Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were none the less growing pressures on the BEA to discipline their own requests for capital through the achievement of a higher rate of return on capital , and higher rates of self-financing , both of which conformed to the Conservative Government 's image of efficient private enterprise industry and ‘ commercial ’ disciplines . |
| 2 | There were none the less in the later eighteenth century a number of rulers and ministers in Europe who were prepared to break radically with the past , to override vested interests and disregard deep-rooted traditions in the interests of the States they ruled . |
| 3 | because there was nothing no signature whatsoever . |
| 4 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 5 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 6 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 7 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 8 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 9 | There was nothing the matter with his features . |
| 10 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 11 | He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it . |
| 12 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 13 | One said : ‘ Most people in this area always felt there was something a bit odd about him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've always thought there was something a bit sad about grown men waving guns about like that . |
| 15 | There was something a little unsettling about this shifting quality of his — this ability , like a prism , to cast lights of varying colours , all different , all startling , all totally unexpected . |
| 16 | She wanted us to make her a Shaker-style chest , and there was something a bit peculiar about the dimensions , so Luke and I went to Bracken Cottage . |
| 17 | Sir Ralph Howell would have induced confidence , even in schoolmasters ; there was something a bit dodgy about Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 18 | If it had been anyone else the Direktor would also have said that there was something a little pathetic about her . |
| 19 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 20 | There was something wrong , there was something the matter . |
| 21 | er nothing sunk that there was something the matter |
| 22 | A Durham miner 's daughter ‘ could shout down the passage and me grandma would soon know if there was anything the matter with us . ’ |
| 23 | The words were sharp but there was none the less warmth in the queen-dowager 's voice . |
| 24 | If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France . |