Example sentences of "there was [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was but a touch of the harsh , ironic but humorous Ulster accent that I knew , in the tones of his speech . |
| 2 | Its leading edges were free to articulate , the central keel was retained simply because short of cutting it away , there was no choice , and there was but one forward cross-spar . |
| 3 | Then , his head bent forward , he noticed that the shadows were long on the grass ; in fact , there was but merely a streak of sunshine bordering the flower garden now . |
| 4 | One large car-hire company , who expressed mixed feelings about headhunters , had a suspicion about a possible leak by a search firm : ‘ we believe there was but we could not sustain it ’ with any evidence . |
| 5 | There was but one saviour for Europe , in Joyce 's view , and he made no secret that Mosley was not the man . |
| 6 | So all , as I say erm , never used to be able to die with asthma there was but very few , but now it seems to be more common because people are not going for help when they need it . |
| 7 | ‘ Why , Father , there was but a few of us , those who talked with the lads from Shrewsbury , ever knew that . |
| 8 | 1985:21 ) from concepts of structural relativism ( which took the place of the idea that there was but one right model of organization , on the basis of a firm hierarchical structure ) through structures of which some were mechanistic and others organic and into the realm of " contingency " models ( structures of management which alter according to the issues with which they have to deal ) . |
| 9 | that there was but the figures are actually not as er as er disappointing as er Mr may feel . |
| 10 | No no no I was saying that there was but that had been put in quite recently . |
| 11 | No , since there was but one way in , by that way he must go . |
| 12 | Erm there was but , have a look on the top of that slide projector , I think there 's some on there . |
| 13 | I think there was and is . |
| 14 | Aunt Harriet would have been cross , normally , for the seat of the swing made green press-marks on her skirt , but the visitor had spoken up for her , taken whatever blame there was and Aunt Harriet had led Eleanor away to wash her hands before tea , telling her how very , very lucky she was , and how she must always be grateful to the Minister and remember this occasion in future years . |
| 15 | In America there was and is far less formality . |
| 16 | Without doubt Bukharin was correct in the above , in so far as there was and is such a tendency at work within capitalism . |
| 17 | There was and is no legal definition of privacy ; indeed there is no general agreement about what it is — like happiness we can not define it but recognise it when we have it , or more often we know when we feel we do not have it . |
| 18 | There was and there still remains a feeling that some Union members feel as though they have ‘ allowed ’ us to exist autonomously and have special union representation . |
| 19 | The lower slopes glowed with sunshine on old bracken , the upper slopes glittered with sunshine on new snow and , in between , there was and is a great deal of heather , which makes the group appear dark and glowering from many viewpoints . |
| 20 | Within this group there was and remains great variation in financial status by age , class , and gender . |
| 21 | there was and what could we do about it |
| 22 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 23 | And there was and there was cairns where they used to rest the the coffin , cairns here and there along the route . |
| 24 | Was n't it one of the simplest magics there was and his grandfather , to say nothing of his great-grandfather ( who had lived long and fared well ) passing it down to him . |
| 25 | Er well there was and their wives . |
| 26 | Occasionally , however , there was and then , Cairo being Cairo , the Parquet trod very carefully . |
| 27 | We can easily evaluate erm what we sell through the magazine because we 've got all the enquiries and we know how much uptake there was and |
| 28 | This time there was and it 's vital the people responsible are caught . |
| 29 | Because I 've had a look through all the books that there was and er there 's never more than what . |
| 30 | Definitely , yes , and you , you and Dave could have come up and er Carla , perhaps not Lee , but , you know , he may have wanted to go off somewhere else , erm , we could all have bunked down on what spare space there was and I was going to do a very primitive almost medieval , middle ages sort of Christmas |