Example sentences of "there was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the latency period Freud observed that there was normally an observable de-sexualization of feelings , along with the emergence of such reactions as shame and disgust . |
| 2 | At that time after the conquest there was effectively no ‘ thought ’ ( recorded discourse ) outside the religious framework and institutions . |
| 3 | We therefore conclude that the provisions for payments contained in these two agreements … were incapable in law of creating a joint tenancy , because the monetary obligations of the two parties were not joint obligations and there was accordingly no complete unity of interest . |
| 4 | I mean you 've described it there was over a thousand employees er and a large operation as well ? |
| 5 | There was over a thousand lads on the camp |
| 6 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 7 | There was over an hour to go before the final briefing . |
| 8 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , even in the face of brute facts such as these , there was generally a low-key emphasis in the interwar years towards crime and punishment . |
| 10 | There was nearly a hundred quid in there — we did good business yesterday morning . |
| 11 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 12 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 13 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 14 | Friday July 10 in a small northern town , there was nearly a riot . |
| 15 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 16 | There was thus a clear field for improvements to the route , especially in the sections that most needed it . |
| 17 | There was thus a ‘ spiral of amplification ’ . |
| 18 | There was thus a legal obligation to ensure the packets did not fall below the required weight , but on the other hand the company did not want to give free biscuits to customers by making the packets heavier than necessary . |
| 19 | There was thus a combination of personal case-history and more general political commentary . |
| 20 | There was thus a real danger , not of impoverishment , but of the closing of the gap between princes and other lesser lords , just at the time when display and liberality were increasingly important elements in princely political armouries . |
| 21 | There was thus a community of interest in the war between party and government in 1917–18 as there had not been before , and the party was hardly shaken by the secession of a few diehards to form Henry Page Croft 's National party . |
| 22 | By May the principle of change had been accepted as inevitable , for once an extension of the franchise had been proposed , it would be suicidal for the party to oppose it , and there was thus a need to concentrate on pressing detailed amendments , for example to protect the interests and representation of agriculture . |
| 23 | There was thus a material discrepancy between the 12 January statement and the evidence at the trial , albeit in favour of the defendant , so far as the evidence given was concerned . |
| 24 | There was thus a source of tension built into the very heart of the new biology , a tension that was never resolved and would ultimately divide the life sciences into a chaos of competing disciplines . |
| 25 | There was thus a very big backlog in demand from people who no longer faced a price barrier . |
| 26 | We observed in section 2.3.2 that long-run historical evidence that velocity was stable , tending to rise only very slowly over time , had led some economists to argue that there was thus a close causal connection between changes in the stock of money and the level of aggregate demand . |
| 27 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 28 | There was thus a source and this gave rise to the tax liability . |
| 29 | The judge concluded that there was thus a direct financial inducement for the agent not to enter into such activities but to restrict his post-termination employment to non-competing activities . |
| 30 | There was thus a concrete possibility of creating a Peoples Front in Britain which would take advantage of the opposition to the National Government to be found outside the labour movement . |