Example sentences of "there [was/were] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 2 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 3 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 4 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |
| 5 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 6 | Well there was for six months . |
| 7 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 8 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |