Example sentences of "there [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there were the republican parties who focused their attention on Westminster elections . |
| 2 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 3 | There were the Logan brothers from Moness , watchful , keeping to themselves . |
| 4 | There were the bank recruitment stands ( 'If you give us all your money , we will let you queue in our bank when we 're open , and outside when we 're not ! ' ) and the MI5 stall ( 'Ever thought about Intelligence ? |
| 5 | And then there were the games with Newbridge ( won unconvincingly ) and Bridgend ( lost disastrously ) . |
| 6 | Next morning at ‘ stand-to' ’ there were the usual reports of wounded which were backed up by the increased activity of the jeeps carrying the casualties to the rear , among them several Airborne troops . |
| 7 | Then there were the mass flights from the industrial cities of European Russia after 1917 , besides many regional movements too numerous to mention . |
| 8 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 9 | Then there were the Garden City Trusts , such as Welwyn , Hampstead and Letchworth . |
| 10 | Then there were the sweeping layers of thin gauzy curtains that swished elegantly back to reveal the screen . |
| 11 | As a kid the scale of the film images was frightening , and then there were the myriads of dots , scratches and lines , accompanied by clicks and plops on the soundtrack . |
| 12 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 13 | There were the cowboy ones — two rough riders facing each other with their enormous dicks hanging out in front of them like door handles with a caption . |
| 14 | first , there were the press lords , Beaverbrook and Rothermere . |
| 15 | The earth on her fingers sung to her and she could hear the rhythm of the seasons , the wobbling journey of her planet through space , which gave the earth its sides and turns , and within that there were the smaller rhythms of her rake , of her tractor engine , of her trowel and of her brain . |
| 16 | In the two bars , and on the bridge and football field where the men gathered in the evening , there were the coarse shouts of ‘ Sink log ! |
| 17 | Conditions there were the sort with which Asian women everywhere in Britain are familiar . |
| 18 | Then there were the sheer indignities of a professional cricketer 's life — the separate entrances , changing facilities , menial jobs to do around the club , even the placing of the man 's initials after his surname to signify servile status . |
| 19 | The things which were there were the objects by which someone might be identified . |
| 20 | Beside the surrealists , there were the groups known as the Bande a Prevert ( poets , mainly ) , the Famille Sartre ( which included Greco ) , the commmunists , the painters , the existentialists , and such minor gatherings as the lettristes , followers of the self-styled genius and concrete-poetry manufacturer , Isidore Isou . |
| 21 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 22 | There were the three figures , standing in the doorway of the cottage , watching them go . |
| 23 | There were the lights of the town behind me , lights along the distant main road , lights up the hill from an occasional house , continuing with the lights of my own road . |
| 24 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 25 | Then there were the guest appearances in videos by 3rd Base , Public Enemy and Run DMC — now comes ‘ Kickin' Afrolistics ’ , the debut album on Jam Master Jay 's Def Jam offshoot JMJ . |
| 26 | Only , of course , there were the plans to make for her grocery stall , people to see , the same plans as last year , and year upon year before that , the same people , the same questions , the anticipated replies for help . |
| 27 | Then there were the courtiers , the greatest of whom was her husband , Denis . |
| 28 | First there were the stories that Kylie was in fact a complete fabrication . |
| 29 | Then there were the stories of her rows with her jealous younger sister Dannii and her painful ordeal suffering from the slimmers ’ disease anorexia nervosa . |
| 30 | The genealogy of the other lineages confirmed the exchange of women to make peace , for there were the reciprocal brides , carefully placed , isolated in a line of men . |