Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] any [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean were , were there any sort of political issues she felt very strongly about ? |
| 2 | Er , were there any sort of distortions there in the second half period ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only by propping it up , and cleaning it up ( and in the process uniting with it ) , was there any chance of stability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was no response to this , nor was there any payment of rent or news of any proposed assignment . |
| 7 | Nor was there any hope of going back into football — unless the authorities could be persuaded to lift their ban on him . |
| 8 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | At no time in the intervening period was there any possibility of the Labour Party replacing the National , predominantly Conservative , government . |
| 10 | The Socialist League still took the view that only through work in the Labour Party was there any possibility of building a united labour movement . |
| 11 | Neither , for the record , was there any admission of liability and in no way was it conceded that ‘ passive smoking ’ caused her alleged illness . |
| 12 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 13 | Nor was there any sign of diplomatic clearance for Algeria , Niger and Nigeria . |
| 14 | The medical profession did not contribute to the new crusades nor was there any resurrection of the medico-moral alliance . |
| 15 | Was there any change of style or tone in the next paragraph ? |
| 16 | Nor , after the first enthusiastic drawings on the tablecloths of the Savoy , was there any idea of designing a royal house as such . |
| 17 | Was there any sense of surprise really that as the quarrier was were Welshmen and most of the workforce were Welshmen that in fact things would come to some sort of agreement , that there would n't be this kind of |
| 18 | Nor was there any likelihood of a spontaneous revolt against the Nazi regime in Germany — not even after the overthrow of Mussolini in Italy in the summer of 1943 . |
| 19 | Nor , she soon discovered , was there any avoiding of his pursuing , determined mouth . |
| 20 | Nor was there any doubt of this being Doreen 's first priority . |
| 21 | Nor was there any question of imposing an unadulterated Western model on Japan . |
| 22 | Nor was there any question of hoarding treasure for a rainy day : a king 's status was related to his generosity and to the display of wealth ; hence Chilperic 's salver made to the glory of the Franks ; hence also the fact that on the death of the magnate Rauching , who can not have had an income comparable to that of a king , more treasure was found in his coffers than was held in the royal treasury . |
| 23 | ‘ Was there any kind of crisis that brought this to a head ? |
| 24 | Was there any kind of material around here suitable for fuel conversion ? |
| 25 | At no time was there any suggestion of a wing drop . |
| 26 | Only when his party took to wearing black shirts , and ‘ disrupting ’ meetings of the opposition in order to save Italy from them , was there any ground-swell of popularity . |
| 27 | But no ‘ sub-ethnicities ’ were considered , nor was there any indication of differences in performance on particular subjects . |
| 28 | Was there any loss of life ? |
| 29 | Di Was there any sort of education outside school , say , Sunday Schools , or ? |
| 30 | And was there any sort of political activities organized then ? |