Example sentences of "[pron] there [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I there was a couple that were really seriously badly burnt , and one of them did n't survive . |
| 2 | I mean I there was a thing I do n't know if anybody 's told Pessaries , Doctor Pessaries , that you could use . |
| 3 | That dopey Arnold told 'er there was a job goin' at the sawmills . |
| 4 | Birkenhead 's marriage ( of which there were a son and a daughter ) put his finances and the succession to Charlton , near Banbury , his father 's beloved country house , on to a secure basis . |
| 5 | There was a ‘ get-together ’ at which there were a lot of pretty speeches and selling of gold bricks , and then there was a lot of singing . |
| 6 | ‘ We tried to fit together the enigmas , of which there were a number . |
| 7 | Their escape ended on the seventh circuit and during a hectic last couple of laps in which there were a number of attacks by Andrew Moss ( Ballymena RC ) Movilla 's John West , Mark Smyth ( Newry , O'Rourke 's ) and Jonathan Kenny ( Movilla ) , it was left to the sprint with Fullerton just shading the decision ahead of Brennan . |
| 8 | It sounds like an enormous amount , but what one actually did was : documents came in , documents went to boards ( of which there were a number in the business and social studies area ) , boards commented on them , you sent a minute off to the institution , you went on a visit , you wrote a report , and that was that . |
| 9 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
| 10 | They wished to replace the system under which the Church was governed by king , bishops and clergy with one in which there was a separation of Church and State , and in which each congregation would be governed by an elected minister , elders and deacons , holding their commission by positive enactment of the Holy Scriptures . |
| 11 | She had asked if they could have it private , early or late , but had been told they must join the club , for which there was a waiting list and a subscription . |
| 12 | For example , the defendant may argue that the injury was not inflicted with intent to have intercourse but occurred after consensual intercourse or was inflicted during a quarrel , after which there was a reconciliation and consensual sexual intercourse took place . |
| 13 | The way was of course to put governmental power into the hands of men who were made subject to periodic elections at which there was a choice of candidates and parties . |
| 14 | We would , of course , expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written . |
| 15 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 16 | Now , in accepting Tully 's offer , the defendant was not protecting his master 's interests … [ he ] was placing himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interests between him and his principal and he was looking after his own interests to the detriment of his master 's interests . |
| 17 | After returning briefly to London , Sir Alastair was in Cardiff on Friday evening , 19 February , for the Annual Dinner of the Welsh Section , for which there was a capacity turn-out in excess of 200 members and guests . |
| 18 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 19 | They were down on the floor , and one side of her face was scorched by Gordon 's mother 's horrible gas-fire , in front of which there was a bowl of tepid water . |
| 20 | We also found , surprisingly , that the effect of congruity with verb bias was largely restricted to the condition in which there was a gender cue . |
| 21 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |
| 22 | President Truman 's Democratic Administration existed side by side with a Congress in which there was a Republican majority . |
| 23 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 24 | ( A fourth possibility , others have suggested , is that Gravier never was on the airplane at all , but he sent an aide in his place using his name to deliver a package in which there was a bomb . |
| 25 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 26 | During his visit to China in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , Khamenei said that " the decision against Rushdie remain[ed] valid " and declared that " this [ was ] a bullet for which there was a target ; it has been shot ; sooner or later it will reach its target " . |
| 27 | One could develop the argument that a well-run housing association , with tenants on the board and with regular consultation , might be more accountable than a local authority for which there was a vote only every four years and which tended to ignore the views of tenants . |
| 28 | Parallel to the canyon , but just out of sight , was a wadi , along which there was a string of villages . |
| 29 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 30 | The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather . |