Example sentences of "[conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 31 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 32 | Also , he had Amy 's body sent down to Worcester College , Oxford , where it was interned with costly pageantry and ostentation . |
| 33 | However , even where it was acknowledged to be still relevant — in the colonies of the European empires — the Congress of the International was no more clear . |
| 34 | Nor did the Israelis in the market by the Jaffa clock-tower have any idea where it was . |
| 35 | Although wool was not usually graded , Furness wool was listed as ‘ worst , medium , best , ’ and it went far afield by pack horses to London and Southampton , where it was exported to France and the Low Countries . |
| 36 | Wordsworth also gives a description of a family spinning in the sunshine in The Brothers , but the Lake District has a higher than average rainfall and in wet and windy weather spinners no doubt sought shelter where it was available . |
| 37 | In general , Labour seemed relatively to suffer from high poll tax levels even where it was not in control of the council . |
| 38 | Everyone knew when and where it was , but nothing more . |
| 39 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 40 | Two years after the stroke , Esther still had very severe associated reactions in her left arm , which interfered with her activities : the arm would always be in her way and never where it was needed . |
| 41 | On one occasion , the RUC stopped a bus containing members of a Protestant apprentice boys band , 30 miles from the largely Catholic town where it was their intention to march . |
| 42 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |
| 45 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 46 | It was single track with passing loops , except from Warley Road to the Gynn , where it was double-single controlled by signals . |
| 47 | In 1972 , 166 was donated to the National Tramway Museum , where it was beautifully restored to its original condition . |
| 48 | It is the danger of imposing reason and order where it was not always present . |
| 49 | The breed was largely restricted to its light-soiled native area in East Anglia , especially on the poorer , sandy Suffolk lands where it was so well adapted to living on sparse , low-quality grazing that on good pasture it would grow too much and become coarse in the bone . |
| 50 | The current was strongest along the far bank and gradually lessened in strength until it reached a couple of yards from our bank , where it was almost slack . |
| 51 | a kind of dessert apple ; often ‘ Ribston ’ , from the Ribston Park , Yorkshire , where it was bred . |
| 52 | Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up , as a terminal moraine . |
| 53 | All in all , the juvenile labour exchange legislation served to institutionalize the transition from school to full-time employment , and in so doing provided it with priests and rituals ; the transition became a rite de passage and , therefore , brought this aspect of the adolescent 's life into a formal arena where it was subject to critical scrutiny . |
| 54 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |
| 55 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 56 | But , privatization had not dramatically affected core areas of local government activity by the end of the 1980s , and in those areas where it was implemented it seemed unlikely significantly to undermine bureaucratic power . |
| 57 | They were prepared to discover the intention to establish such a legal relationship in facts , to construe a trust where it was clear that this was necessary to validate the testator 's intentions even though he had not realized this requirement himself . |
| 58 | The timber arrived in the finishing shop and was machined by the aid of jigs and stops , passing from machine to adjacent benches where it was fitted together . |
| 59 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 60 | Later it was reintroduced — but only to spray on cotton crops , where it was especially valuable because pests are resistant to DDT . |