Example sentences of "[noun] there [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around Preston and East Linton there were by the middle of the nineteenth century seven watermills : in the whole of East Lothian the total in 1854 was recorded as 73 . |
| 2 | You remember all the talk there was at the time , Arthur ? " |
| 3 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 4 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 5 | Somebody did n't even know how many months there were in the year ! |
| 6 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 7 | So , in September 1989 , Helen found herself working part time and researching what gaps there were in the childcare market . |
| 8 | Labour condemned General Noriega as a corrupt dictator , but Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , demanded to know what rationale in international law there was for the invasion . |
| 9 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 10 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 11 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |
| 12 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 13 | Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area . |
| 14 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 15 | As he did so his hand accidentally brushed against her bare leg , and suddenly she was aware of how little difference there was between the shorts she was wearing now and the swimsuit she had worn earlier . |
| 16 | In education there was during the 1960s a gradual shift towards comprehensive secondary schooling partly prompted by a ( false ) belief that such schooling would help eradicate the worst ine-qualities ( class , not gender ) of the tripartite system , as shown by researchers in the sociology of education ( see Finn , Grant and Johnson , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 18 | I 'd also forgotten how many nasty stinging things there were in the country . |
| 19 | But the Whigs had miscalculated how much sympathy there was for the High Church position . |
| 20 | This small growth in overall net disincentive effect between 1956 and 1968 , and its being more pronounced at higher-income levels , was really all the empirical support there was in the UK for those suggesting that higher taxes discouraged work effort . |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 22 | Gabriel had never realized how many sick or imperfect people there were in the world . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ I looked round to see how many bodies there were on the floor . |
| 24 | Again , what little space there was between the two lids might also have been packed with powdered charcoal . |
| 25 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 26 | Charles Davenant observed in 1710 , " what near Resemblance there was between the Old Rumper , and the Modern Whig ( for a Child will be like his true Father ) and how much they agreed in their Insolence to the Throne , Notions in Religion , Principles as to Government " . |
| 27 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 28 | She walked slowly , Anna 's damp hand in hers , keeping to what shade there was from the buildings . |
| 29 | Among the old families of Plantagenet Aquitaine there was by the late thirteenth century only one outstanding dynasty . |
| 30 | And growth there was until the Civil War , when the prosperous Burghers chose the losing , if not the wrong side . |