Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you lay your hands on the second and third addition of the brochures then ? , if there were a second and third edition |
| 2 | and say this group of four here , erm , will get this much shared out between us , so if there were a third as many people , if there was only one person we would n't need so many erm , if there was only one pizza , right , |
| 3 | There were no second chances ! |
| 4 | Fairly easy usually indicated that there was no problem provided adequate warning was given about the course and that there were no last minute emergencies . |
| 5 | He said there were no third parties involved . |
| 6 | Life by that time had appeared on land above sea level , and there were the first plants and terrestrial invertebrates . |
| 7 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 8 | There were the first hints in the late 1950s of American balance of payments problems , and these strengthened the calls for higher tariffs . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , down in the deep south — at TVS studios in Southampton to be precise — there was a 4th July menu that ranged from real Texas burgers to an adventurous Lousiana duck . |
| 10 | Apart from the disallowed goal there was a 1st half penalty insident . |
| 11 | There was a second marginal element , this time province-wide , which was suspicious of the leadership , not because of its class interests but because of its lack of evangelical piety . |
| 12 | Before 1961 , there was a Second or Third Division club in all but three of the 16 semi-finals following the war . |
| 13 | There was a second edition in 1803 , bearing Coleman 's name . |
| 14 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 15 | The Commission slowly realised that there was a second loophole in their work : on paper the scheme looked simple enough , but in fact the Prussian government had mistaken its own hostility towards the Poles for that of the general populace — with unexpected results . |
| 16 | And so there was a second lot of market research commissioned from a different organisation , and they came up with an even better picture ! |
| 17 | There was a second guard-chamber between the outer and inner baileys , but it was unlikely to be on the alert at night when the main gate was manned . |
| 18 | There was a second agent out in the darkness , at the front of the house . |
| 19 | There was a second orgy , and he said : ‘ Afterwards I was disgusted with myself . ’ |
| 20 | If the market could not always be relied upon , due to its increasingly imperfect character , to constrain the powers of corporate managers there was a second way in which corporate managerial power was limited . |
| 21 | There was a second problem , which was fakes . |
| 22 | Whole areas were cleaned like this , and sometimes when there was a particularly fastidious Corporal in charge , there was a second reserve line which followed behind . |
| 23 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 24 | There was a second picture , a Juan Gris , very fine . |
| 25 | There was a second ground of appeal concerned with a point of mixed law and fact but this was abandoned by counsel and we need say no more about it . |
| 26 | In February 1974 , there was a second national miners ' strike . |
| 27 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 28 | There was a second clattering of footsteps and Ian appeared , his tall figure framed in the sliding door . |
| 29 | Three hours later , at 8.05 , there was a second earthquake centred upon Big Bear Lake , some 30 km west of the first epicentre , which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale . |
| 30 | There was a second political reason for favouring the regime 's agrarian interests . |