Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 2 | We had already negotiated long stretches of the Cherwell where we were completely hidden from view . |
| 3 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 4 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 5 | The Central gig was the first one where we were actually allowed to play our own set all the way through . |
| 6 | After church , if it was winter , we went straight home where we were often joined by some of Mum 's old friends , mostly unmarried . |
| 7 | On Aug. 26 some 150 immigrants from Ethiopia were persuaded to abandon a march and hunger strike they had begun in protest at overcrowding in the Ashkelon holiday village where they were temporarily housed . |
| 8 | The paediatric S.H.O. glanced around the room , but the only other occupants formed a tightly-knit group in the opposite corner , where they were loudly debating an ethical issue . |
| 9 | For the remainder it was back to Milford Station where they were probably penned overnight on the extremely wide platforms , before dispatch the next day in newly lime-washed trucks . |
| 10 | Her hopes for their return to the Lake District were finally realized ‘ home at Grasmere ’ , in the workaday setting of Dove Cottage ( 1799 ) , where they were soon joined by the Coleridges and Robert Southey [ q.v. ] and his wife from Keswick , and later by Thomas De Quincey [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | After their arrest , Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved and the others were detained in Evin Prison , Tehran , where they were reportedly put under pressure to sign statements condemning their actions . |
| 12 | Babies were often sent away to be nursed in rural parishes where they were ill fed , overcrowded , and quieted with opiates ( see Fildes 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Thus , reading right-wing papers had most effect upon increasing Thatcher 's ratings on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and depressing Kinnock 's ratings on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 14 | Reading right-wing papers had most effect upon improving Thatcher 's image on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and damaging Kinnock 's image on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 15 | The majority of unmarried mothers were forced to enter the workhouse hospital for their confinements , where they were virtually imprisoned for a two-week period . |
| 16 | It emerged that all four had gone to Spence 's house on various occasions where they were sexually abused and some were photographed . |
| 17 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 18 | Stateless societies are for the most part small tribal societies , without any complex division of labour and economically poor , but some features of their political systems may perhaps also be found in other types of society , especially in village communities such as those of medieval Germany , or of India ( where they were once described as ‘ little republics ’ ) , although in these instances there is already some degree of subordination to a state , however remote , and some element of stratification and inequality of power in the local community itself . |
| 19 | Falkenhayn was obliged to gather German reinforcements from wherever he could : three divisions from the north of the front , more from reserves , and four from the Western Front , where they were sorely needed . |
| 20 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 21 | At least 80 civilians and army officers , arrested in August 1991 on suspicion of plotting a coup , were held in secret detention centres known as ‘ ghost houses ’ where they were severely tortured . |
| 22 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 23 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 24 | Young nomes filled the control-room , where they were industriously trying to press buttons . |
| 25 | In a general practice in north Edinburgh , between 1987 and 1989 , 265 injecting drug users were asked if they had any children and , if so , when they had been born and where they were currently living . |
| 26 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 27 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 28 | I suppose you 'll be telling me next that most normal people would immediately assume that you were here to discuss the state of French politics ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You are saying that you were again relegated to second place , my lord ? ’ |
| 30 | And that 's another one , you know : she would die of shame if she knew that you were even looking at a Felton , never mind expressing affection for one . |