Example sentences of "there were [verb] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All would be well , she said , because there were going to be so many doctors around . |
| 2 | It was more a trickle than a flood , for peaceful homesteads could be successfully built only where there was relative security , and where there were known to be agriculturally suitable regions . |
| 3 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 4 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |
| 5 | Before the present conflict there were thought to be as many as 4,000 elephants in Sri Lanka , though 3,000 is a more likely total . |
| 6 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |