Example sentences of "there [was/were] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 2 | There were warnings from the capital 's Communist Party leader , Mr Miroslav Stepan , that ‘ armed units ’ of the People 's Militia , the party 's paramilitary force , were standing by . |
| 3 | There were warnings from the capital 's Communist Party leader , Mr Miroslav Stepan , that ‘ armed units ’ of the People 's Militia , the party 's own paramilitary force , were standing by . |
| 4 | Here and there were archways in the stone and through the archways , low doors . |
| 5 | There were moves at the next table . |
| 6 | In December it appeared that there were moves within the Army to engineer the resignation of Gen. Pinochet as its Commander-in-Chief . |
| 7 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 8 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
| 9 | If there were changes in the political leadership of the country , they made little impact on me . |
| 10 | As events came to a head , there were changes in the supervisory structure , with popular supervisors demoted and unpopular men promoted . |
| 11 | If there were changes in the terminals at the presynaptic side , they would have to be measured using the electron microscope , however , for they are not visible at light microscope magnifications . |
| 12 | Yet , alongside the new ownership pattern , the arrangement of hundreds still persisted and , although there were changes in the early medieval period , the older pattern of estates is still often reflected in hundredal arrangements . |
| 13 | Yet there were changes in the countryside . |
| 14 | There were changes in the script right from the earliest moments . |
| 15 | There were moments during the war when popular hostility to ‘ profiteering ’ came close to providing a mass basis for pacifist politics . |
| 16 | There were moments during the Mass when the litanies and prayers , the censers swinging to and fro and the smell of incense made her feel lightheaded , and she was able to believe that she was not really present , not really being married at all , and that at any moment she might open her eyes and awake , to find herself back in Corcaguiney , with the wind ruffling the water across Dingle Harbour and the cloud shadows sailing over the mountain . |
| 17 | There were doubles for the Teessiders in the colts 800 metres ( Fernando Whitworth 2:23.7 and Neal Cotton 2:29.0 ) , boys discus ( Stephen Birse 28.02m and Mark Earl 22.80m ) , youths hammer ( Wayne Gibson 53.96 metres and David Waller 41.52 metres ) , youths steeplechase ( Stephen Helm 4:37.8 and Glen Harland 4:51.0 ) and the youths 3,000 metres ( Kevin Mace 9:30.9 and Paul Bentley 9:39.8 ) while Barry O'Brien scored a double in the youths 200 and 400 metres and Ian Taylor in the shot and hammer . |
| 18 | There were gatherings in the parks where young people read their poetry and sang and danced to the music of guitars ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 770 ) . |
| 19 | The floor was of black and red quarry tiles and there were racks on the walls for the guns but these , of course , had gone , Hilbert 's two shot-guns had gone , one buried in the Little Wood , the other in his bedroom at home in Edgware , zipped up in an old golf-bag under the bed . |
| 20 | There were illustrations of the most outrageous holes on island greens with bunkers sculptured like jaws , and other features wholly inappropriate to golf and which looked like they should belong in a modern art gallery . |
| 21 | Then there were crashings in the underbrush , and a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful , gaping maw burst forth . |
| 22 | He admitted that he had " no idea why there were civilians in the bunker at 0400 in the morning " . |
| 23 | There were rats in the water , swollen-bellied , drowned . |
| 24 | The party 's ‘ new political thinking ’ , by contrast , recognised the existence of a complex and contradictory world in which there were threats to the survival of humanity as such but also great opportunities for coexistence and cooperation . |
| 25 | There were outcries throughout the province , and in Ninfania again there were running battles against the gangs , in the old quarter of Riba , in some of the hill towns which had a tradition of dissent . |
| 26 | There were giggles from the trees behind her , and she turned sharply , furious with her maids , then turned back in time to see Li Yuan summon the small boy forward . |
| 27 | The white-clad figure had no head and there were blood-stains on the front of her dress . |
| 28 | Mrs Blackham enquired , and Lavinia said there were half-pounds in the door of the fridge . |
| 29 | There were sounds on the stairs . |
| 30 | There were sounds in the street outside . |