Example sentences of "[ex0] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographers were tending to adopt that method on every job , even if there was the opportunity for a natural approach . |
| 2 | Then there was the opportunity . |
| 3 | Where the Colonel Generals , where the Colonels , where the Majors of Headquarters had failed , idiot buggers , there was the opportunity for an ambitious Captain to succeed . |
| 4 | And in the general confusion over Sunday opening , there was the opportunity of sneaking a few extra days of trading , and most booksellers who took this up were well rewarded for their efforts . |
| 5 | ‘ Then there was the Press . |
| 6 | She entered the lit passage and there was the window in the elbow of it , dark now as then , a crowd of pictures on the walls , paintings beneath paintings . |
| 7 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 8 | Lastly there was the unicorn . |
| 9 | There was the metal octiron , for example , and the gas octogen . |
| 10 | And there was the revolution in transport and communications which is still in progress , and which is a variable factor , producing pluses and minuses at different stages . |
| 11 | For the third , there was the pang in his body , physical , yet presumably more to do with the mind : a regret for the paltriness of his life ; grief about an existence that seemed in perpetual stalemate now because of a devouring sense of loss and betrayal , and yet a certainty of the possibility of something else . |
| 12 | First , there was the identification of the ‘ Src homology ’ domains SH2 and SH3 and the recognition ( see refs 10 and 11 for reviews ) that these regions are binding sites for specific tyrosine phosphoproteins ( for SH2 regions ) and specific proline-rich motifs ( SH3 regions ) . |
| 13 | Then there was The Bumpkin , and Septimus — I was particularly sorry to lose them . |
| 14 | First , there was the peer pressure from my colleagues . |
| 15 | There was the prince 's mother , mamina , the old principessa she was called to tell her apart from Anna . |
| 16 | ‘ Like to see it ? ’ he asked , and there was the polyp on a tin tray in front of me , looking very battered and sorry for itself . |
| 17 | Then there was the station where some trains would stop |
| 18 | Then there had been nothing — nothing but bare rooms : now there was the semblance of a working facility , even though most of the equipment remained in cases , waiting to be unpacked . |
| 19 | And , of course , there was the wisteria . |
| 20 | And then of course there was the promise of repairs from Dai Jones and his four sons , that prospect offered some hope . |
| 21 | And there was the promise of more to come . |
| 22 | There was the bone china three-tiered cake stand , each layer nicely laid out with slices of home-made cake . |
| 23 | Of course there was the black-out , and that was enforced , and everybody had to carry gas masks . |
| 24 | The House Committee published a cumulative index of names and organizations and there was the Attorney General 's list of about two hundred organizations which were considered to have been Communist or Communist Front . |
| 25 | A car engine throbbed , people called greetings , there was the creak of shutters opening in one flat and the sound of a radio in another . |
| 26 | and then erm next in order was erm Alfred who was the Chief Clerk and then there were a number on level pegging , there was erm Cyril in charge of Works and Stores , Arthur who was erm , as I 've said was my erm the guardian and erm in the Finance Section was Charlie and erm then there was the typing pool . |
| 27 | There was the sea again . |
| 28 | Soon cool air began to reach me , and suddenly there was the sea . |
| 29 | The look in his eyes frightened her : there was the look of murder in them . |
| 30 | Then there was the rime when she was going on holiday with a schoolfriend and the friend 's parents . |