Example sentences of "and [conj] the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be blunt I was ready to let him know I was aware how he was using the Post and where the money was going . ’ |
| 2 | Later the same morning Aitken went to Yorkshire Television 's headquarters in Leeds , where for the two years previously he had had some contacts and where the company was planning a documentary film on Biafra . |
| 3 | In most areas , the votes of mentally handicapped people may make little difference but in very marginal constituencies , such as Brecon and Radnor , where there are approximately 250 people with a severe mental handicap and where the majority was only 56 at the last election , the voting patterns of even small populations could have a crucial effect . |
| 4 | The older tradition of semiotic anthropology , in which objects were said to represent fixed denotations for a given society , based only on synchronic structure and with little consideration of when and where the interpretation was taking place , seems to be invalidated by these further considerations . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of the statements were found to be biased : this was particularly evident when developers had not used outside consultants to prepare the statements , and where the developer was also the planning authority . |
| 6 | Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities , where voluntary organizations had been most active , and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment . |
| 7 | And where the devil was Lachlan ? |
| 8 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
| 9 | The Spanish House of Lords , a product of Jovellanos 's correspondence with Lord Holland , seemed an artificial piece of antiquarianism in a country which had enjoyed no constitutional life since the sixteenth century and where the aristocracy were suspect as indifferent patriots . |
| 10 | The concept of a centre of government in early Anglo-Saxon England , though , is nonsense as the king would travel around his kingdom , and where the king was , the government was . |
| 11 | At 17/971 , first right through the archway are the remains of the Monastery and Church of St Michael , an important church for the followers of Jan Hus , where many of his friends preached and where the sacrament was given sub utraque specie , in both kinds ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 12 | Oh oh yes they yes they would stay under a road bridge too because you would see the er er if you would look a a bridge and they would say oh there 's a tramp there 's a place there if you could tell me and you would see the rocks put up and where the bed was always above water level oh yes . |
| 13 | Although Scotty is reputed to have recorded over 500 sides with Elvis , it 's those early sessions which evoke the most passion : Phillips ' Sun recordings where Presley was at his raw best and where the band was allowed to gel , with improvisation and vitality the order of the day . |
| 14 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 15 | His first recorded project in Cambridge was the building of the west range of Clare College ( 1669–76 ) , where Thomas Grumbold had worked previously and where the design was probably the joint work of Grumbold , a ‘ surveyor ’ called Jackson , and the college authorities . |
| 16 | Also a description of how and where the boat was made . |
| 17 | Chief Judge Platt then directed the government to search for documents bearing on how and where the bomb was placed on Flight 103 and on warnings received by the government before the night of the disaster . |
| 18 | After advising counsel for the government that Washington could not keep on withholding relevant evidence , Chief Judge Platt ordered the government to produce all documents relating to how and where the bomb was placed on Flight 103 for inspection in camera by 1 October 1990 . |
| 19 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 20 | It is also likely that the composition of the lacquer is affected by the age of the tree and when and where the material was collected . |
| 21 | Make sure that there is adequate follow-up included in the deal so that you will know how and where the tape was used and can assess its value for future PR programmes . |
| 22 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 23 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 24 | Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ . |
| 25 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 26 | He reported that the Isle of Wight was not guarded , and that the king was to send a powerful embassy to the German king . |
| 27 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 28 | Where the initial contact is by telephone , it may be possible to satisfy a court that no contract was made on the telephone , and that the contract was governed by standard terms sent after the initial telephone contact . |
| 29 | There were reports that the royal palace in the capital , Maseru , had on that day been surrounded by armed troops , and that the Army was patrolling the town , but Lekhanya on Feb. 22 denied that the King had been placed under house arrest . |
| 30 | The latest of these was contained in the Immigration Act of 1988 , which requires anyone wishing to bring their family to this country to demonstrate that there is support and accommodation available and that the marriage was not entered into primarily for immigration reasons . |