Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were just the mist and the empty roads , and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn . |
| 32 | There were just the whitehorn and brier of the hedges , the green ridge of the lane inside the wheel tracks , the wild strawberries starting to darken on the banks . |
| 33 | In a perfect world the course should have lasted not one year but three — but there were neither the time or resources ; nor can one train trainers as well as one would like in a field where there are as yet no models to emulate and no specific literature . |
| 34 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 35 | There were simply a succession of species of bigger dimensions . |
| 36 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |
| 37 | There were always a number of children in the street . |
| 38 | Oh there were never no word about that , no . |
| 39 | If there were ever a Government who had a different view of industrial relations and a different relationship with the trade unions , who knows whether events such as my hon. Friend mentioned might not occur again ? |
| 40 | On the other hand , there were virtually no engine or propeller effects requiring rudder or elevator movements during the climb . |
| 41 | It was ‘ good television ’ and there were virtually no production costs in a sports broadcast in comparison with making a play or a documentary feature . |
| 42 | The imposition of a severe censorship and the sacking of all hostile editors ( there were almost no spetsy in the press ) immediately upon the seizure of power in October 191 7 had ensured its smooth running from the political and administrative point of view . |
| 43 | This patient 's verbal output consisted almost entirely of content words there were almost no function words and no grammatical structure . |
| 44 | 25 years ago there were almost a quarter of a million dairy farmers in England and Wales . |
| 45 | I mean there were obviously a lot of things I could criticize . |
| 46 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 47 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 48 | That apart there were definitely no North-East BAFTA award winners . |
| 49 | there were quite a bit Lyness , because I remember once the Hoy Head coming down from Stromness with a lot of party makers aboard it and cameras out and afore they knew where they were the admiralty men was there whipping the films out of the cameras . |
| 50 | And er we went in , there were quite a crowd there you know . |
| 51 | Yes there were quite a crowd . |
| 52 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 53 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 54 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 55 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 56 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 57 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 58 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 59 | We both really enjoyed this old house in the Kimbolton Road , for as well as us there were quite a lot of folk from the BBC . |
| 60 | There were quite a lot of people in and around the pool , all suntanned and all drinking the Sunday morning liveners — Bloody Marys , boilermakers , highballs , iced beer . |