Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [conj] there [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticisms of this approach have been documented by , for example , Lea and Young ( 1982 ) ; most of the rioters were not black ; some riots occurred in areas where there were very few black people ; most black people are British ; a ‘ British ’ culture seems elusively difficult to define ; and so on . |
| 2 | Christina Onassis suffered in spades and there is something of Greek tragedy about her increasingly desperate search for the human affection of which she was starved as a child . |
| 3 | It disappeared again but another came in view and there was a clatter of wings as two landed on the road twenty feet from where I hung . |
| 4 | Nothing violent happened in Fontanellato because there were no partisans in the village : it was full of Germans and Repubblichini . |
| 5 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 6 | His Empire contained big national minorities , of which the most important was a population of 2,500,000 Poles in Prussia itself ; 250,000 Frenchmen lived in Alsace and there were also substantial numbers of Wends , Danes and Lithuanians within the Empire . |
| 7 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 8 | Generally the remains are collected from vets and cremated in bulk unless there is a special request for ashes in which case the pet would be dealt with separately . |
| 9 | , Sir Thomas , first baronet ( 1637–1688 ) , master carpenter , bricklayer , and building contractor , was born in Barkway , Hertfordshire , the second son ( the first died in infancy and there was also a daughter ) of William Fitch and his wife Alice , and baptized 17 December 1637 . |
| 10 | He said in addition that there was no date set for the completion of the study . |
| 11 | So the real difficulty remained in families where there was no direct heir , as the Angevin succession crisis of the 1060s proved . |
| 12 | About a dozen residents stood in protest but there was no trouble . |