Example sentences of "there was [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 2 | And there was already the fear and the regret at the distance he seemed to be travelling from Ifor ; the utter ignorance of what was going to happen when or if he did finally and two years late pass the examination . |
| 3 | So as with the birth of Culham in Britain , there was again the possibility that fusion could profit . |
| 4 | The Club had been thoroughly searched : there was nowhere the security systems could not probe . |
| 5 | After that there was just the gully to descend , the sinking sand to cross , the sea to wade and the bog to hop . |
| 6 | ‘ There was just the one copy , which limited readership somewhat . ’ |
| 7 | At the extreme , nuclear power poses the risk that if the reaction inside the core should get out of control , or even if there was just the failure of a vital pipe or valve , even larger quantities of radiation would enter the human environment . |
| 8 | I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’ |
| 9 | There was just the hint of a question in his tone . |
| 10 | Outside in the street the traffic might roar , here there was hush broken only by that soft subliminal music , outside the air might be heavy with the mingled smells of petrol fumes and donuts , Macdonalds ' burgers , trash cans , and sweat , here there was just the faintest perfume of a pine pot-pourri , subtle as the music . |
| 11 | Doyle realised that there was just the hint of a smell of animal about the man . |
| 12 | No , they ran across the top of the water and hammered desperately at the air with their wings and then , just when it was obvious they were n't going to achieve anything , they suddenly did ; the water dropped away and there was just the slow creak of wings pulling the goose up into the sky . |
| 13 | There was just the bed , a table , and a chair . |
| 14 | ‘ There was just the smell of the gunsmoke and the blood on his shirt and the killers had gone . ’ |
| 15 | They cast a shadow a mile wide , within which there was just the howl of the gale , clouds of dust and the occasional flurry of hail . |
| 16 | Finally there was just the fitting of the cowlings for the last time . |
| 17 | There was just the summer-shrunken stream from which a pale mist drifted to lie in shadowy skeins across the plump fields of wheat and rye and barley . |
| 18 | There was just the erm Broomfield Staffield Tanys Dell erm Glebelands and that was the all the area that was built up when we came here . |
| 19 | Yeah there was just the church there |
| 20 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 21 | Otherwise there was just the mud , and the stones . |
| 22 | There was just the clumsy pushing , prodding . |
| 23 | There was just the touch he gave , disembodied , little rills of pleasure that seemed to be arriving from nowhere . |
| 24 | Er er there was just the one meal a day and a piece of bread and that was your lot . |
| 25 | People used all sorts of tricks and various types of equipment but here in this silent building there was just the pig , Lord Hulton and me . |
| 26 | There was just the one chef , and he was standing at what looked like a domestic range using a wire scoop in a king-sized wok . |
| 27 | " There was just the thing about the entrance fee , sir . |
| 28 | It would be a pretty terrible place , this boarding section , if there was just the headmaster and his wife . ’ |
| 29 | After this narration , delivered at a slow pace , there was just the slightest pause in case the denouement , instead of being reached , was still to come . |
| 30 | Now there was just the matter of the snake . |