Example sentences of "[ex0] were [adj] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pale with exhaustion and there were blue marks under his eyes . |
| 2 | There were essential differences between them , so that arguments between splitters and lumpers were not about convenience , but about truth . |
| 3 | There were four daughters-in-law in their hareem , all from important Sheikh families . |
| 4 | There were four churches within its walls . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there were four situations in which an ‘ extended ’ multi-generational family was , at least transitionally , a regular practice . |
| 6 | There were four canonizations during his pontificate . |
| 7 | The report did recommend that members be called upon to break off relations with Spain , but there were serious divisions among them about the efficacy of such measures . |
| 8 | There were serious differences within their ranks , a fact which provided a serious handicap in subsequent years , but they all found Lenin 's concept of the Party unacceptable . |
| 9 | Without them there was little hope of French approval ; if they were retained , there were serious doubts about their acceptability to the other signatories . |
| 10 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 11 | There were various mounds among them . |
| 12 | Although all areas had permanent grass there were various interpretations of what constitutes ‘ permanent ’ grass . |
| 13 | There were mobile shadows above her nose and eyebrows . |
| 14 | There were normal things in it ; there were chairs and a table , on the table was a water jug , a bowl of food of some kind , fruit . |
| 15 | She knew that there were murky corners to his business affairs , that for a suave good-looking man , he had one or two unfortunate characteristics , like a ferocious temper . |
| 16 | There were protracted delays in their trial until they appeared before a magistrate in Liverpool on February 9 last year . |
| 17 | There were tigerish glints in her brown eyes ; it was extraordinary , he thought , how anger made some women more beautiful . |
| 18 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 19 | There were six windows between my window and the room with the light . |
| 20 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 21 | While MacArthur had enormous power as the supreme commander , there were noticeable differences among his advisors especially on the general issue of the strength of ‘ latent democratic tendencies ’ in Japan . |
| 22 | It is necessary to find out as precisely as possible how often it was committed , whether or not there were regional variations in its frequency , and if there were changes over time . |
| 23 | But ten kilometres away there were rich people like you , with big beautiful houses , fine cars , fine clothes — and they were all innocent people , like you ! |
| 24 | In three important — and partially overlapping — groups , however , the ‘ Führer myth ’ was still disproportionately strong , even if here too there were distinct signs of its decay . |
| 25 | There were distinct advantages for me in the relationship . |
| 26 | Amidst all this evidence of the effects of unlimited destructive powers unleashed , there were small pockets in which some remarkable things survived — delicate china cups , corked bottles of water , still drinkable , little packets of starch in which the granules were untouched ; even a street fountain still splashed cold drinking water in one of the ruined streets . |
| 27 | His hands were scratched and dusty and there were small rips in his sweater . |
| 28 | The wall was crumbling and there were great gaps in it . |
| 29 | There were houses all around but all the doors were closed and the windows shuttered and there were great heaps of what looked like garbage in the dark , shadowed alleys between them . |
| 30 | There were splendid parties at her parents ' home in The Bishop 's Avenue — Hampstead 's ‘ Millionaires ’ Row ’ . |