Example sentences of "[noun] there [was/were] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then in these days there were pits for going underneath the cars er dug into the ground so as you could get underneath the cars . |
| 2 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 3 | Edwin Montagu was accused of anti-British motives for his Indian policy ; with Reading as Viceroy there were openings for the diehards " latent anti-semitism . |
| 4 | Particularly in the 1930s significant shifts in popular attitudes affected political postures , and for a variety of reasons there were calls for increased public sector intervention in a range of national economic and social affairs . |
| 5 | During the three relevant years of assessment there were markets for certificates of deposit in London and in Singapore but not in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | The annual feast when the ‘ men only ’ members wearing blue sashes and white gloves marched with a band to the church for a service followed by a dull dinner in the Board inn clubroom , then in the afternoon there were sports for the whole village . |
| 7 | In the developed democracy there was pay for attending the Council , but ironically it is not attested before Thucydides ' account of how the oligarchs of 411 ( temporarily ) brought it to an end ( viii.69 ) . |
| 8 | Thus in Jaca there were allotments for the poor labourers and no agrarian destitute class ; around Saragossa the labourers had enforced a customary eight-hour day and worked in their free hours on their own plots ; but on the great estates of dry Aragon labour conditions could only be matched in Andalusia . |
| 9 | Back at Kabrit there was time for the planned reorganization . |
| 10 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 11 | In the semi-finals there were victories for Frocester from Gloucestershire … and Kington from Herefordshire … final is at Lords on Sunday week . |
| 12 | In the semi-finals there were victories for Frocester from Gloucestershire … and Kington from Herefordshire … final is at Lords on Sunday week . |
| 13 | In the rustic humour there were opportunities for poking fun at lords and masters and oppressive authority , both civil and military . |
| 14 | On two sides there were offices for the management and they can watch you and the supervisor or foreman can watch you as well . |
| 15 | Earlier this year there were calls for a public inquiry into the Government 's use of statistics and constraints on research , from the social statistics section of the RSS , from the Association of Social Research Organisations and from the Social Research Association . |
| 16 | In the support races there were doubles for Jeremy McWilliams and Scot Ian Simpson . |
| 17 | In the support races there were doubles for Jeremy McWilliams and Scot Ian Simpson . |
| 18 | No doubt there were formulae for getting rid of evil spirits , and it may be that the mysterious painted symbols written inside two cups from Knossos are spells of this kind . |
| 19 | No doubt there was room for argument as to whether in 1923 it was still possible to have a peer as Conservative Prime Minister . |
| 20 | At mass demonstrations in Baku there were calls for the Azerbaijan authorities either to reassert full sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh or to resign . |
| 21 | Under the Commonwealth there were proposals for reforming , and even abolishing , the Chancery . |