Example sentences of "[subord] there [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was more at the weekends than there was through the middle of the week . |
| 2 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 3 | First , as a result of the negotiations by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor , there is considerably more flexibility now than there was with the 3 per cent . |
| 4 | There 's a much greater sense here of tolerating plurality and diversity than there was in the English departments , although obviously there is conflict amongst staff about the extent to which such plurality can be tolerated . |
| 5 | than there was in the first place . |
| 6 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 7 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 8 | This shows that in well over eighty percent there were fewer tumours at the three month cystoscopy than there were before the B G C was instilled . |
| 9 | In proportion to population there were now more NSDAP members in Danzig than there were in the Reich . |
| 10 | There were probably more books here — real books — than there were in the rest of Chung Kuo . |
| 11 | For example , there are today many fewer tuberculosis cases and far more mentally handicapped persons using the services than there were in the 1950s and this means new demands are placed on the staff that they are not always able to meet . |
| 12 | Industrial disputes became more serious : there were more working days lost through such disputes in the period from 1970 to 1978 than there were in the whole of the period from 1946 to 1969 . |
| 13 | Just as today there are towns , villages , hamlets and farmsteads , so there were in the past . |
| 14 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 15 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |
| 16 | There are at least as many recognisably different " schools " of linguistics throughout the world as there were before the " Chomsky revolution " . |
| 17 | A back door led out to the carport and there were two windows , just as there were in the front . |
| 18 | Inside there are three naves , as there were in the original church , and several fine paintings . |
| 19 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 20 | There was as much in the loft as there was on the whole first floor . |
| 21 | Sometimes , for those who do n't quail , there is a happy finale — as there was for the hunchback of Belorussia ( or was it Kovno Gubernia , or the far side of the Pale ? ) whose demon companions danced his hump off , and sent him home with his shoulders straight and strong . |
| 22 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
| 23 | There was a great variety in the six plays performed , as there was in the medieval plays ; some were pious and some funny , some incorporated music and dancing . |
| 24 | Well if there is water in the gutter , as there was in the Strand , you can create a remarkably similar effect with a fast sports car . |
| 25 | There is a world recession today as there was in the 1930s . |
| 26 | Such socio-political criticism as there was in the music of P. I. Tchaikovsky ( 1840–93 ) , the paintings of I. Repin ( 1844–1930 ) , and the drama of A. P. Chekhov ( 1860–1904 ) was expressed with great subtlety . |
| 27 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 28 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 29 | The results showed that there was twice as much free ball from the Currie Cup game line-outs as there was from the World Cup games . |
| 30 | This clarity , aided by his youth , made him handsome , though there was about the handsomeness something of the coldness of a coin . |