Example sentences of "[subord] there were [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Plant Manager 's review indicates that by the end of that year , although there were still a number of issues to be resolved , the following results had been achieved ( Perry , 1984 : 191 ) :
2 So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in .
3 It would not be the national team if there were not a conundrum somewhere and Roxburgh will resist any clamour for the Jess generation to stage a youthful revolution .
4 If there were not an expectation that the spot price at delivery will be higher than the current price of the futures contract , it is argued that the number of those who wish to hold a short position ( for instance , producers of the underlying physical asset hedging their risks ) would exceed the number who wish to hold a long position in the futures contract ( for instance , speculators ) .
5 It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form .
6 If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity .
7 Well th the profits of the sale fixed assets that the shares and would be if there were any the sale profits on the sale of any other pieces of land at Lakeside or indeed elsewhere in the group and we sold a site not in ninety two , it was ninety one at Frinton I think you 'll remember that so small profits .
8 All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score .
9 If there were ever a Government who had a different view of industrial relations and a different relationship with the trade unions , who knows whether events such as my hon. Friend mentioned might not occur again ?
10 There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them .
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