Example sentences of "[conj] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the publication of er draft figures , I discussed these with the districts , and where it was felt appropriate to take on board s er suggestions made by the districts , this was done . |
| 2 | They also held that where it was observed it was unduly restrictive . |
| 3 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 4 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 5 | His voice was still the same , although she could see the silver ball in his throat where it was generated . |
| 6 | AN experimental Dambusters ‘ bouncing bomb ’ will be raised by helicopter tomorrow from waters where it was tested nearly 50 years ago . |
| 7 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 8 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 11 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 12 | Britain 's position within the international division of labour and its trade balance were examined in Chapter 1 , where it was seen that there have indeed been major shifts over the post-war period . |
| 13 | However , her lack of confidence was shown in her reluctance to exhibit or even sign the work she sent to the London Group , where it was seen and admired by André Derain . |
| 14 | To meet such situations Younger proposed a new offence of ‘ unlawful surveillance by device ’ where it was done surreptitiously . |
| 15 | At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception . |
| 16 | Such a bust was a feature of the strip of mosaic between rooms 3 and 4 at Newton St. Loe ( where it was bordered by a scroll pattern , comparable to the decoration either side of the chirho monogram in a pavement from Frampton , Dorset ( Lysons I ( 1813 ) , iii , pI . |
| 17 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 18 | At present the system is available only in the UK — where it was developed . |
| 19 | A new compressor for fridges and air conditioners could reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the USA , where it was developed , by the equivalent of taking 2 million cars off the road . |
| 20 | It was said that ‘ Mr Eame excells in the laying out Water ’ and he was called in to introduce it into landscapes where it was lacking , as at Hawkstone , where he made the River Hawk , a lake one and a half miles long , in 1786 . |
| 21 | Indeed , this issue was addressed in an earlier study ( Tomkins , 1973 , pp. 115–21 ) , where it was illustrated how it was possible to devise an investment-appraisal rule ( just like that above ) consistent with NPV but based on residual income even when the project cash flows were uneven through time — although it was felt that NPV was more straightforward . |
| 22 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 23 | The Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne lived a tortured sex life , heavily influenced by the beatings he received at Eton ( where it was said the boys were required to sprinkle eau de cologne on themselves before the canings began ) . |
| 24 | A 17-year-old paper-stainer , James Irons , was brought before the magistrate — described by the police as a ring-leader and by his mother as ‘ a good boy ’ — where it was said that he had ‘ used disgusting language , and discharged a number of stones larger than walnuts from a powerful catapult ’ . |
| 25 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 26 | Meanwhile on April 25 the National Assembly had unanimously approved a plan for the resettlement of 3,000-4,000 marsh Arabs in new settlements on the periphery of the marshlands , where it was said that they would have improved access to services . |
| 27 | An interlocutory injunction was sought , but not granted by the court , where it was said that there had been a breach , but that an injunction would not be granted on a balance of convenience . |
| 28 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 30 | The reason for this is clear in Collins MR 's judgment where it was said that , in the case of a purchase of goods capable of a multitude of purposes , in order to invoke the implied condition , it was necessary to show that the goods were sold with reference to a particular purpose : … in order to give rise to the implication of a warranty , it is necessary to show that , though the article sold was capable of general use for many purposes , in the particular case it was sold with reference to a particular purpose . |