Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 2 | Regions are also allowed to change the boundaries of protected areas , thereby allowing hunting in areas where it was previously banned . |
| 3 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 4 | American news coverage of the 1960s riots first came under academic scrutiny in the aftermath of the Watts riot , where it was generally felt that media reporting had exacerbated the conflict . |
| 5 | The hearing was held at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court where it was eventually decided that there was a case to answer , and Bogdanov was committed for trial . |
| 6 | Glanville Jones ' ideas were based initially on studies of medieval Wales , where it was formerly assumed that a dispersed settlement pattern of pastoral farms had been the norm . |
| 7 | This was forgotten by the draftsman in British Railways Board v Elgar House Ltd ( 1969 ) 209 EG 1313 , where it was nevertheless held that for the purposes of the rent calculation parts of the demised property occupied by the headtenant should be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 8 | An intelligent human would know enough not to go , um , where it was n't wanted , ’ said Nisodemus sourly . |
| 9 | The villagers and their plaster statue were pursued across Penhill , the statue being damaged on the way and burnt at Grassgill End where it was finally captured . |
| 10 | In 1972 , 166 was donated to the National Tramway Museum , where it was beautifully restored to its original condition . |
| 11 | The discovery of a bird when and where it was least expected can be a magical experience . |
| 12 | All the ingredients were there , and it just took off — I was never quite sure where it was all going , and that 's just how it should be . |
| 13 | However , the sea air deteriorated the steel work and it was offered on loan to the MRT where it was cosmetically restored and placed on display . |
| 14 | Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction ; where it was never meant to be . |
| 15 | Her glance flew to the Jaguar , parked where it was always parked these days , and a hint of a smile warmed her mouth . |
| 16 | Normally this rests in a make shift shed out the back beside the running lines to Fareham but during the recent works holiday and over more recent weekends it is pushed into the erecting shop where it was originally built 65 years ago . |
| 17 | Clashes and scores of casualties continued elsewhere in south-east Turkey , where it was now estimated that about one-third of the Turkish army , or 150,000 troops , were deployed . |
| 18 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 19 | An anti-Nazi lawyer , Serge Klarsfeld , discovered in mid-November that a Second World War filedrawn up by French police in October 1940 on the instructions of the Gestapo and containing information on all Jewish people in Paris was still in existence at the Ministry of War Veterans , where it was apparently used to check pension claims . |
| 20 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 21 | When it became obvious that the strike was n't going to last a fortnight or it was n't going to last a month . |
| 22 | In 1963 , having perhaps insulted one Prime Minister too many in the run-up to a general election , TW3 was taken off the air , although it was stoutly defended by Hugh Greene . |
| 23 | Although it was later denied any truth by Wolfenden , it has been suggested that the immediate post-war period witnessed a ‘ witch-hunt ’ or ‘ purge ’ of homosexuals . |
| 24 | Rob Andrew went off with a bang on the nose which needed an X-ray , although it was later revealed that there was no fracture , while his replacement Stuart Barnes had 12 stitches in a head wound caused by a stray boot . |
| 25 | They escaped with the vehicle although it was later found with its contents , forty thousand pounds worth of clothing , still inside . |
| 26 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 27 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 28 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 29 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 30 | It was hoped that the fund would raise some 6,000 million forints ( about US$80,000,000 ) in 1991/1992 , although it was widely predicted that this would be insufficient to provide for the estimated 300,000 unemployed in Hungary . |