Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you forgotten the farms I went to in the Hampshire practice where I was a locum ? |
| 2 | In my last job I used to look after the animals in a large zoo near the practice , where I was an assistant . |
| 3 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 4 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 5 | Casares-Roach had moved to England in 1968 , and had a multitude of contacts through her trade-union activities , especially in the T and G , where she was a member of one of the national committees . |
| 6 | THE FAMILY of a woman who died of Legionnaires ' Disease victim are to sue health chiefs at the Merseyside hospital where she was a patient . |
| 7 | SINGER Cathy Dennis , above , has just returned from Houston , Texas , where she was a guest of honour at America 's largest Thanksgiving Day parade . |
| 8 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 9 | In schools where there was no committee , librarians seemed to have reverted to traditional allegiances ( e.g. with the English department ) and were " going it alone " as before , though undoubtedly in a rather more fertile and responsive climate , and in some cases with a slightly enhanced allocation of free periods . |
| 10 | Benefits of the new system are that orders are processed quicker , improving cashflow ; company stock figures are up to date and correct , instead of being hypothetical ; surplus stock is being used up ; a system has been created where there was no system , and the scheme has boosted customer satisfaction . |
| 11 | The shortfall was being met by imported eggs from countries where there was no testing or compulsory slaughter of infected flocks . |
| 12 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 13 | The man who in 1788 wrote the pamphlet New Candid and Practical Thoughts on the Law of Imprisonment for Debt & c , shared the attitude of the majority in condemning the ability of a creditor to confine his debtor where there was no question of fraud or abuse of credit . |
| 14 | As a pioneer , he wanted to go where there was no church . |
| 15 | But even in areas where there was no hubris in the initial claims , the results delivered have often been disappointing . |
| 16 | Where there was no division , one or both teachers started the session off , then both moved freely round the whole class . |
| 17 | It was Annabel 's friendship and her acceptance by the Kirkley family that really kept her in the House of Christ the Saviour , where there was no laughter except in the kitchen with Sister Cecilia and sometimes a covert smile from Sister Aloysius . |
| 18 | As soon as they were in the train , in a rather crowded car where there was no chance of a seat , Jasper understood what he had to do . |
| 19 | They had found a small restaurant away from the theatre circuit where there was no chance of bumping into Gesner . |
| 20 | I walked out of the sea and on to a beach , where there was no sign of any people or houses . |
| 21 | Once the notion of trust had become divorced from that of dependence on a testamentary heir ( which seems very soon to have happened ) , the way was open to set up trusts charged on beneficiaries under the will other than the heir , or even on persons who benefited where there was no will at all . |
| 22 | 4 Scaffolding The right to erect scaffolding for [ any purpose connected with or related to the Centre or the purpose of repairing or cleaning the Centre ] notwithstanding that such scaffolding may temporarily restrict the access to or use and enjoyment of the Premises This right is included in order to overcome the problem resulting from Owen v Gadd where the Court of Appeal held that the construction of scaffolding poles in front of a shop , where there was no reservation of such a right , infringed the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment . |
| 23 | After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property . |
| 24 | Because their environment had been reduced the pandas had no alternative but to remain where there was no food . |
| 25 | In other cases involving schools but where there was no report of any request by the judge , coverage split fairly evenly between occasions when the school was named and those where it was not . |
| 26 | erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough . |
| 27 | One can actually see on this trace a period here where there was no airflow , so in this particular period the subject would not be breathing . |
| 28 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 29 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 30 | I also showed how to arrive at a successful transfer price where there was no market for the intermediate product . |