Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 2 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 3 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 4 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 5 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 6 | There was nothing in the studies on the differences between individual catholic schools , either in terms of pupil experiences or the varieties of educational practice and personnel in each school . |
| 7 | He felt apart ; withdrawn ; like Newman , feeling there was nothing in the world but God and his soul . |
| 8 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 9 | There was nothing in the log book at this stage to make even Wexford even pause . |
| 10 | The Tolkien children were invited to swim and punt on Lewis 's lake at The Kilns , but there was nothing in the way of a ‘ family friendship ’ between the two . |
| 11 | There was nothing in the structure of the new scheme that meant there had to be losers . |
| 12 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |
| 13 | And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway . |
| 14 | There was nothing in the world you could have done to save him . ’ |
| 15 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 16 | It was critical of the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor , and pointed out that there was nothing in the conditions which debarred the same competitor from receiving prizes in more than one of the three parts of the competition . |
| 17 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 18 | There was nothing in the room either . |
| 19 | One did not have to oppose the war to oppose its consequences ; and there was nothing in the least unpatriotic about the demands for ‘ equality of sacrifice ’ . |
| 20 | There was nothing in the room that might have frightened her ? |
| 21 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 22 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
| 23 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 24 | By November 1958 there was nothing in the cloakroom . |
| 25 | There was nothing in the Bill which was in any way dramatic or spectacular , he said , rather it was the culmination of much work and thought over many years by people inside and outside the House who were concerned with the problems of crime and punishment and penal treatment generally . |
| 26 | There was nothing in the section or elsewhere which prohibited different courts on different occasions from making orders which in aggregate exceeded 240 hours , and there was nothing in Evans which conflicted with that conclusion . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 28 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
| 30 | In that case , there was nothing in the circumstances to justify the implication of any term in the agency between the assured and the brokers that the brokers should be free to act for the opposing party , the insurers . |