Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years of industrial strife had ensured that an industry where we were once world leaders was an object of pity and derision . |
| 2 | This was followed by White Shops , next to the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital , where there were also bus stops and two schools but no crossing patrol , which was withdrawn several years ago . |
| 3 | The first Alpine skiers were regarded as rather eccentric , but the sport gradually took hold where there were already mountain resorts such as Davos in Switzerland . |
| 4 | How could she compare the task of dusting and polishing the magnificent English furniture to the drudgery of cleaning our house , where there were only tom rags , a broom and a pail of water , and you had to go down on your knees to scrub the floor and do the endless piles of washing by hand ? |
| 5 | This produced different social patterns from those of , say , south-eastern Europe , where there were still peasants who remembered Robot , the servile labour service surviving from the feudal era , and who lived in a poverty like that of Calabria or the Guadalquivir valley . |
| 6 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |
| 7 | Where there were once kingfishers , bullrushes and reeds , there is now dry , parched land . ’ |
| 8 | Where there were once classes , whose members had a consciousness of kind , a common way of life and shared interests , there is now an unbroken continuum of occupational statuses which command varying degrees of prestige and economic reward . |
| 9 | Aldrich and Brown — find out where they were yesterday afternoon . |
| 10 | These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations . |
| 11 | Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 12 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 13 | He was in many ways a remarkable Prime Minister , although there were obviously faults — and some grave faults — that history alone will assess in determining whether or not he ranks among the greats . |
| 14 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 15 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 16 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 17 | It was foolish , even stupid ; it was n't as if we were even contenders for a medal . |
| 18 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 19 | Yet every leading member of the Government and the Opposition talks as if we were merely bankers . |
| 20 | Would we be having this conversation if we were still lovers ? |
| 21 | It looked like there were just fortunes being spent , which there were , but no-one could quite figure out where the money was coming from , or why this money was being spent in this way . |
| 22 | This was because the higher pressures and temperatures required more advanced materials engineering , which was often only worthwhile if there were also economies of scale ( the 200MW sets with advanced steam conditions built later , for example , used less than half as much steel per MW as the simple 30MW sets the BEA were installing ) . |
| 23 | I met an old Jew there who had left Prague thirty years before and he asked me if there were still whores in Wenceslas Square ? |
| 24 | The cleaners were n't here yet : she was alone on this floor , even if there were still people working in the offices above and below . |
| 25 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 26 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 27 | The point is that we can not circumnavigate or dispose of these problems by resorting to the familiar logical ploy of treating questions about experiences as if they were simply questions about the logical properties of sentences in which we ordinarily talk about experiences . |
| 28 | Nor is it sensible to flee from farming and treat farmers as if they were simply game-wardens or wood-rangers or park-keepers . |
| 29 | Outside people talk about prisoners missing physical sex and the need for conjugal visits as if they were just animals who needed relief from tension . |
| 30 | If they were truly savages . |