Example sentences of "there [was/were] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 2 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 3 | There were the few of us who cared , and there were the silly ones , the snobbish ones , the would-be debutantes and the daddy 's darlings and the horsophiles and the sex-cats . |
| 4 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
| 5 | Certainly , when anaesthesia , for example , was first introduced , there were the same debates as there are now over the care of VLBW babies , about its experimental nature and the long- and short-term effects of using it . |
| 6 | There were the same farm houses and the same people on bicycles moving along the roads . |
| 7 | before hand there were the same designated police officer of the same specialized suites , things have changed and they have changed for the better . |
| 8 | These relative numbers indicate that the three planets were exposed to populations of small bodies in which there were the same relative numbers of bodies with various masses . |
| 9 | Bringing a copy of this picture to the instrument for comparison only served to show how right these first impressions were ( illus.2 ) : there were the same keys , the characteristically carved end-blocks , the lockboard batten and the nicely rounded crown on the spine adjacent , the colour of the veneer , the same stop knob in the same place — and leaning against this harpsichord the most revered of all ‘ English ’ composers , Handel himself ! |
| 10 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 11 | There were the same satisfactions of seeing a job well-finished and the same frustrations when the machines refused to function . |
| 12 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 13 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 14 | There was the same turbine house , but there were also huge plastic multi-coloured geodesic domes covering steam taps , pipes leaking noxious gas and a general weirdness . |
| 15 | Bedpans had gone from earthenware to papier-mâché , bottles had progressed from glass to plastic , but there was the same kindly welcome , much the same decor except that the photo of George VI had been replaced by a poster on the etiquette of urinating . |
| 16 | There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey , a wagon-train exodus , a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth . |
| 17 | Laboratory experiments comparing " dreamers " with " non-dreamers " have shown that there is little difference between these groups in their EEG/EOG patterns while asleep.3,4 In all subjects there was the same orderly sequence of sleep stages , with REM sleep periods recurring at about 90-minute intervals throughout the night . |
| 18 | After 1914 there was the same certainty about the war , and it was indeed the inflexible determination of the Unionist party , sure about ends and pragmatic as to means , that was the bedrock on which Britain 's war effort rested . |
| 19 | There was the same gap between understanding and the possibility of action when I read Simone de Beauvoir 's The Second Sex just before leaving university . |
| 20 | Again there was the same kind of voice : ‘ Wheee … wheee … |
| 21 | There was the same terrible light and the fear . |
| 22 | He repeated the query , substituting biscuit , ice-cream , banana ; there was the same level of response , but nothing more . |
| 23 | There was the same note , the same feeling of hard comradeship that Forester had shown once before towards Carson , back in Langstone . |
| 24 | There was the same huge stone behind . |
| 25 | There was the same round open window , the same absence of any marks on the panes or sill . |
| 26 | Can you imagine opening a daily newspaper , and finding that on every page , there was the same message from God ; or can you imagine watching breakfast TV — or listening to the Today programme — and finding that every feature was a message from God , with different emphases , but always the same message . |
| 27 | There was the same impossibly perfect shine on the vinyl-tiled floors , the same echoing clunk as the lift began its smooth acceleration up the shaft , the same clean yet sometimes over-strong smell of lemon disinfectant , the same sense of drama and importance overlaid by the deceptive tranquillity of the wards . |