Example sentences of "[adv] there [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 2 | Suddenly there was somewhere where you could ‘ be ’ in peace , where plots could be hatched , messages got across and , best of all , where romance could be safely experienced . |
| 3 | Admittedly there was more than a hint of urban overcrowding two doors away from William at no. 21 , where a glove cutter , a walnut-veneer repairer and a book finisher were living with their families — but that was exceptional . |
| 4 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 5 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 6 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 7 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 8 | Compare that to one day recently when there were more than seventy calls about a schedule change . |
| 9 | Some of the worst excesses were documented in Africa , where there were more than 1,000 extrajudicial executions in Burundi against a background of ethnic tension . |
| 10 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 11 | Such comments would include , for example , any opinions that the trial judge has expressed , in a case where there was more than one defendant , as to the respective parts each played and thus as to the culpability of each for the offence . |
| 12 | In cases where there was more than one accused , it was not unusual to discover that some evidence was admissible against one accused only and not the other accused . |