the economy , where there was much use of high technology , a continuing drive for efficiency , and the production of standardised goods , but this sector would increasingly concentrate on the production of consumer durables — in essence capital goods for use in the home . |
| 13 | He enjoyed his social life with leading intellectuals and noblemen , where there was much debate , all without rancour . |
| 14 | Heating , for example , remained primitive ; that is , there were open fires in the rooms except in the private Imperial apartments , where there was central heating . |
| 15 | She went round to Liese 's instead , where there was central heating . |
| 16 | During April Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , the largest party in the governing federal centre-right coalition , was shaken by losses in two Länd ( state ) elections , by public-sector strikes in western Germany , where there was increasing resentment over the cost of government measures to fund the restructuring of the economy in the east , and by the resignation of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) , after 23 years in the Cabinet . |
| 17 | Where there was one mid-week housegroup there are now six and we have a common goal of raising this number to ten such groups by the end of the year . |
| 18 | Discipline was ideally internal to households ( where there was legitimate authority ) : from outsiders , discipline implied social superiority , an authority over people which Zuwaya did not accept from one another , still less from foreigners . |
| 19 | In the new cities , where there was scant room for the living , there was even less room for the dead . |
| 20 | This suggests the significance of specialist workers in two possible ways : either preventing compulsion where there was insufficient risk to the patient or others , or persuading those who would otherwise have been sectioned to enter hospital informally . |
| 21 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 22 | While welcoming the news of the developments in Lancashire , shop stewards at the Albion axle works in Glasgow said that did not alter the position at their factory , where there was little likelihood of a similar buy-out . |
| 23 | In some parts of Wales , south-west , and northern England small town populations increased because of a local retreat from rural areas where there was little employment apart from agriculture , much of which was in a depressed state . |
| 24 | Here on the islands , where there was little vegetation , one species fed on seaweed and clung to rocks among the surging waves with unusually long and powerful claws . |
| 25 | Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was . |
| 26 | At the Birmingham summit EC leaders confirmed their support for early ratification of the Treaty without renegotiation , and sought to introduce greater transparency into the working of the EC in order to win the support of citizens , especially in Denmark and the UK where there was greatest opposition to ratification . |
| 27 | I mean you would n't wan na go anywhere where there was confidential things . |
| 28 | Financial limitations and unwillingness to sell made new players increasingly hard to find , in an area where , as Chapman pointed out , industrial conditions were not conducive to home-grown talent , and where there was strong competition from rugby . |
| 29 | Where there was significant progress the headteacher 's influence was central . |
| 30 | In the end we arrived at another plastic wall where there was another door . |