Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 2 | There was evidently no recourse to Rule XXII under which a vote of " five-sixths of the whole of the financial members " was required . |
| 3 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 4 | The elegant chairs and sofas had gone ; there was not a flower to be seen and , where the gold curtain had been , there was a very ordinary and rather battered door , through which they were taken to Paul de Levantiére 's tiny , chaotic office . |
| 5 | After another couple of hair-raising bends , they entered the tiny village of Ham , where there was not a light to be seen . |
| 6 | There was not a soul to be seen on the pavements . |
| 7 | There was not a soul to be seen , and apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant , and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house , there is still no sound to be heard . |
| 8 | There was not a soul to be seen , which was hardly surprising , considering . |
| 9 | There was not a soul to be seen , though it was a weekend and the sun was shining after many days of rain . |
| 10 | Well , that raises the old question — or might raise it , if there was not an answer to it-of Lampleigh v. Brathwait ( above , p. 200 ) , a subject of great interest to every scientific lawyer , as to whether a past service will support a promise . |
| 11 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 12 | There was n't a seagull to be seen Maggie suddenly realized . |
| 13 | Thankfully , there was n't a table to be had , but her run of luck — bad luck , that was — seemed to be holding . |
| 14 | From where they were there was n't a soul to be seen — certainly no other campers . |
| 15 | There was n't a star to be seen in the sky . |
| 16 | There was n't a cup to be found . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ There was n't a place to be found in Redcar for him , and finding a private flat or bedsit for someone with little funds is very difficult . |
| 18 | Sally , area organiser of the King George V Fund for Sailors , said : ‘ For the same event last year , there was n't a seat to be had , but this year we are having trouble selling tickets . ’ |
| 19 | I I guess there was probably a lean to or something like that . |
| 20 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 21 | There was also a note to the effect that a suitable premises , with stock , had been offered at a reasonable price , in a similar location to her present premises . |
| 22 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 23 | The offer came , there was still a contract to be abrogated , but Lauda is Lauda : what he wants , he gets . |
| 24 | Even if there was still a peace to be saved in 1940 , it seemed most unlikely that Labour would win the election . |
| 25 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 26 | There was now a deadline to discussions about full employment — the government had to come forward with a policy before Beveridge . |
| 27 | A mark of how things had changed was that there was now a hospital to which he could be admitted : there in the University College Hospital in Gower Street he made a will on 7 October witnessed by his old friend Edward Humberstone . |
| 28 | To the relief of leader Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP , David Alton , said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next General Election . |
| 29 | To the relief of Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next general election . |
| 30 | There was really no limit to the day : they had to work till the fish were finished . |