Example sentences of "there [was/were] clearly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the stated objectives there were clearly a number of more specific targets , many of which have been noted and discussed at length throughout this report . |
| 2 | He said there was clearly a case for considering a new body whose sole responsibility would be banking supervision . |
| 3 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 4 | With no more than fourteen university lecturers in the whole country with a knowledge between them of five South Asian languages , there was clearly a dearth of linguistic knowledge in higher education which was unlikely to be rectified through new appointments , given the shortfalls in funding . |
| 5 | There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle , but playing the role of victim was never among my plans . |
| 6 | There was clearly a need for a fundamental reappraisal of future strategies , policies and perhaps even alignments . |
| 7 | The British had insisted that the Masai sell some cattle to pay for schools and clinics and — there was clearly a hint of blackmail — to contribute to the war effort . |
| 8 | There was clearly a danger for the Labour Party that its candidate for the premiership would not ‘ emerge ’ as a potential leader ; this was reinforced by the fact that the Labour manifesto , Let us Face the Future , did not even mention his name . |
| 9 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
| 10 | Christianson & Loftus ( 1987 ) , unfortunately , report their data in such a way that it is difficult to know whether retrograde and anterograde effects were present , however , there was clearly no interaction of effects with retention interval ( 20 minutes versus 2 weeks ) . |
| 11 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 12 | There was clearly no gold to dig up , and the Indians did not look like becoming docile tenants — the question was whether they might not instead drive the newcomers into the sea . |
| 13 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |
| 14 | On this hypothesis there was clearly no place for review of findings of fact , in the sense of determining whether the evidence justified the application of a statutory term to particular facts . |
| 15 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 16 | There was clearly every incentive to produce a challenging set of guidelines but the opportunity was missed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |