Example sentences of "there was " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 2 | There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle , but playing the role of victim was never among my plans . |
| 3 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 4 | In the April/May letter writing campaign , there was an error in the appeal on behalf of Taiwanese prisoner Huang Hua . |
| 5 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 6 | The previous May , 13 of his co-defendants were acquitted and released unconditionally on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence for prosecution . |
| 7 | But there was absolutely no news of the men . |
| 8 | There was also concern that groups were growing faster in the UK than in the rest of the world . |
| 9 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , there are some who feel that there should be no border , thinking back nostalgically to days when there was only one domain of art . |
| 11 | A guide to art reference books published in 1969 had 2,500 entries , some of which referred to series ; for example , there was a single entry for the series of monographs on individual artists , called Klassiker der Kunst , also published in French as Classiques d'Art , in which there are thirty-eight books . |
| 12 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |
| 13 | There was a crucial sequence . |
| 14 | At the beginning of Surrealism it was argued that there was no Surrealist painting , but this dogma was soon reversed . |
| 15 | He asked questions , and between his questions and the painter 's answers , there was a discovery of the painting itself . |
| 16 | Even more , there was a sort of mimesis between Fénéon and the artist . ’ |
| 17 | There was a healthy demand for prints and postcards , which added to his income from the arrangements he had with photographers and agencies . |
| 18 | And that was all there was to it . ’ |
| 19 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 20 | Fraser 's fork took several forms , as I say : or one might prefer to say that there was more than one fork to reckon with . |
| 21 | In all this there was plenty of scope for an awareness and endurance of contradiction . |
| 22 | For Glasser , there was Annie , study , socialist hikes and camp-fires in the hills outside the city ; for Fraser , there were model aeroplanes , and a mute attraction shared with a boy of lower status , and there was Bert and Ilse . |
| 23 | For Glasser , there was Annie , study , socialist hikes and camp-fires in the hills outside the city ; for Fraser , there were model aeroplanes , and a mute attraction shared with a boy of lower status , and there was Bert and Ilse . |
| 24 | Whichever way you looked there was nothing but calm black water . |
| 25 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 26 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 27 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 28 | But the passage certainly suggests that there was a distance between Levi 's view of Israel and the views that Commentary chooses to publish . |
| 29 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 30 | And yet there was a work of survival to be attempted in the camps . |