Example sentences of "[conj] there [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , ‘ even where there was a scheme , they [ i.e. part-time workers ] were less likely than full-time workers to belong ’ ( p. 99 ) . |
| 2 | From the narrow approach lane a gravel drive swung round to the side door of the inn , and then continued , dwindling , to the rear , where there was a brick garage and a half-grassy car park . |
| 3 | They stopped outside Lyons ' tea house where there was a selection of cakes in the window . |
| 4 | By now the Germans were everywhere : on the Via Emilia , on the Strada della Cisa , which was a vital route of communication across the Apennines into Tuscany , and in the provinces of Parma , Reggio Emilia and Bologna , where there was a division of the Wehrmacht about 20,000 strong . |
| 5 | There was very definitely evidence of a zone in transition and these were marked as limits on the map , by observation of where the CBD finished and where there was a mixture of houses , shops and offices before the area became wholly residential . |
| 6 | The skill , once learnt , helped make me a little more popular and outgoing at school , where there was a craze on for such things . |
| 7 | Lee Lawson , 21 , admitted he had stolen the food from a private garage where there was a freezer crammed with groceries . |
| 8 | Thus , where there was a contract for the sale of land and " buildings material etc " it was held that the word " etc " referred to " material " and did not embrace a right of way ( Re Walmsley and Shaw 's Contract [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 93 ) . |
| 9 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 10 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |
| 11 | Once you had been visited by the sergeant , you 'd go for a scrounge , somewhere you could get a smoke — a bakery where there was a bit of heat in the winter-time . |
| 12 | Remembering the anthology on the beach , I turned to the page , where there was a passage bracketed . |
| 13 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 14 | Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army . |
| 15 | In the centre of his chest , where there was a heart motif on his tunic , there was a ragged hole disclosing his real heart , which looked to have been squeezed by an iron fist . |
| 16 | Below Quinta Vigia are the Santa Catarina Gardens , where there was a cemetery ( Cemitério das Angústias ) until the late 1940s . |
| 17 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 18 | Further , under section 7(6) , the GLC was required to have regard to section 7(3) and , where there was a deficit , the GLC was to take such action as appeared to the GLC necessary and appropriate to enable the LTE to comply with the requirements of section 7(3) . |
| 19 | I went up the stairs , where there was a note on Mr Pocket 's door , saying ‘ Returning soon . ’ |
| 20 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 21 | Then another two or three days went by , and my brother 's wife telephoned from Bakovka ( where there was a dacha containing a collection of pictures by some young artists , along with a great many works and drawings by Anatoly Zverev ) : ‘ Fire ! ! ! |
| 22 | In his last years his health became impaired , and in 1965 he left his rooms in Nevile 's Court , with a fine Athena for a door knocker , for a set in the King 's Hostel , where there was a lift . |
| 23 | that they offered AFP to women if they requested it , or where there was a family history of neural tube defects |
| 24 | Pepita had been fortunate to have a job where there was a doctor or nurse on site . |
| 25 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 26 | ‘ Public place ’ has been held to include a field used by the public on one day only ; a racecourse enclosure where there was a right to exclude people and charge for admission ; and an inn car park . |
| 27 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 28 | Where there was a danger in the past of them getting tagged as the Talulah Gosh it 's OK to laugh with , the Popinjays have packed away their school recorders and become grander , more articulate and sexy than you 'd have ever guessed before . |
| 29 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 30 | By contrast , where there was a legacy sub modo this was impossible . |