Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryony come back where you were clever girl . |
| 2 | ‘ That where you were last night ? ’ |
| 3 | Is that where you were this morning ? |
| 4 | They also ran a tennis section , starting with one court ( later two ) at Almonds Green , West Derby and followed with hard courts at Tynwald Hill , Stoneycroft , and ‘ a super location at the tram terminus , Muirhead Avenue East , where there were six grass courts . ’ |
| 5 | Even in regions where there were more matter particles than average , the gravitational attraction of the matter would have been outweighed by the repulsion of the effective cosmological constant . |
| 6 | Certainly government influence had a powerful impact , and could normally secure the return of favoured candidates in constituencies where there were significant government installations ( such as the postal service at Harwich , or the dockyards at Plymouth , Portsmouth and the Cinque Ports ) . |
| 7 | The EAT said that where there were sound business reasons for reorganisation , then the question of reasonableness had to be looked at in the context of a reorganisation and not solely in the context of the offer of new terms and conditions . |
| 8 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 9 | Than you were last year , yeah . |
| 10 | If you 're clever — cleverer than you were last night — you can do as father says and have your English love . |
| 11 | ‘ So you were some distance from the hut . ’ |
| 12 | Although there were many Moor villages where rice cultivation was the principal economic activity , Moors were often pictured as traders and shopkeepers , and they had a strong presence in towns . |
| 13 | Although there were limited route transfers to British Caledonian before privatisation , BA was left as the dominant carrier and , at the time of privatisation , provided over three-quarters of British scheduled airline services . |
| 14 | This new phenomenon was n't quickly recognized in the literature and as recently as 1980 , White and Woods 's edited text ( 1980 ) , The Geographical Impact of Migration , included three lengthy index entries on rural depopulation , rural-rural migration and rural-urban migration , but nothing on rural repopulation or counterurbanization , although there were four index entries for return migration . |
| 15 | Although there were more colonialism in , in America than than we were in well are now anyway but er in , in a way that was the sort of impression . |
| 16 | Although there were some routine matters , such as the issue of legal writs , where it could act on its own initiative , for any matter of permanent importance it needed a warrant for its action from the Privy Seal or the Signet : usually only the former would be sufficient . |
| 17 | Another participant stated that although there were any number of matters in relation to Making Belfast Work about which criticisms could be made , you can not bite off the hand which feeds you . |
| 18 | My figures show that although there were 34,000 business failures in the first nine months of this year , every week 1,000 new businesses have come into existence under the enterprise allowance scheme alone . |
| 19 | The four-inch-wide gun slits let in plenty of light , although there were electric wall lights . |
| 20 | By 1994 , it is likely that there will be more business PCs attached to LANs than there were total business PCs two years ago . |
| 21 | But that 's been consistent because there are three thousand less nurses this year in the N H S than there were last year . |
| 22 | But that 's been consistent because there are three thousand less nurses this year in the N H S than there were last year . |
| 23 | Job vacancies are still 10,000 lower than they were this time last year . |
| 24 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 25 | Is there anything to make you believe that Poll Tax bills landing on people 's mats this time next year will be any nearer the estimate than they were last time . |
| 26 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 27 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 29 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 30 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |