Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were however a number of ways in which , having correctly begun the inquiry , the tribunal could do something which rendered its decision a nullity . |
| 2 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 3 | Within the stated objectives there were clearly a number of more specific targets , many of which have been noted and discussed at length throughout this report . |
| 4 | There were probably a number of them in Britain , but they must have left very little archaeological trace , needing only a flat piece of ground , probably outside the towns , marked out with wood rails and probably a stand at the finishing post for the local dignitaries and wealthy citizens . |
| 5 | As far as the Palestinian population was concerned , gas masks had not been distributed , as they were to all Israeli citizens , to Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and to all arriving immigrants ; moreover , there were reportedly no air raid sirens in the occupied territories except in the Jewish settlements there . |
| 6 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 7 | , William ( 1903–1971 ) , bookmaker , was born in Birmingham 16 July 1903 , the second son and fourth of the eleven children ( there were also a twin son and daughter who died at birth ) of William Hill , journeyman coach-painter , and his wife Lavinia Knight , the daughter of a farmer , who also kept an inn on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire . |
| 8 | These are some of the public events in an already crowded life , but there were also a myriad of smaller but no less official duties which he felt obliged to perform . |
| 9 | There were also a load of other plattitudes ! |
| 10 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 11 | John Cruikshank at Castle Hill House and his ‘ very amiable ’ wife , Anna , were chief among them , and for Coleridge , at least , there were also a number of admiring and musical young women with whom his puns , conundrums , and attempts at dancing made him ‘ an immense favorite ’ . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , in Edinburgh , there were also a number of deaf adults , former pupils of the Edinburgh Institution , who desired a meeting place for prayers and social contact . |
| 13 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 14 | The consensus was simply that Hollywood had lost track of what people really wanted but there were also a number of other notions . |
| 15 | There were also a number of small procedural changes desirable in public inquiries . |
| 16 | There were also a number of minor studies in connection with the main research programme . |
| 17 | There were also a number of questions I had for them . |
| 18 | There were also a number of cases which advocated more extensive review through the mechanism , explicitly or implicitly , of the collateral fact doctrine . |
| 19 | There were also a number of cave mouths , a few yards below the plateau . |
| 20 | There were also a number of landslides in the area . |
| 21 | There were also a number of " technocratic " , non-party members . |
| 22 | There were also a number of other differences between the studies . |
| 23 | Most operated from ports in the NE of England but there were also a number from the Forth . |
| 24 | There were also a number of outstanding secular buildings such as the Palace with its great hall and courtyard , but much of the rest of the city is in ruins . |
| 25 | There were also a cluster of Picassoesque still lifes , including Fish in a Glass Tank ( Leeds City Art Gallery ) in which tessellated areas of rich colour were marshalled into position by a harsh linear framework . |
| 26 | There were also a lot of different birds and animals . |
| 27 | But there were also a lot of people who felt that the presence of er of police in twos and threes , actually inflamed problems in the flats rather than cooled them down . |
| 28 | Nor were these small in number because , apart from the adventure activity accounts , there were also the farm accounts to be dealt with . |
| 29 | On the second sheet er of D One , the responsibility statement , er there were just a couple of boxes er ticked . |
| 30 | There were just a handful of hear-hears when Mellor said his ‘ cheap and sordid ’ affair was not a resigning offence . |