Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [conj] there [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there were many even among his admirers who acknowledged that there were latent dangers in having the country who were certain to provide the numerically strongest contingent additionally furnishing not just the manager and assistant coach but also the captain . |
| 2 | The point appeared to be taken on board by UK energy minister Tim Eggar who acknowledged that there were other areas competing for shares of hard-pressed oil company budgets as the world oil prices fell back in real terms to pre-1974 levels . |
| 3 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) , who acknowledged that there was shared sovereignty within the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Those earlier showmen who had controlled the music-halls and vaudeville thought at first that they could incorporate film into their little empires but they were swept aside by new showmen who knew that there were vast audiences to be captured and that the old theatrical format was far too restricted . |
| 5 | These embryologists could not accept the explanation of epigenesis provided by the French philosopher Descartes , who suggested that there were mechanical forces which moulded the embryo . |