Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were balloons in all the wards and coloured paper that hung in drooping loops . |
| 2 | Second , that a high proportion of the contributors to avant-garde movements were immigrants to such a metropolis , not only from outlying national regions but from other and smaller national cultures , now often seen as culturally provincial in relation to the metropolis ( e.g. , the typical figure of Guillaume Apollinaire — born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrovwitzki and his eventual role in Paris ) . |
| 3 | There were lights in all the windows and as Julia slowly walked up the stairs , she could hear the sound of cheerful voices from the salon . |
| 4 | By midday there were matches on all the holes , each accompanied by two caddies and a uniformed bobby . |
| 5 | There were locks on all the windows of the flat too . |
| 6 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 7 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 8 | he was king of all the demons . |