Example sentences of "[ex0] [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 2 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 3 | There always was a pub here but it has been transformed . |
| 4 | There once was a plan to remove it and replace it with a television transmitting tower . |
| 5 | There once was a lady called Polly who talked to flowers . |
| 6 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 7 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 8 | IF THERE ever was a man for all seasons it is the redoubtable John Jackson , whose posts include a board seat at electronics group Philips and the vice chairmanship of Ladbroke . |
| 9 | But there again if there ever was a strike or that you 've a wee bit protection . |
| 10 | Looking back I realise that , if there ever was a moment when I might have quit , admitted defeat and abandoned the Cathedral to throw myself on the mercy of school , home or child guidance clinic , this was that moment . |
| 11 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
| 12 | There probably was a problem . |
| 13 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 14 | Yet there really was a time when people seriously doubted whether Britain was governable any more ; when we appeared to be doomed to decline ; when our friends pitied us ; when envy masqueraded as economic policy . |
| 15 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |
| 16 | Questioned as to whether she thought there really was a blood tie , this respondent replied : |
| 17 | Nevertheless one should ask , even on the basis of this lecture , whether there really was a dichotomy between Western Europe and the Far East divisions in the State Department . |
| 18 | Jean Robinson said it was unfair to advertise unless there really was a post available because people would waste time and energy applying for something that did n't exist . |
| 19 | But at the same time , she felt a faint chill ; if there really was a flood , a basement like this was n't the best place to be . |
| 20 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |
| 21 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 22 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 23 | Feelings in early childhood , where we were , indeed , helpless , where the world was , in fact , meaningless , where we were er subject as it were to erm , the arbitrary erm to , to , to arbitrary fate , and felt it because we were young children , but in which there really was a power that looked after us . |
| 24 | There never was a love like ours before ! |
| 25 | But there never was a threat to a new German-American special relationship , since there never was such a special relationship to begin with . |
| 26 | THERE never was a leader who came from a place with a more appropriate name . |
| 27 | Amidst all this , there never was a time when any Carolingian ruler saw the clergy as such in the guise of a challenge to secular power . |
| 28 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 29 | When , in 1808 , the cotton weavers were forced to work a sixteen-hour day for a subsistence wage , they complained bitterly : " there never was a time before the present when the workman could not live by his trade " . |