Example sentences of "there [was/were] virtually [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , there were virtually no engine or propeller effects requiring rudder or elevator movements during the climb . |
| 2 | It was ‘ good television ’ and there were virtually no production costs in a sports broadcast in comparison with making a play or a documentary feature . |
| 3 | There was virtually no change in the profit share between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties . |
| 4 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 5 | The revenue investment proposals , the area of biggest concern for commentators , were dropped from FRED 1 when it became clear that there was virtually no support for them — a watered-down version of the proposals subsequently appeared in a discussion draft , putting forward the ASB 's suggestions for an Operating and Financial Review . |
| 6 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 7 | There was virtually no resistance movement , except on distant Ambon whose protestant inhabitants had formed the backbone of the Dutch Indies Army ( very like the Karens in Burma ) . |
| 8 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 9 | ‘ She had no hair , her lips were burned and there was virtually no skin on her body . |
| 10 | Until recently , scientists had assumed that there was virtually no life deeper than 50 metres below the earth 's surface . |
| 11 | And there was virtually no sign of people paying cash when they would really have preferred to buy on credit . |
| 12 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 13 | The study had revealed that there was virtually no provision in either initial teacher training institutions in England and Wales , or in institutionally-based in-service courses , for training to teach community languages . |
| 14 | There was virtually no correlation between these parameters and any of the clinical and histological features of index polyps referred to in Table I ( data not shown ) . |
| 15 | There was virtually no trial or possibility of modification of any of the subject syllabuses . |
| 16 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 17 | In fact , during the first half of the 1980s , there was virtually no distinction in growth rates between Inner and Outer London Boroughs ( Champion and Congdon , 1988b ) . |
| 18 | There was virtually no industry in medieval Rome . |
| 19 | After we had sampled 3000 vehicles at the three sites , we found that there was virtually no difference in the speed between the two classes of drivers . |
| 20 | He felt there was virtually no difference in either of them , ’ says Dave Campion , a member of the Prodrive management team . |
| 21 | For some thousand years there was virtually no attempt to give a ruler an individual image . |
| 22 | There was virtually no INSET , and schools felt that PNP resourcing had very little impact on what they did in the home-school area . |
| 23 | There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing . |
| 24 | He had a clear picture , for there was virtually no cloud cover , with only a few wispy strips of cirrus streaked like vapour trails against the reddish-brown groundscape . |
| 25 | When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by . |