Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way home , filled with an indigestible mixture of relief and regret , Peter observed that there were removal vans once again outside Loxford Old Rectory . |
| 2 | The farmers ' wives played an active role in Germany particularly if there were dairy cows or other stock . |
| 3 | Even then , there were land development issues associated with local state support for the new system of owner-occupation but , in comparison with developments after 1975 , the 1930s seem to have been a period during which previous social forms were suspended rather than transformed . |
| 4 | In fact a more realistic explanation for the laying out of the garden is that at the end of the Napoleonic wars there were alot of unemployed soldiers looking for work . |
| 5 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
| 6 | There were wicker chairs in the dark bar ; in one of them a soldier stretched out , snoring . |
| 7 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 8 | In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) . |
| 9 | But there were life readings in the walls , floors and turbine-generators within the factory itself . |
| 10 | There were craft workshops , shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community . |
| 11 | There were banana gardens and pawpaw trees , and outriggers lazed on the lagoon . |
| 12 | For the Scots there were tour places to Australia up for grabs : for the Welsh there was the need to secure the appointment of Davies and Norster by winning . |
| 13 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 14 | In ninety two there were redundancy costs to some extent offset by some er savings in payroll , there 'll by no redundancy cost relating to those previous redundancies in ninety three , but there will be the full saving on the payroll . |
| 15 | There were music rooms , hairdressing salons , beauty parlours , libraries , laundries , chapels , theatres , ballrooms , nurseries , and gymnasiums and health clubs armed with equipment which by modern standards appear more intent on medieval torture than health improvement . |
| 16 | Here there were music and dancing , tournaments and troubadours , talk of knight-errantry and courtly love . |
| 17 | Though in the early days there were capacity problems at Gloucester , by and large the new arrangements have worked well . |
| 18 | Inside the office there were midget desks and a huge plans chest and a poster about putting fires out and another that showed two wooden-faced men and artificial respiration . |
| 19 | There were dialect pieces and local banter along with information on how a particular local player had performed a couple of hundred miles away . |
| 20 | There were engine fitters , electricians , riggers and er course there were sheet metal workers as well working in aluminium and pop rivets er there was er also a government inspection department and a works inspection department and er things and da the Air Ministry had to be very up to scratch you know erm |
| 21 | However , this discovery greatly strengthened the hypothesis that there were alpha and beta receptors , and the idea at least became widely accepted . |
| 22 | There were hairpin bends and soon we were lipping the edge of a two-thousand-foot drop , the river below occasionally glimpsed through ragged wind-torn holes in the cloud . |
| 23 | There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s , with stone-throwing anarchists running amok . |
| 24 | But oil traders said there would be no immediate impact as there were storage facilities with at least eight days supply at both ends of the pipeline system . |
| 25 | There were credit marks too for the silver haired John Boston . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course there were winter balls , too , ’ Eleanor said . |
| 27 | I was told that there were winter sledge tracks from the town to the Sea of Okhotsk , to Vilyuisk , the Kolyma river and to Irkutsk , some 1,200 miles away . |
| 28 | And there were oak trees stood up there ; and it snapped three of 'em off just like snapping a match . |
| 29 | There were alarm bells ringing in Edward 's skull . |
| 30 | There were brass ashtrays , coat-hooks , a mirror where Gloria would be able to do her hair , an overhead net to store things . |