Example sentences of "where [noun] [modal v] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that 's the place where traitors ought to be . |
| 2 | I even passed a couple of oast houses where hops used to be dried after being picked by families of East Enders for a pittance and a daily beer ration . |
| 3 | My throat would itch with the dust of doves who enquired and conversed on the same few notes , while the heavy ticking of the estate clock at the top of a rotting ladder reverberated around the eight chalk walls where game used to be hung . |
| 4 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 5 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |
| 6 | Indeed , to speak of interests at all provokes confusion , for it suggests that these interests pre-exist the determination of the question where liabilities ought to be created according to distributive principles . |
| 7 | The best example is California — the shift of population from the countryside to the cities meant more cars , more houses where orchards used to be , less clean air , fewer clean lakes and rivers , etc . |