Example sentences of "[conj] it was " in BNC.

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1 just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ .
2 But seeing it was never enough .
3 I had to find where it was .
4 The name stems from the fact that it was once exported to imperial Russia where it was popular with the Czarist court .
5 The developer was eventually defeated through the planning system , where it was decided that the pub amounted to an important social amenity .
6 Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago .
7 I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’
8 Returning to ‘ Ancient Buildings : And the City Churches ’ , he stressed the need to preserve the Church 's role in society , particularly where it was threatened by urban secularization .
9 China , Rachel had told Maggie , was the place for dragons , where it was hot , and where in the villages great paper ones were paraded with veneration .
10 In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ .
11 Asphalt was often used as a flat-roof surface in older buildings in locations where it was appreciated that a sheet-metal covering would prove unsuitable because of the very large area of roof or where regular foot traffic was anticipated .
12 Where it was used to coat a sloping surface , it is likely that defects will emerge , inviting water penetration , because the material tends to ‘ creep ’ under its self-weight .
13 A Short Film About Killing ( Decalogue V ) marked its premiere at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Jury and International Film Critic 's prize .
14 Mr Sells said data emerging from hospitals in Madras was offering an alternative where it was impractical and too expensive to treat large numbers of patients on dialysis machines .
15 THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August .
16 This was the first experience where it was obvious that the machine was working against itself — something was n't quite right .
17 ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’
18 But this equitable separate estate existed only where it was created by a will or settlement , or in the comparatively rare cases where the Court of Chancery exercised its jurisdiction to compel a husband to make a settlement upon his wife .
19 I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five .
20 Apart from the coal areas , where sympathetic strike action was strongly evident , and the rural areas , where it was not , the rest of the country displayed immense diversity .
21 Previously , he had merely submitted the name of the person chosen by his committee to Downing Street , where it was rubber-stamped .
22 Where it was still highly risky and dangerous to speak negatively of the Führer , people frequently vented their wrath on the Party and its representatives .
23 I knew the Swiss Ambassador , who had a country residence where it was possible to ride and relax .
24 He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers .
25 It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place .
26 When posted to France he donated the bear to London Zoo where it was admired by Milne , who was inspired to name his fictional creation after the little fellow .
27 At the other extreme was a father and son dairy farm where it was claimed that each was working 110 hours per week .
28 Italy also managed to occupy British Somaliland , in East Africa , but lost battles in the western desert areas of Egypt , in February 1941 ; also in East Africa , before the end of 1941 , where it was possible to re-establish the Emperor of Ethiopia .
29 For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet .
30 ‘ It 's very tender where it was n't before . ’
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