Example sentences of "there were [det] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long there were many activities for which time came to be increasingly regarded as valuable . |
| 2 | There were many pluses in what was the best performance of the season so far , home or away . |
| 3 | Examinations aside — there were many ways in which the unlucky , rather than the unwary , could slither down . |
| 4 | There were some families in which domestic help from a widowed grandmother was really a disguised form of assistance in the other direction . |
| 5 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 6 | Not only was a papal judgement difficult to get , but there were some points on which Anselm was not prepared to abide by a papal judgement unreservedly . |
| 7 | The implication is perhaps that there were some parts in which it had ; that will be considered below , after we have looked at the pattern of provincial money wages . |
| 8 | There were some issues on which the left was always trounced — over the Militant Tendency , for example . |
| 9 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 10 | In September 1539 Sir Thomas Heneage told Cromwell that he had managed to get three bills signed by Henry , but there were several others for which his successors in office would have to get that difficult authority , the royal signature . |
| 11 | And although the flow of mutual aid was markedly more often from the grandparent so long as the two generations were living separately , there were several cases in which visiting was explicitly intended to enable the grandchild to convey help . |
| 12 | There were several ways in which the widespread introduction of coconuts into the district interfered with cattle theft . |
| 13 | The presentation seemed to affect the error patterns more than the success rates ( Table 4.17 ) : there were several ways in which the dimensions of the box were used to obtain an answer . |
| 14 | There were several ways in which this could be done . |
| 15 | There were few subjects on which he did not have firm opinions . |