Example sentences of "there was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere there was a reconstructed hut which came alive with sound when you walked through a hidden beam . |
| 2 | There was a crippling sense of guilt on him . |
| 3 | In the centre of one wall there was a Palladian mantelpiece in grey marble and above it a shield , bearing the coat of arms of the Challoner family . |
| 4 | There was a flush toilet , and near it what Reid called ‘ the wash-up ’ . |
| 5 | Between Tripoli and Gabes , there was a fortified belt known as the Mareth line which had been built before the war by the French to hinder Italian ambitions to expand their empire into Tunisia . |
| 6 | Husayn stated that if the PLO fell under Syrian domination there was a legitimate question as to whether it would continue to speak for the Palestinian people . |
| 7 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 8 | In the radiotherapy group there was a non-significant DNA diploid survival advantage ( 19.5 ( 2.0 ) months v 12.0 ( 2.0 ) months ) . |
| 9 | There was a non-significant trend towards a higher gall stone recurrence rate in men than in women : 46.4 ( 13.3 ) % v 20.4 ( 7.8 ) % respectively by LTA at 42 months . |
| 10 | The hatred was hard and intense in her voice and there was a snarling edge to it that was horrible to hear . |
| 11 | Also ‘ in the view of many ex-workers there was a lax attitude to health and safety regulations ’ . |
| 12 | There was a whining note to Kathleen Lavender 's voice . |
| 13 | There was a pregnant pause . |
| 14 | There was a pregnant pause . |
| 15 | Rostov felt as if there was a bare exposed place between his shoulder blades . |
| 16 | The trial judge found that there was a bare possibility of fire damage but that this was so remote it could be ignored . |
| 17 | There was a curious incident when a man from the British Council in Madrid came to see me . |
| 18 | I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back . |
| 19 | There was a curious look in her eyes , and Jack suddenly felt afraid . |
| 20 | There was a curious silence , a moment when it seemed that something might be said . |
| 21 | Afterwards some of the people concerned , their family doctor , the solicitor , a few of her mother 's friends , came back and there was a curious tea party with sandwiches and home-made fruitcake . |
| 22 | There was a curious sequel to the Scharnhorst film . |
| 23 | Apart from beetles and damp there was a curious , sweet , noxious smell which took months to track down to seeping drains , and then more months to put right . |
| 24 | On the contrary , there was a curious , rather unnatural gentleness about the way in which he waited for them to come nearer . |
| 25 | There was a curious note of finality in his voice . |
| 26 | There was a curious smell . |
| 27 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 28 | And then there was a curious little embarrassed pause , as if none of us knew what to say . |
| 29 | There was a curious silence . |
| 30 | There was a curious smell of spice in the room . |