Example sentences of "there were [verb] [prep] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , put any man and woman alone together and there were bound to be misapprehensions . |
| 2 | There were going to be fireworks to finish , ‘ at dusk ’ according to the poster on the park gates . |
| 3 | ‘ Eat up , ’ she said , ‘ There were going to be potatoes but I got lost chanting mantras . |
| 4 | When he arrived on the set all hunched up with his head down to his waist , she knew there were going to be problems on the way . |
| 5 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |