Example sentences of "there [was/were] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | For this reason there were no candidates ' addresses , no attempts to persuade the voters that one candidate 's policies were better than another 's . |
2 | And let me tell you , if there was a women 's demonstration to protest against the machismo of the men in our country , I 'd be right there in the front ranks ! |
3 | There were ten hangings at Oxford from 1892 to 1952 , and two hundred years ago there was a women 's prison next door . |
4 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
5 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
6 | More important , there was a miners ' strike which resulted in the three-day week , comprehensive power cuts and enormous disruption . |
7 | There was a children 's outing that day and I 'm afraid it 's the old story . |
8 | There was no trekkers ' hut here , however basic ; just a shed for the kitchen and an uneven acre of soggy mountain meadow for our camp . |
9 | Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford . |
10 | ‘ There was the parents ' estate , his father 's estate , the Doors ' estate — and they were all fighting . |
11 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
12 | Adjoining were two sleeping compartments containing bedsteads , each with its own lavatory ; and at one end there was an attendants ' compartment with folding bed and facilities for serving light refreshments . |