Example sentences of "[was/were] there [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As curiosities , these few loathsome relics are no doubt both valuable and interesting , but were there a heap of such dry rubbish , one would feel strongly disposed to make a bonfire of the whole , for it looks nothing fit for anything else . |
| 2 | Were , were there a lot of erm sort of small workshops like yours , a few years ago when you |
| 3 | Were there a lot of air raids at that time ? |
| 4 | were there a number of brochures therefore printed sir ? |
| 5 | Mr Kerrigan asked : ‘ Were there a lot of happy beaming employees high on drugs , greeting customers in the most amicable fashion , grinning from one ear to the other because they were so relaxed with the drugs ? ’ |
| 6 | Were the markets , erm were there a lot of stalls in the markets ? |
| 7 | Were there a lot of these er particularly amongst the older men and the and the inspectors and that that kind of thing , were there a And you 've talked about , a lot of the old ideas were still |
| 8 | Were there a lot of these er particularly amongst the older men and the and the inspectors and that that kind of thing , were there a And you 've talked about , a lot of the old ideas were still |
| 9 | Were there a lot of other servants as well ? |
| 10 | Did you all go swimming or were there a lot of you not going today ? |
| 11 | Not only were there no great causes left , as Look Back in Anger would have it . |
| 12 | The White House seemed unaware that not only were there no hostages , but that the trapped Americans were heavily-armed , elite troops trained to protect themselves in just such circumstances . |
| 13 | Why were there no signs of violence ? |
| 14 | Only in Speyside and South Wales were there no farms incurring a loss , whilst Orkney had the lowest number making a pro fit — 42% . |
| 15 | Were there no clues to what was really happening ? |
| 16 | Why were there no policemen on the airport floor ? |
| 17 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 18 | Why were there no more Jewish families willing to take in refugee children ? |
| 19 | Were there no slaves sold in Jamaica … no sugar bought ? |
| 20 | There would be no epistemic appearances were there no such beings . |
| 21 | ‘ Not only were there no training programmes or recognition of skills , ’ recalls Gauntlett , ‘ there was no personnel department for 400 workers . |
| 22 | Conceivably , if the revolt had spread to take in substantial parts of the country then , to anticipate Maoist precepts of the future , the countryside would have surrounded the cities ; but at this time not only were there no ‘ sympathetic detonations ’ in other parts of the country but there was practically no challenge whatever to French power in the cities . |
| 23 | Why were there no hot compresses on his limbs ? |
| 24 | Why were there no financial records for 1887 and 1888 ? |
| 25 | Were there no jobs sort of in between the director and the |
| 26 | All the we had we did this week or were there no draws ? |
| 27 | ‘ W-was there a car crash — or did I dream it ? ’ she asked softly . |
| 28 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 29 | Was there a contingency plan to cover the loss of McGrath , Moran and Staunton ? |
| 30 | Was there a vote ? |