Example sentences of "were [pron] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my , they were my any other businesses . |
| 2 | Were there any spillages ? |
| 3 | Were there any casualties ? ’ |
| 4 | Mrs Hollidaye was there too , and more gently than Gloria asked , ‘ Were there any more eggs in there , did you notice ? |
| 5 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 6 | Were there any choral conductors you especially admired ? |
| 7 | Nor were there any colourful bazaars , though there was a market where I later bought fruit , vegetables , eggs and three small glasses , the sort from which Algerians drink their coffee . |
| 8 | Without beating around the bush , Fred explained that Mr Miller had decided that the editorial staff must be reduced by one reporter , and were there any volunteers ? |
| 9 | The second thing is the not quite so obvious one of discovering if the present body is the first one of its kind to be set up in the locality , and were there any local organisations which once existed but no longing do so . |
| 10 | ‘ Were there any special women in his life recently ? ’ |
| 11 | As support and demand grows , were there any plans for expansion ? |
| 12 | Were there any upsets ? |
| 13 | It seems to sum up their philosophy perfectly , but were there any other reasons for the choice ? |
| 14 | Aerial photographs showed there was no boom protecting the dry-dock gate ( the caisson ‘ E ’ on diagram p. 41 ) nor were there any barbed-wire entanglements ashore on the quays . |
| 15 | Were there any hidden sand-bars a dozen yards from the beach , for a man could drown easily in the eight feet of water beyond them as in eighty ? |
| 16 | The then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young , decided that there were no grounds for referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ; nor were there any grounds for referring the Suchard holding in Rowntree , which had , by that time , been increased to 29.9 per cent . |
| 17 | ‘ Were there any eyewitnesses to the shooting ? ’ |
| 18 | Not until Catherine II deliberately established permanent provincial assemblies of the nobility ( 1785 ) were there any estate institutions in which pressure upon the central government might gather momentum — and even then the assemblies remained passive and ill-attended . |
| 19 | ‘ Were there any problems loading the cargo on to the train ? ’ |
| 20 | Were there any other lock manufacturers in Bloxwich itself ? |
| 21 | Were there any other lock manufacturers in Bloxwich itself ? |
| 22 | Were there any searchlight batteries or anything of that nature in Bloxwich ? |
| 23 | At no time were there any tensions or disputes over space , sharing of materials or any other potential points of conflict . |
| 24 | Now then , Assif was asking were there any side effects . |
| 25 | In brief then , there was no shortage of capital nor were there any institutional barriers to its being invested in the manufacturing industries in Britain . |
| 26 | ‘ Were there any sheep in the palace gardens ? ’ asked Cyril . |
| 27 | ‘ Were there any problems ? ’ |
| 28 | No longer were there any traditional visits to each other 's dressing-rooms . |
| 29 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 30 | — were there any errors of grammar or vocabulary ? |