Example sentences of "there [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |
| 2 | All the feeding stuff and there were a pile of feeding stuff then for the hens were all and cattle were fed and all the feeding stuff had to be imported . |
| 3 | Even if there were a willingness to reduce production , it would be hard , in the European Community , to resist the sheer momentum created by opening the frontiers of the new internal market after 1992 . |
| 4 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 5 | Well what I did , there were a competition , win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles and I , I entered every single one of them because of Irene . |
| 6 | In fact , I would n't be surprised if there were a clause in your contract forbidding that kind of journey on a performance day . |
| 7 | Ted Deerhurst was still worrying over whether , assuming there were a swell , he was going to be given a shot . |
| 8 | ‘ What if there were a drug , ’ he asks , ‘ that could induce feelings of upper middle-classness ? ’ |
| 9 | the prize money down , and there were a trip planned , you 'd to go from Queensbury and you used to go through to Blackpool |
| 10 | And now , with this morning 's news , it looked as though there were a chance . |
| 11 | If there were a relationship between that hypothetical influence and the concept of a created and worshipped ‘ god ’ of the post-life world , then that relationship must be regarded as part of the same great mystery which shrouds the origins of the universe itself . |
| 12 | Likewise , there were a range of services — including solicitors , garages , restaurants — where small scale remained the norm [ Bolton Report , 1971 ] . |
| 13 | We were surprised to realise that instead of two distinct groups there were a range of speakers and writers with an overlap and no clear demarcation between schools . |
| 14 | There were a range of meetings , some private meetings with district councils when they 've given the opportunity to discuss issues erm themselves , and quite clearly our members did in fact look at a whole range of projections before coming to a final view . |
| 15 | And there were a clutch of gongs for people who also write . |
| 16 | If there were a shred of humanity in the IRA , they would hand those killers over for justice without any delay . ’ |
| 17 | In addition , if there were a lack of confidence in the Government 's strategy for getting the deficit under control , it could require a rise in interest rates with very damaging effects on business confidence . |
| 18 | In addition , if there were a lack of confidence in the Government 's strategy for getting the deficit under control , it could require a rise in interest rates with very damaging effects on business confidence . |
| 19 | She asked if there were a river nearby . |
| 20 | However , I would guess that , if there were a referendum on the issue in Britain , there would be a clear majority for making homosexual acts between consenting adults illegal . |
| 21 | As well as the two principal characters , there were a warrior , to do the calling away , and two attendants . |
| 22 | Under her heavy clothes , she felt filthy , as if there were a layer of vermin-ridden earth between her naked skin and the fabric . |
| 23 | And if there were a proposal to establish a funding council , that would best be done in the context of the further education colleges having acquired self-governing status , having found their feet and having had an opportunity to discuss the respective roles of the funding council and of the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | If there were a obligation on the police to operate a policy of protecting those first into the forum , freedom of speech would be the better preserved . |
| 25 | He felt as though there were a space for him in the universe , and he exactly filled it . |
| 26 | The constables were keen to display to the field-worker that they knew the appropriate law to apply and that the law gave formal justification to their decisions , but there were a variety of other factors which facilitated this sensitive interpretation of the law . |
| 27 | In the nineteenth century there were a variety of sources available about criminal cases . |
| 28 | He held that there were a variety of different rightness-making properties . |
| 29 | There were a variety of difficulties in administering the former Community Charge , one of the main ones was in maintaining an accurate Community Charge Register of all individuals resident within the Region at any particular time . |
| 30 | As we have seen , there were a variety of different types of Jacobitism , whilst the serious source problems involved in studying this subject will always limit our understanding and inevitably mean that there will continue to be much room for interpretative disagreements . |