Example sentences of "there [was/were] [noun] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were records for four months : September ( three ) , October ( six ) , November ( five ) , and December ( one ) . |
| 2 | There were calls for political detainees to be freed and chants in support of the new opposition group , New Forum . |
| 3 | There were storm for 10 winds . |
| 4 | The state testing programmes in the USA have been described in a survey by the Educational Testing Service ( 1973 ) , which reported that , although there were plans for many states to test a wide range of curriculum areas ( such as human relationships ) , few had developed the test technology sufficiently actually to carry out testing . |
| 5 | There were pleasures for both boys in the course of their growing-up . |
| 6 | So there were flags for five kilometres to the left of the depot , and five kilometres to the right . |
| 7 | There was discussion of the rotation of offices , and there were demands for annual elections . |
| 8 | There were demands for higher wages , for social reform and for wider access to higher education , yet in 1966 the government felt the need to cut back on spending programmes as the economy moved into a minor recession . |
| 9 | There were places for sixty-six passengers , thirty-one with Youth Allyah and thirty-five with the RCM , but as the train was boarding the total was cut to sixty . |
| 10 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |
| 11 | The DTI thought it had done a deal with the lawyers and police : by the end of last September these would say whether or not there were grounds for criminal charges . |
| 12 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | It moved to new buildings in 1930 in Ruskin Road , where there was provision for 360 pupils . |
| 14 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 15 | There was money for silly things . |
| 16 | There was room for eight cows in here and every stall was full , but he could see no sign of the half-gipsy girl . |
| 17 | The Association 's chairman , Paul Bell , said there were signs of confidence creeping back into the market but there was room for additional measures if a fullblown recovery was to be seen . |
| 18 | There was room for twelve children . |
| 19 | I discovered there was room for 10 bells , so it was just too tempting . |
| 20 | Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures . |
| 21 | But as mopping up operations continued there was disappointment for regular customers . |
| 22 | There was time for domestic forces to shape a new nation without the same constant vigilance of the behaviour of neighbours . |
| 23 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |