Example sentences of "there [was/were] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year Colenso began to publish his Pentateuch and Book of Joshua , showing that there were errors of fact there . |
| 2 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 3 | However , there were warnings of cash-flow problems , and it was announced that by April 1992 a 1,000 rouble note would be in circulation . |
| 4 | There were ranks of trestle tables . |
| 5 | There were changes of style and technique , of course . |
| 6 | There were moments of truce — the first of hundreds of Lebanese ceasefires — during which the Lebanese persuaded themselves that the war was over . |
| 7 | There were moments of hope , such as the time Gary seemed to settle in the scouts , but they were dashed when he stole the troop 's funds . |
| 8 | There were moments of course , when Jim and I felt desperately tired and even resentful because there was so much work involved . |
| 9 | There were moments of anguish , which tore him apart and made him sob along with her . |
| 10 | During the storm there were moments of joy and light ; the aftermath contained only the sickness . |
| 11 | There were threats of resignation over what some saw as an issue of academic freedom . |
| 12 | But we looked , and there were flakes of stone in the grass below , and these fresh marks . |
| 13 | Downstairs there were sounds of activity . |
| 14 | There were sounds of protest from the other end of the telephone . |
| 15 | In Holland there were pockets of resistance . |
| 16 | In the 1530s , there were pockets of Lutheranism in various parts of the country , notably in Ayrshire , and in eastern Scotland from Lothian to Aberdeenshire ; Edinburgh itself witnessed ‘ a great abjuration of the favourers of Martin Luther ’ at Holyrood Abbey in 1532 , and the burning of five heretics in 1539 . |
| 17 | The air was cooler and there were pockets of snow in some of the enshadowed river gullies below him . |
| 18 | There were pockets of disaffection in other parts of the country , amongst Anglicans and even Quakers , but these were thin on the ground ; the memories of the 1680s were still too powerful to make many people seriously wish to see the Stuarts back on the throne again . |
| 19 | It was very hot in here , and there were clouds of steam everywhere . |
| 20 | When we raised our heads above the desk there were clouds of smoke blowing across the chemistry laboratory . |
| 21 | But there were sprinklings of silver at this temples , and his hard-boned face was more lined . |
| 22 | There were streaks of vanilla in his hair . |
| 23 | There were streaks of white in his beard , like new-fallen snow . |
| 24 | Alan was on the screen ; there were streaks of blood on his face , his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders . |
| 25 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 26 | Having recounted this history , Lanfranc mentioned that there were professions of obedience to Canterbury , all testifying to its primatial position . |
| 27 | Heavy slate slabs ran round the walls — on some pans of milk were set and left to stand until cream rose to the surface , on others there were pounds of butter , ridged by wooden " butter-hands " and stamped with swans , which sweated cold salt like beads or tears to their surfaces . |
| 28 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 29 | Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists . |
| 30 | Inevitably there were problems of intra- and inter-institutional conflict and jealousies at a time when three tiers of administration — the city , the county and central government — were all involved . |