Example sentences of "there was [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 2 | There was over an hour to go before the final briefing . |
| 3 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 4 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 5 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 6 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 7 | Friday July 10 in a small northern town , there was nearly a riot . |
| 8 | There was thus a source of tension built into the very heart of the new biology , a tension that was never resolved and would ultimately divide the life sciences into a chaos of competing disciplines . |
| 9 | There was thus a source and this gave rise to the tax liability . |
| 10 | There was thus a material discrepancy between the 12 January statement and the evidence at the trial , albeit in favour of the defendant , so far as the evidence given was concerned . |
| 11 | There was thus a community of interest in the war between party and government in 1917–18 as there had not been before , and the party was hardly shaken by the secession of a few diehards to form Henry Page Croft 's National party . |
| 12 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 13 | By May the principle of change had been accepted as inevitable , for once an extension of the franchise had been proposed , it would be suicidal for the party to oppose it , and there was thus a need to concentrate on pressing detailed amendments , for example to protect the interests and representation of agriculture . |
| 14 | There was thus a combination of personal case-history and more general political commentary . |
| 15 | There was thus no need for the statutory machinery for appeals against assessments to be used . |
| 16 | Following from this there was thus an incentive for peasants to invest in large scale improvements without fear of tax on rises in productivity because the N A Y was fixed for at least three years . |
| 17 | The statutory words were capable of bearing either meaning and there was thus an ambiguity or obscurity . |
| 18 | There was somehow a smell of sulphur in the air now and Rohmer 's eyes seemed to be glittering in triumph . |
| 19 | He said there was clearly a case for considering a new body whose sole responsibility would be banking supervision . |
| 20 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 21 | With no more than fourteen university lecturers in the whole country with a knowledge between them of five South Asian languages , there was clearly a dearth of linguistic knowledge in higher education which was unlikely to be rectified through new appointments , given the shortfalls in funding . |
| 22 | There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle , but playing the role of victim was never among my plans . |
| 23 | There was clearly a need for a fundamental reappraisal of future strategies , policies and perhaps even alignments . |
| 24 | The British had insisted that the Masai sell some cattle to pay for schools and clinics and — there was clearly a hint of blackmail — to contribute to the war effort . |
| 25 | There was clearly a danger for the Labour Party that its candidate for the premiership would not ‘ emerge ’ as a potential leader ; this was reinforced by the fact that the Labour manifesto , Let us Face the Future , did not even mention his name . |
| 26 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
| 27 | Christianson & Loftus ( 1987 ) , unfortunately , report their data in such a way that it is difficult to know whether retrograde and anterograde effects were present , however , there was clearly no interaction of effects with retention interval ( 20 minutes versus 2 weeks ) . |
| 28 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 29 | There was clearly no gold to dig up , and the Indians did not look like becoming docile tenants — the question was whether they might not instead drive the newcomers into the sea . |
| 30 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |