Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were kids dressed in velvet cloaks who lived free lives ; there were thousands of black people everywhere , so I would n't feel exposed ; there were bookshops with racks of magazines printed without capital letters or the bourgeois disturbance of full stops ; there were shops selling all the records you could desire ; there were parties where girls and boys you did n't know took you upstairs and fucked you ; there were all the drugs you could use . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding these advantages , there were all the while pressures for structural change . |
| 3 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 4 | In Egypt knowledge of Hebrew became exceptional while there were all the attractions of Greek literature . |
| 5 | Up on Tottenham Court Road there were all the gadget shops , all displaying their various ranges of radios , record players , compact-disc players and videos — all of which seemed to be housed in bewilderingly similar sleek black boxes . |
| 6 | Not only did they have to feed the family and all the guests at ‘ the Big House ’ , but regular supplies were sent to the town house as well , then of course there were all the servants to feed . |
| 7 | Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after . |
| 8 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 9 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 10 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 11 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 12 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 13 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 14 | Second , it must be shown that there was no expression of view made by the person as to what should be done in the event that he became incompetent , or , if there were such an expression of view , that it was made when the patient was already incompetent . |
| 15 | Provincial cities which had ten to twelve theatres now have one or two and probably there were double the number of actors at that time . |
| 16 | But I I 'd said to Angela there were some a while back but I 'd not sh shown them her . |
| 17 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 18 | More curiously still , by promoting the figure of Charlemagne , Otto has also been seen as contributing to the creation of the French state : ‘ The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognised outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . ’ |
| 19 | The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognized outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . |
| 20 | They would have had , but there was such a crush in the bar , there was no prospect of getting served before the curtain went up . |
| 21 | Her life , and her husband 's , bless him , were so secure , so free of the ghastly crises which afflicted other Oxford people in their mid-forties — so , in a word , if indeed there was such a word , so un-oceanic . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly , there was such a reservoir of unregulated behaviour in Dicey 's day . |
| 23 | There was such a racket from their place at night during lambing time — and that 's a twenty-four-hour job with no time to sleep . |
| 24 | Mrs Hunt has said she can not understand why there was such a delay when an ambulance station is situated less than a mile from her home . |
| 25 | It was the men there who were aggrieved , who had had better wages as the war had ended and there was such a rush on , wages had gone up , but the once the boom was got over they came down . |
| 26 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 27 | And there was such a caress in his voice that Grainne felt her heart lurch . |
| 28 | Indeed , there was such a degree of integration between the two that even modern Spain retains a powerful element of Orientalism within its cultural makeup . |
| 29 | And of course , Medoc would be sure to know if there was such a child in Ireland . |
| 30 | Their heavy-handed approach might also have deterred Madame Vassoir — if there was such a person — from co-operating , whereas Charlotte was uniquely well placed as Beatrix 's niece and Samantha 's aunt to appeal to her on behalf of the whole family . |