Example sentences of "there were [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 2 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 3 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 4 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 5 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 6 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 7 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 8 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 9 | There were on the one side the Roman citizens who ( leaving out for our purpose the distinction between cives cum suffragio and cives sine suffragio ) filled the legions . |
| 10 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 11 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I looked round to see how many bodies there were on the floor . |
| 13 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 14 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 15 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 16 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 17 | Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud . |
| 18 | Around Preston and East Linton there were by the middle of the nineteenth century seven watermills : in the whole of East Lothian the total in 1854 was recorded as 73 . |
| 19 | The highest success rates obtained ( 90–100 per cent ) were for answering simple questions about a calendar : on which days of the week were given dates and how many days there were in a given month . |
| 20 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |
| 21 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 22 | There were in the parliament at the end of 1989 twenty-nine European Greens and fourteen members ( including two defectors from the Greens ) of their old partnership , the Rainbow Group , a ‘ technical ’ gathering of green-tinged communists , nationalists and anti-EC Danes . |
| 23 | And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flocks by night . |
| 24 | A back door led out to the carport and there were two windows , just as there were in the front . |
| 25 | Inside there are three naves , as there were in the original church , and several fine paintings . |
| 26 | And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night . |
| 27 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 28 | In proportion to population there were now more NSDAP members in Danzig than there were in the Reich . |
| 29 | So , in September 1989 , Helen found herself working part time and researching what gaps there were in the childcare market . |
| 30 | I think it would be a crying shame if the country pub disappeared but they need customers and there are n't the customers around that there were in the past . ’ |