Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were there any air raid precautions that night at all ? |
| 2 | Were there any electrification trains there this time , or what ? |
| 3 | I mean were , were there any sort of political issues she felt very strongly about ? |
| 4 | Er , were there any sort of distortions there in the second half period ? |
| 5 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 6 | Were there any searchlight batteries or anything of that nature in Bloxwich ? |
| 7 | Now then , Assif was asking were there any side effects . |
| 8 | Not until Catherine II deliberately established permanent provincial assemblies of the nobility ( 1785 ) were there any estate institutions in which pressure upon the central government might gather momentum — and even then the assemblies remained passive and ill-attended . |
| 9 | Neither was there any liability for loss of profit on the sale of the lobsters . |
| 10 | Was there any way he could have traced her call or picked up background noise and was now rushing downtown in a wild attempt to snatch the film from her ? |
| 11 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 12 | But if the grantor died in the Crusades , was there any way in which his family could prevent the grantee from taking the benefit for himself ? |
| 13 | Was there any way he |
| 14 | No breach of any of the Rules of the Supreme Court was committed nor was there any element of unfairness to M. in the post-committal procedure that was followed . |
| 15 | Was there any discussion on further Community support for the regions such as Portugal , Greece and Northern Ireland ? |
| 16 | was there any discussion about the difference between the service charges and the management charge ? |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , what did it look like ; was there any hair on it ? ’ |
| 18 | All that day Rose did not come back , nor was there any message . |
| 19 | Only by propping it up , and cleaning it up ( and in the process uniting with it ) , was there any chance of stability . |
| 20 | Now that traditional Vietnamese fortunes had fallen to their nadir , was there any chance that France could have transformed the country and diverted the course of Vietnamese history ? |
| 21 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 22 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 23 | On the one hand , so as to exclude recovery , the present was not a payment made under mistake of law nor was there any payment to avoid threatened litigation . |
| 24 | There was no response to this , nor was there any payment of rent or news of any proposed assignment . |
| 25 | Nor was there any hope of going back into football — unless the authorities could be persuaded to lift their ban on him . |
| 26 | Was there any hope for him ? |
| 27 | Neither was there any reference to Iraq , and it seems from the wording of one report on the proceedings , to the effect that ‘ the UN implicitly criticizes Iran ’ , that here was a resolution with human characteristics , one capable of being all things to all men . |
| 28 | ‘ Was there any reference to my departure … into the wood ? ’ |
| 29 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |
| 30 | Nor was there any issue between pope and king large enough to suggest such a notion . |